[New York]

Samira Negrouche with Anna Moschovakis
December 2, 2015, 6:00 pm
at Columbia University

reading alongside and in conversation with Samira Negrouche​, Pierre Joris and Omar Berrada for Nomad Crossroads: Algerian Poetry Now at Columbia University (Buell Hall, 2nd floor). Standing at the crossroads of several languages and literary traditions, contemporary North African poetry is little known in the US despite its vitality, to which attests the recently published University of California Book of North African Literature (ed. Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour). This event will give a taste of it in the company of one of its most brilliant practitioners. Visiting from Algiers, Samira Negrouche will read a selection of her poems, with English translations by Anna Moschovakis. She will also engage in a conversation with Pierre Joris and Omar Berrada, on her work and on the contemporary poetic landscape in Algeria and the Maghreb. More info here