New Third World Reading Series #2

Join us for the second (virtual) convening of the New Third World Reading Series ? Sunday, February 27 at 3pm Eastern.

Featuring Sara Elkamel, Hazem Fahmy, Abby Mengesha, Adeeba Shahid Talukder, Haolun Xu, and Éléonore Weill – MC'ed by Malvika Jolly!

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Due to the ongoing surge in Omicron cases across NYC, this is a virtual event and will be hosted on Zoom. RSVP below to receive the Zoom link and reminder emails ahead of the event! ?

This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Poet and journalist living between Cairo and New York City, Sara Elkamel holds an MA in arts journalism from Columbia University and is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at New York University, where she teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing Program. Elkamel’s poems have appeared in The Common, Michigan Quarterly Review, Four Way Review, The Boiler, Memorious, wildness, Nimrod International Journal, The Rumpus, Jet Fuel Review, and more. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2020, Best of the Net 2020, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me, and 20.35 Africa: Vol. 2. She was named a 2020 Gregory Djanikian Scholar by The Adroit Journal, and a finalist in Narrative Magazine's 30 Below Contest in the same year. Her debut chapbook was published by the African Poetry Book Fund & Akashic Books in September 2021.

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Image courtesy of Sima Diab.

Writer and critic from Cairo, Hazem Fahmy runs the interview series on Substack. His debut chapbook, won the 2017 Diode Editions Contest. His second chapbook, Waiting for Frank Ocean in Cairo is forthcoming from Half-Mystic Press in 2022. A Kundiman and Watering Hole Fellow, his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2020, AAWW, The Boston Review, and Prairie Schooner. His criticism has appeared or is forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review of Books, Mubi Notebook, Reverse Shot, and Mizna.

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Writer and editor from Addis Ababa, Abigail Mengesha is a recipient of the George Harmon Coxe Award for Poetry and currently a Jan Gabrial Fellow at New York University where she is an MFA candidate in Poetry and teaches a first-year writing course. Previously an editor for the Washington Square Review and Addis Foto Fest, her writing has appeared in Kitsch magazine, and her performances featured at Cornell University and elsewhere.

Pakistani American poet, singer, and translator of Urdu and Persian poetry, Adeeba Shahid Talukder is the author of the full-length collection (Tupelo Press, 2020), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She is also the author of the chapbook (Glass Poetry Press, 2018). Her poetry has appeared in Poem-A-Day, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and The Margins, and her translations in PBS Frontline and Words Without Borders. Talukder holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an Emerging Poets fellowship from Poets House.

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Chinese American poet, writer, and filmmaker based in New Jersey, Haolun Xu is the author of the debut chapbook , published by New Delta Review in November 2021 and placed Runner-Up in the 2021 Chapbook Contest, selected by Brandon Shimoda. Xu’s writing has appeared in literary journals such as Electric Literature, Gulf Coast, Narrative Magazine, Witness, jubilat, Meridian, and more. Xu's work has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize, and also for Best Of The Net. Director of the short film Winter Prayer (2021) and co-writer of the short film In Passing (2021), directed by Ryan Quon, Xu served as a 2021 Artist-In-Residence for Centrum and is a 2021 Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Born in Nanning, China, he immigrated to the United States in 1999 and holds a B.A. in English/Political Science from Rutgers University.

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French-American vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Éléonore Weill creates and performs soulful interpretations of Klezmer, Yiddish, French, Occitane music as well as original compositions, poems and improvisations. In addition to her acclaimed socially-conscious Yiddish music ensemble Tsibele, she performs and records internationally in a variety of ensembles, from klezmer to Contemporary music and Occitane folk Music. She also composed and played for Theater companies such as Doppelskope, Great Small Works and Bread and Puppets and performs at leading international festivals including Yiddish New York, the Ashkenaz Festival (Toronto), Kleztival (São Paulo), and KlezKanada (Quebec) on wooden flutes, piano, accordion, hurdy-gurdy, and as a lead singer.

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Artist, writer, and emergent translator Malvika Jolly lives on occupied Munsee, Lenape, and Wappinger land in New York City. Her essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in Chicago magazine, The Margins, and the South Side Weekly, where she is a regular contributor focusing on visual culture and community history. From 2020–2021, she worked at the Brooklyn Rail as the Special Projects Associate where she worked on the New Social Environment and curated the Radical Poetry Reading series. She curates the New Third World, and is currently wandering the Himalayan foothills.

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