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Impossible Grace: Jerusalem Poems
Impossible Grace: Jerusalem Poems (2012) Summary of Impossible Grace A handmade limited edition including the poem “Impossible Grace” in Meena Alexander’s handwriting, translated into Arabic by Zahra...
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“Impossible Grace” Inspires First Al-Quds Composition Award
“Impossible Grace” Inspires First Al-Quds Composition Award “Impossible Grace,” a poem written by Distinguished Professor Meena Alexander (English, Women’s Studies Certificate Program), has inspired...
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Acqua Alta: Jan Sandström and Meena Alexander
Detail from “The Flood: Mosaic in Basilica di San Marco, Venice Acqua Alta: Jan Sandström and Meena Alexander Premiere Performance February 8, 2012 Lulea Domchurch, Sweden Download the Acqua Alta...
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Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here (2/20/2013)
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Reading by Meena Alexander from Al-Mtanabbi Starts Here, Feb. 20, 2013 at Harvard Bookstore Below are pictures and text from the collaboration between Jesseca Ferguson...
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Birthplace with Buried Stones
Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013) Summary of Birthplace with Buried Stones With their intense lyricism, Alexander’s poems convey the fragmented experience of the traveler, for whom home is both...
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Jerusalem Poems from Birthplace with Buried Stones
Jerusalem Poems is a collection of seven poems included in Meena Alexander’s book of poems Birthplace with Buried Stones. Alexander, Meena. “Jerusalem Poems.” Birthplace with Buried Stones. Evanston:...
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Bright Passage (India Quarterly, 2014)
Bright Passage I. Grandmother’s sari, freckles of gold poured into silk, Koil’s cry, scrap of khadi grandfather spun, I pluck all this from my suitcase — its buckles dented, zipper torn. Also pictures...
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Digital Photo Collage: Nell Painter & Meena Alexander (2014)
Digital Photo Collage: Nell Painter and Meena Alexander These images are exhibited at “In Site: The Creative Process in Plain View,” Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University (May – July 2014) The...
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Atmospheric Embroidery
Atmospheric Embroidery (Hachette India, 2015) From the Author of Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award), a brilliant new collection of poems treading themes: of migration, war,...
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Shimla: A Poem Cycle
Shimla (2012) Summary of Shimla “For a month in the summer of 2010 I lived in Shimla, in the old Viceregal Lodge. I had a suite of rooms, with a terrace that looked out onto the Himalayas. I was...
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