October 30, 2019

Nathalie Handal: An Evening of Poetry

by Lana Barkawi | in Literary

It’s with startling force that Handal builds an architecture for the wanderer.
—Washington Independent Review of Books

Join Mizna for a special reading from acclaimed Palestinian poet Nathalie Handal. To kick off a weekend of celebrations marking Mizna’s twentieth anniversary, Handal will read from her latest poetry collection, Life in a Country Album, and will sign books after the reading.

Where: Moon Palace Books | 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Mpls  55406

When: Friday, November 1, 2019, 7pm

Mizna has had a long relationship with Handal, having her writing in the very first issue of our literary journal in 1999. Join us for this special reading and then on Saturday, continue the celebration and support at Mizna’s 20th Anniversary Benefit with Nathalie Handal.

This reading is presented in partnership with Carleton College and with the University of Minnesota’s Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at ICGC and the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota Colloquium Series.

NATHALIE HANDAL was raised in Latin America, France and the Middle East, and educated in Asia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Her recent poetry books include Life in a Country Album (fall 2019), praised by Claire Messud as a book that “illuminates the luxuriance and longing of deracination—a contemporary Orpheus”; the flash collection The Republics, winner of the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing, and the Arab American Book Award; Poet in Andalucía; and Love and Strange Horses, winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award. She is the author of eight plays, editor of two anthologies, and her essays and creative nonfiction have appeared in Mizna, Vanity Fair, Guernica Magazine, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Nation, the Irish Times, among others. Handal is the recipient of awards from The Lannan Foundation, PEN Foundation, Centro Andaluz de las Letras, Fondazione di Venezia, among others. Her work brings her to audiences globally. She is a professor at Columbia University, and writes the literary travel column “The City and the Writer” for Words without Borders magazine.