September 15, 2024 – Alamgir Hashmi and Jennifer Jean

August 27, 2024

Alamgir Hashmi is the author of twelve books of poetry and numerous volumes of literary criticism. His poetry has appeared widely in anthologies and journals, including Poetry Review, New Letters, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Oxford Poetry, Edinburgh Review, The New Quarterly, Berkeley Poetry Review, Vallum, The Malahat Review, New Statesman, Chicago Review, Contemporary Review, Postmodern Culture, Paris Voices, and Connecticut Review. His latest collection, The Shorter Poems 1993-2023 (Greenwich Exchange), was published in London earlier this year. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a Rockefeller Fellow, he has won high honors and awards for his work, which has been translated into several European and Asian languages. As the April 2024 issue of Slant Forum notes, “his work drew high praise from fellow poets Richard Wilbur, Karl Shapiro, Anthony Hecht, Muriel Rukeyser, Donald Hall, and William Stafford,”* as well as from Jon Silkin and Ted Hughes in Great Britain. He has taught as a university professor in North America, Europe, and Asia. He has also served as a judge of many literary awards, such as the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. He is Founding President of The Literature Podium: An Independent Society for Literature and the Arts.

Jennifer Jean’s poetry collections include VOZ, Object Lesson, and The Fool. Her resource book is Object Lesson: a Guide to Writing Poetry. Her forthcoming, bilingual poetry collection Where Do You Live? أين تعيش؟  was co-written and co-translated with Iraqi poet Dr. Hanaa Ahmed. As well, she’s edited the forthcoming anthology Other Paths for Shahrazad: a Bilingual Anthology of Poetry by Arab Women. Her poems, prose, and co-translations appear in POETRY, Rattle Magazine, The Common, the Los Angeles Review, Terrain, and On the Seawall. She’s received honors, residencies, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the Academy of American Poets, the Mass Cultural Council, DISQUIET, and the Women’s Federation for World Peace. Jennifer is an organizer for the artist collective Her Story Is, a core faculty member at Solstice MFA, and the senior program manager of 24 PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center’s online writing program.