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Persian Arts Festival's Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night)

April 16th, 2008, 6-8pm

Every 3rd Wednesday of the month thru May '08

Bowery Poetry Club

308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker (F train to 2nd Ave)

Cover: $12 (includes 1 drink)

Co-hosted by PAF Founder Mona Kayhan and PAF Literary Arts Director, Richard Jeffrey Newman, the event includes an open mic that is open to all who would like to read their favorite Iranian poetry or their own original work in Persian or English. To sign up to read before the event, email poetry@persianartsfestival.org. This month we will celebrate a major new anthology of poetry, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond, which was published by Norton in April 2008. Ravi Shankar, one of the editors of the anthology, will be with us to share poems from the anthology, which includes Simin Behbahani, Forugh Farrokhzad, Esmail Khoi, Nader Naderpour, Sohrab Sepehri, Ahmad Shamlu, among others. There is even a sampling of Iranian-American poets such as Katayoon Zandvakili, Partow Nooriala, and Sholeh Wolpe. Ravi will also talk about the experience of putting the anthology together and how it is meant to share the dialog that is going on between the different cultures represented in the book.

For more information, visit PAF online at www.persianartsfestival.org .

From: Mona/Persian Arts Festival