Maryam Ala Amjadi
Iranian writer, poet, literary translator, and researcher.Wednesday, October 23, 2024 4-5:30 p.m.
Meridians is hosting 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award Winner, Maryam Ala Amjadi, for a public reading and Q&A of her award-winning prose work, "The Ice Seller of Hell." Maryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian poet, writer, and City of Asylum Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute (University of Nevada, Las Vegas). "The Ice Seller of Hell" will be published in Meridians' forthcoming fall 2024 issue, "Counterpoints."
Reading of “The Ice Seller of Hell” and Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award Ceremony
Where Is the
Mouth of
That Word?
“You could hear the tanin (echo) of Sepehri’s hich (nothingness) reverberating at the same frequency with which you see Dali’s ‘The Echo of the Void’ hovering in your line of vision.
You could, and you will.
For now, all that matters is knowing (asking!) where you read from.
And as for the title we eventually chose – where is the mouth of that word?
Wherever there is one – fearless enough to speak it.”– Sampurna Chattarji
Events
MARYAM ALA AMJADI
WITH DOUG UNGER
September 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl
The Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl returns on Saturday, October 12, 2024 from 11 am to 7 pm.
The Ice Seller of Hell
2024 ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
CREATIVE WRITING AWARD
WINNER FOR PROSE