Solmaz Sharif
Wednesday, March 7, 2018, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Solmaz Sharif, author of Look (Graywolf Press, 2016) and a National Book Award finalist, reads from her poetry and essays. "In Sharif's rendering, Look is at once a command to see and to grieve the people these words describe — and also a means of implicating the reader in the violence delivered upon these people." — The New York Times Book Review. Free.
Location:
Humanities Building, Room 587
Directions:
Sponsor:
Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, The Poetry Center
Contact:
Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies
E-mail:
Phone:
415-338-1500
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Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from New York University and University of California, Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People. Her work has appeared in the New Republic, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Granta and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Sharif has been recognized with a “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Prize, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship. She received a 2016 Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. A former Stegner Fellow, Sharif is a lecturer at Stanford University.
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