Maryam Ala Amjadi: A Reading + Conversation

Please join us for a reading with Maryam Ala Amjadi. Following the reading, she will be in conversation with novelist and UNLV professor Doug Unger.

Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian poet, translator, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections, a poetry chapbook, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems into Persian. Her recent book, Where Is the Mouth of That Word? (Selected Poems), was published by Poetrywala in November 2022. Ala Amjadi received the ‘Young Generation Poet’ Prize in the first Yinchuan International Poetry Festival, China (2011), and was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program, University of Iowa (2008). She has worked as a translator at the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) and was previously a writer for the Tehran Times Daily, where she founded and wrote a weekly page dedicated to Iranian culture and society. In 2017, she earned a joint PhD degree in literary and cultural studies as an Erasmus Mundus fellow from Kent (UK) and Porto (Portugal) universities. Ala Amjadi’s poems and translations of contemporary Iranian poets have been anthologized internationally and appeared in publications such as the Poet Lore, Atlanta Review, Weeping Willow Books, and The Mongrel Book of Voices. Her poems have been translated into Arabic, Albanian, Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Kannada, Marathi, Romanian, and Spanish.

Parking/getting there: Parking on UNLV’s campus is free and open to all after 7pm; “reserved” parking spots are enforced 24 hours a day, but you may park in any “staff,” “student,” or paid spots. To find the Rogers Literature & Law Building, please turn onto East Harmon Ave and take it as far as you can into campus. We encourage you to park in Lot I or Lot J as they’re closest to our building. 

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This City of Asylum fellowship is supported by THE ELEANOR KAGI FOUNDATION, A LYNN M. BENNETT LEGACY.