Authors on Exile
Tue, Jan 21
|Lansing
Join us for an evening of readings on the theme of "Exile". Featuring Shastri Akella, Samiya Bashir, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. Co-produced with MSU RCAH Poetry Center and WRAC, with special thanks to Michael Copperman. 6:30 doors, 7PM reading.
Time & Location
Jan 21, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Lansing, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910, USA
About The Event
Join us for an evening of readings on the theme of "Exile". Featuring Shastri Akella, Samiya Bashir, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan. Co-produced by MSU Residential College in Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry and Writing, Rhetoric and Cultures Program, with special thanks to Michael Copperman.
6:30 doors, 7PM reading.
Shastri Akella's debut novel, The Sea Elephants, was published in 2023 by Flatiron Books (USA) and Penguin (India). They were a winner of the 2023 BLR Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, the 2024 Black Warrior Review Summer Contest and the 2024 William Faulkner Short Story Contest. Their story was selected for the 2024 Best American Short Stories anthology. They teach creative writing at Michigan State University.
Samiya Bashir, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, is a poet, writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poet whose solo and collaborative work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from…