Poets & Writers Theater
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In this bilingual reading presented virtually from three cities hosted by Poets House, Garous Abdolmalekian reads poems from his collection Lean Against This Late Hour (Penguin Books, 2020), along with Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey, who cotranslated the book from the Persian. Lean Against This Late Hour is featured in Page One in the May/June issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Garous Abdolmalekian | reading | Poets House | Lean Against This Late Hour | Penguin Books | 2020 | Page One | May/June 2020 | Idra Novey | Ahmad Nadalizadeh -
“You have to really free your mind from the word obligation.” During an event at the Center for Fiction, authors Francisco Goldman, Idra Novey, and Rivka Galchen answer questions from the audience about moving between fiction and other genres, which leads to a discussion about the importance of donuts.
Tags: panel | Center for Fiction | Rivka Galchen | Idra Novey | Francisco Goldman | Poetry | Fiction | Creative Nonfiction -
“A lot of poems for me begin in the sense of feeling annihilated in some way or another.” Idra Novey discusses her poetic beginnings at the Academy of American Poets’ 2014 Poets Forum. Her debut novel, Ways to Disappear (Little, Brown, 2016), is featured in Page One in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
Tags: Poetry | Fiction | Academy of American Poets | Page One | Little, Brown | Poets Forum | 2016 | March/April 2016 | Idra Novey | Ways to Disappear
