Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali, the author of The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan, 2009), is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005), winner of Alice James Books New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books, 2005), named one of “The Best Books of 2005″ by Chronogram magazine, and Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). In the fall of 2010, the University of Michigan Press will be publishing Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence, in the Poets on Poetry Series.
He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. His work has been featured in many national journals such as Best American Poetry 2007, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat and Massachusetts Review. He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books.
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