Kazim Ali - February 24, 2011

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UA Poetry Center, UA Center for Middle Eastern Studies

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UA Poetry Center
Kazim Ali

Kazim Ali reads work in several genres, including excerpts from Orange Alert, a collection of essays; The Disappearance of Seth, a novel; and Bright Felon, a memoir; as well as published and new poems. He ends by performing a poem, "Queer Ishmael," composed on the spot. This reading was given alongside Ana Bozicevic as part of the Next Word in Poetry series.

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Introduction
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by Drew Krewer

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"Gallery"
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Ali, Kazim. The Far Mosque. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.

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"Carlisle"
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Ali, Kazim. Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009.

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"Dear Rumi"
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Ali, Kazim. The Far Mosque. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2005.

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Excerpt from The Disappearance of Seth
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Ali, Kazim. The Disappearance of Seth. Wilkes-Barre, PA: Etruscan Press, 2009.

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"Dear Shams"
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Ali, Kazim. "Dear Shams." The American Poetry Review 39.1 (January/February 2010): 60.

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"Autobiography 2" and "Write Something on My Wall: Body, Identity, and Poetry"
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Ali, Kazim. "Autobiography 2." Diode 2.1 (Fall 2008).Ali, Kazim. Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art, and the Architecture of Silence. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010.

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"Texting Ishmael"
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Unpublished (as of 3/4/2011).

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"Queer Ishmael"
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Composed extemporaneously.

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Unpublished (as of 3/4/2011).

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Question and Answer Session
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with Ana Bozicevic

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Kazim Ali
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Cybele Knowles
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