Event
"I am the beggar of the world" Event at New America NYC
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July 29, 2013 | 6:30 PM EDT
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Afghanistan: On Love and Suicide
Anonymous and spoken, landai, two-line Pashtun poems, have served for centuries as a means of self...
Join New America NYC in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on July 29 for a night of Afghan poetry reading, conversation and a short film screening with journalist Eliza Griswold and photographer Seamus Murphy.
With support from the Pulitzer Center, Murphy and Griswold collected landays—poetry by Afghan women—in Afghan refugee camps, at weddings, and over plates of pomegranates. Poetry magazine dedicated its entire June issue to the poetry, with written contributions by Griswold and photography by Murphy.
To see the full event listing and to RSVP, visit the New America NYC website.
Monday, July 29, 2013
6:30 pm
199 Lafayette Street
Suite 3B
New York, New York 10012
