Cover Art by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

Shabdaguchha

in cooperation with

Cross-Cultural Communications

presents

“BENGALI INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL”

POETS HOUSE

10 River Terrace, NYC 10282

TeL 212/431-7920

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2:00-5:30 PM

hosted by

Hassanal Abdullah & Stanley H. Barkan

includes

special reading of Hassanal Abdullah’s new forthcoming book

UNDER THE THIN LAYERS OF LIGHT

(Cross-Cultural Communications, 2015)

Dedicated to Bangladesh-born US citizen, Freethinker, and Founder of mukto-mona.com

AVJIT ROY(1972–2015)

murdered by Islamic fundamentalists after attending the book fair in Dhaka, February, 2015

multilingual reading

FUAD ATTAL (Arabic) * FARUQUE AZAM (Bengali)* HONG AI BAI (Chinese, Korean)

PURABI BASU (Bengali) * SULTAN CATTO (Turkish) * MIA BARKAN CLARKE (English)

JYOTIMOY DATTA (Bengali) * JYOTIPRAKASH DATTA (Bengali) * MINAKSHI DATTA (Bengali)

JOAN DIGBY (English) * JOHN DIGBY (English) * CHARLES FISHMAN (English)

MIKE GRAVES (English) * PETER THABIT JONES (English, from Wales)

SANG-HEE KWAK (Korean) * NINO PROVENZANO (Italian, Sicilian)

MINDY RINKEWICH (Polish, Russian, Yiddish) * NAZNIN SEAMON (Bengali)

also

Book and Art & Photography Exhibit

Gianpiero Actis, Helen Bar-Lev, Lidia Chiarelli, Adel Gorgy, Carolyn Mary Kleefeld, Mark Polyakov, Marsha Solomon

Refreshments

Free – Donations welcome

Entouré de cette lumière éblouissante, on trouve sa palette bien pauvre; l’art voudrait des tonnes d’or et de diamants.

Bordighera, 25 mars 1884

Claude Monet: “Parole a colori” – Lettere da Bordighera (gennaio-aprile 1884)

a cura di Silvia Alborno, postfazione Fulvio Cervini

Philobiblon edizioni , Ventimiglia 2009

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