Center for Ethics and Writing and the Written Arts Program in collaboration with the Common Course in Carbon and the Humanities Presents
Diamonds, Paper, Sunrise: Elemental Imagination in The Thousand and One Nights
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Campus Center, Weis Cinema
10:10 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
On Thursday, February 22 at 10:10 am in Weis Cinema, Yasmine Seale will hold a talk. She will be introduced by Bard College faculty member, Elizabeth Holt. 10:10 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
Yasmine Seale’s work includes poetry, criticism, translation and visual art. Her essays on literature, art and film have appeared in Harper’s, The Nation, Paris Review, 4Columns and elsewhere. Among her translations from Arabic are The Annotated Arabian Nights (W. W. Norton), described by the New Yorker as “an electric new translation”, and Something Evergreen called Life, a collection of poems by the Sudanese writer and activist Rania Mamoun (Action Books). She is the coauthor of Agitated Air, a collaboration with Robin Moger responding to the visionary poet and metaphysician Ibn Arabi (Tenement Press). She is currently a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 10:10 am – 11:30 am EST/GMT-5
Location: Campus Center, Weis Cinema