Postponed: Kaveh Bassiri Poetry Reading

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED. THE NEW DATE WILL BE ADDED TO THE CALENDAR ASAP.

As part of UTulsa’s NEH seminar, “Poetics of Place,” the Department of English & Creative Writing welcomes poet Kaveh Bassiri for a reading and discussion of his work. Bassiri is an Iranian-American writer and translator, who was born in Tehran and came to United States as a teenager. He has an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Arkansas. He will talk about how his poetry translates not just one language to another but also his experience of the many places he has lived during his life.

Bassiri is the author of two chapbooks, “99 Names of Exile” (2019), winner of the Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and “Elementary English” (2020), winner of Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. As a translator, Bassiri has won the Witter Bynner Poetry Translation Residency and a 2019 translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Bassiri is the recipient of a 2022-23 Tulsa Artist Fellowship, and is an adjunct professor at The University of Tulsa. His poems and translations can be found in Chicago Review, The Common, Denver Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Copper Nickel, Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Nimrod International Journal, The Cincinnati Review, and Shenandoah.

The reading is free and open to the public. Please call 918-631-2399 for more details as well as accommodation information.