April News

PUBLICATIONS

Vikas Menon's poem "“Prayer for the Rending” appears in New Delta Review this month.

Several of Dilruba Ahmed's new poems appear online at Diode
while a multimedia version of my poem, "Dhaka Dust," is online in Born Magazine

An interview with Pireeni Sundaralingam appears in the April issue of World Literature Today

W.W.Norton's collected works of Agha Shahid Ali, The Veiled Suite (published Feb 2009) has been continuing to garner critical acclaim. See Book Forum's review.

Shilpa Agarwal's first novel "Haunting Bombay" just came out with Soho Press. Shilpa is currently on book tour on the West Coast.

EVENTS

Ro Gunetilleke will be reading as part of the annual Los Angeles, ALOUD event for poets in the LA area, at the Mark Taper Auditorium at the L.A. Central Library, 524 S Flower Street,
7:00pm, Wednesday April 29, 2009
www.aloudla.org

Pireeni Sundaralingam will be reading with Jane Hirshfield and Phillip Schultz at Cuirt: The Galway International Festival of Literature.
Galway Theatre, Thursday 23 April, 8.30pm.

Representing the U.C.Berkeley English Department, Swati Rana will be presenting her paper "“Ameen Rihani's New World Nativity" as part of the
Transnational American Studies Working Group at , April 17, 2009
5-7:00 pm at 306 Wheeler Auditorium, U.C.Berkeley, BERKELEY, CA