A Reading with Zain Khalid and Kevin Holden

On Thursday, May 4 at 5:30 pm in the László Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium, Reem-Kayden Center (RKC), writers Zain Khalid and Kevin Holden will read from their work. Introduced by Bard faculty member Benjamin Hale, and followed by a Q&A, the reading is free and open to the public.

Zain Khalid’s writing has appeared in the New Yorker, n+1, the Believer, Astra Magazine, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and elsewhere. His debut novel, Brother Alive (Grove Atlantic, 2022), is a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book in any genre, and was named a best book of 2022 by Library Journal and other outlets. He is also the fiction editor at The Drift.

Kevin Holden is a poet, critic, and translator. He is the author of seven books and chapbooks of poetry, including Pink Noise (Nightboat Books, 2023), Solar (Fence Books, 2016), which won the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and Birch (Ahsahta Press, 2015), which won the Ahsahta Chapbook Award. His translations of poetry from French, German, and Russian have also been published, and he has recently completed a translation of Jean Daive’s L’Énonciateur Des Extrêmes, forthcoming from Black Square Editions. He has taught as a visiting fellow at Bard College and is currently the writer-in-residence of Kirkland House at Harvard and a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Benjamin Hale is the author of the novel The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (Twelve, 2011) and the collection The Fat Artist and Other Stories (Simon & Schuster, 2016). He has received the Bard Fiction Prize, a Michener-Copernicus Award, and nominations for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. His writing has appeared, among other places, in Conjunctions, Harper's Magazine, the Paris Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and has been anthologized in Best American Science and Nature Writing.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail mbrien@bard.edu.

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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