Activities around the World (Events of the members of the Movement)

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
AVIJIT ROY (1972–2015)
murdered by Islamic fundamentalists after attending the book fair in Dhaka, February, 2015

multilingual reading

special featured poet from Wales
PETER THABIT JONES

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) * SANG-HEE KWAK (Korean) * NINO PROVENZANO (Italian, Sicilian)
MINDY RINKEWICH (Polish, Russian, Yiddish) * NAZNIN SEAMON (Bengali)
VANTZETI VASSILEV (Bulgarian), * BISSERA VIDENOV (Bulgarian)

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
"Made Possible in Part through Poets House's Literary Partner's Program"