AWP Booklaunch Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 3:30 pm

Meena Alexander: Quickly Changing River

Join Northwestern University Press in the launch of

Meena Alexander’s newest collection of poetry

AWP Annual Conference, Hilton New York

1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York

Exhibit Hall -2nd Floor

Northwestern University Press Booth B18





February 14th, 2008 5:30 pm.

Meena Alexander reading from Quickly Changing River

Keystone Room of East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania

200 Prospect St., East Stroudsburg, PA 18301

contact Cynthia Leenerts cleenerts@po-box.esu.edu

February 20th, 7pm

A Evening of Poetry

Meena Alexander reading from Quickly Changing River

(With words of introduction by Jean Valentine)

Book Culture

536 W. 112th Street New York, NY 10025

(Between Broadway and Amsterdam)

p 212.865.1588





February 22, 4-6pm

Quickly Changing River

Meena Alexander speaks with Wayne Koestenbaum

about her new book of poems and about poetics, migration and memory.

Ph.D.Program in English, Friday Forum

4th floor English Department Lounge (room 4406)

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

Friday February 29th, 7-9pm

Meena Alexander: Quickly Changing River

Reading and discussion moderated by Sukhdev Sandhu

Kimmel Center for University Life

60 Washington Square South, 4th Floor

Rooms 405-406

RSVP by February 27, Wednesday to apa.rsvp@nyu.edu

or 212-992-9653. For more information or to rsvp online, visit www.apa.nyu.edu.

Thursday, March 6, 7:30 pm

Third Annual Asian American/African American Poetry Reading

Cosponsored by

Cave Canem

@ The Asian American Writers Workshop

16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor

(between Broadway & 5th Avenue)

New York City

March 20th 4-6pm

`Writing Across Borders’

Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Jessica Hagedorn

Moderated by Harold Augenbraum

Elebash Recital Hall

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016

March 26, 2008, 7pm

Panel Presentation followed by Reading and Book Launch

Meena Alexander Quickly Changing River

At the international conference: `Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights in Postcolonial Cultures’ European Association of Commonwealth Literatures

Venice, Italy

April 5th 2008

Plenary Speaker

(Presentation and Reading)

`Why Study Women’s Poetry’

A One-Day Conference

at St. Francis College

180 Remsen Street Brooklyn, New York

Contact: Wendy Galgan

wgalgan@stfranciscollege.edu

718-489-3441