Poetry Prize winner Janine Joseph writes about her Kundiman–sponsored reading at the Library of Congress
Bushra Rehman is Poets & Writers' August Writer in Residence
Bushra Rehman’s mother says Bushra was born in an ambulance flying through the streets of Brooklyn. Her father is not so sure. Since there are no definitive records of the time of her birth, there is no real way of knowing, but it would explain a few things. Bushra is a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of poems. Now, she performs her poetry regularly in theaters and colleges around the world. Lately, she’s been spending her time flying through the streets of Brooklyn and writing an on the road adventure novel for Muslim girls.
July 23: Poets & Writers presents Word for Word at Bryant Park: Joseph O. Legaspi, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, and Samantha Thornhill
Join Poets & Writers in Bryant Park's historic outdoor Reading Room for a free poetry reading featuring
Joseph O. Legaspi, Tyehimba Jess, Patricia Spears Jones, and Samantha Thornhill.
Bryant Park Reading Room
42nd Street and Sixth Avenue
New York, NY
For details, visit: http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/wordforword.html or http://www.pw.org/content/poets_writers_at_bryant_park
Bushra Rehman is featured in Poets & Writers magazine's annual debut fiction round-up for her book Corona
Congrats, Bushra!
From Poets & Writers:
For our thirteenth annual roundup of the summer’s best debut fiction, we asked five established authors to introduce this year’s group of debut writers. Read the July/August 2013 issue of the magazine for interviews between Paul Harding and NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Russell and Bushra Rehman, Nathan Englander and Bill Cheng, Curtis Sittenfeld and Anton DiSclafani, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinelo Okparanta. But first, check out these exclusive excerpts from the debut novels and story collections.
Read an excerpt here:
http://www.pw.org/content/2013_first_fiction_sampler?article_page=2