Hyderabad|India|January'2010: The U.S. Consulate General, Hyderabad, in cooperation with the Department of English, University of Hyderabad and Osmania University Center for International Programs to host poet Meena Alexander at the Administrative Staff College of India, on January 22, 2010. An internationally acclaimed poet and resident at the City University of New York, Professor Meena Alexander will read a selection of her poetry.

Meena Alexander is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. Her poems and prose works have been widely anthologized and translated. Her new collection of poetry is Quickly Changing River. Her book of essays Poetics of Dislocation was recently published under the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry series. Her works of poetry include Stone Roots; House of a Thousand Doors; River and Bridge; Illiterate Heart (winner of the PEN Open Book Award); Raw Silk; and two chapbooks, each a single long poem: The Storm: A Poem in Five Parts, and Night-Scene, the Garden.

She is the editor of Indian Love Poems; and the author of the memoir Fault Lines (chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year 1993). She has also published two scholarly works, one of which is Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Shelley; and two novels, one of which is Nampally Road.

She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, Rockefeller, Arts Council of England, and other fellowships.

Reachout's News Bureau
January' 2010