Saturday June 24, 6-8 PM
Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities
64 Grand Street (between West Broadway & Wooster)
For more information: 212.219.2344 or [log in to unmask]
$8 donation, drinks will be served.
Richard Jeffrey Newman is the featured reader; he will read from his new
book, The Silence Of Men. There will also be an open mic.
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Richard Jeffrey Newman is a poet, essayist and translator. In addition to
The Silence Of Men, he has published two books of translations from
classical Persian literature, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan and
Selections from Saadi's Bustan (both from Global Scholarly Publications,
2004 and 2006 respectively). He has been publishing his work since 1988,
when the essay "His Sexuality; Her Reproductive Rights" appeared in Changing
Men magazine. Since then, his work has appeared in a wide range of journals,
including Prairie Schooner, ACM, and the Birmingham Poetry Review. As well,
his work was recently anthologized in Access Literature (Thomson Wadsworth,
2005). Currently, in addition to working on his second book of poems, he is
translating selections from the Shahnameh, the Persian national epic, and
collaborating with Professor John Moyne on a new Rumi anthology. Richard
Jeffrey Newman sits on the advisory board of The Translation Project and he
listed as a speaker with the New York Council for the Humanities. He is an
Associate Professor in the English Department at Nassau Community College in
Garden City, New York. For more information, please visit his website:
www.richardjnewman.com.
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