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Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003
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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"PhillyTalks #11"
Featuring Ammiel Alcalay, Tom Mandel

KWH, University of Pennsylvania | Thursday, March 05, 1998; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Louis Cabri
PhillyTalks Series



Project Website (with 94 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11084/
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Ammiel Alcalay is a writer, translator & poet living in New York City. He has published one book of poetry, the cairo notebooks (Singing Horse Press, 1993). He has also published a critical work from Minnesota Press titled After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture, a work which looks at the cross-influences of Herbraic and Arabic literature.

Tom Mandel is the author of 10 books of poetry, including Ency (Tuumba, 1978), a foundational work in the early language poetry movement, Realism (Burning Deck, 1991), Letters of the Law (Sun & Moon 1994) and Prospect of Release (Chax, 1996). He attended the University of Chicago and currently lives in Washington, D.C.