Inner Birds, Outer Cages: Freeing Poetry from the Tyranny of Language
Join us at T2F for a spoken word performance by Sascha A. Akhtar
Saturday, 24th April 2010 | 6:30 pm
Sascha Aurora Akhtar was born and educated in Pakistan. She earned a BA in Liberal Arts from Bennington College where she studied photography, filmmaking and multimedia installation art. In 2003, she was awarded a fellowship to attend the MFA Creative Writing Programme at UMass, Amherst.
Sascha’s debut poetry collection, “The Grimoire of Grimalkin” was published by Salt in 2008. She spends her time in London and Pakistan and is the co-producer of the successful “La Langoustine Est Morte” reading series along with Trinidadian poet Anthony Joseph. Her work appears in the Shearsman anthology on UK women’s poetries, “Infinite Difference.” A 2008 article in the Guardian, “The New Beats”, named Akhtar one of the top twelve poets to watch. She also works as a literary reviewer and arts journalist and is the first Pakistani woman writing in English to be published in the Western “avant garde” tradition.
More about Sascha: http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/smp/9781844715343.htm
After Sascha’s performance, the floor will be opened up to poets and writers. 10 minutes each!
Date: Saturday, 24th April, 2010
Time: 6:30 pm
Minimum Donation: Anything you like. Please support our vision of intellectual poverty alleviation by donating generously.
Venue: PeaceNiche | T2F
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Seats are limited and will be available on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. No reservations.
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