Alan Gilbert and Porochista Khakpour Read at Wesleyan University

Writing at
Wesleyan presents

Author ALAN GILBERT  

And author POROCHISTA KHAKPOUR

Wednesday, February
5th, 2014

Russell House,
350 High Street, Middletown, CT

8 P.M.

Alan Gilbert is the author of two books
of poetry, The Treatment of Monuments (SplitLevel Texts, 2013) and Late
in the Antenna Fields (Futurepoem, 2012), as well as a collection of
essays, articles, and reviews entitled Another Future: Poetry and Art in a
Postmodern Twilight (Wesleyan University Press, 2006). He is a visiting writer in the English Department at Wesleyan.

Porochista Khakpour is the author of the
novel, Sons and Other Flammable Objects, a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Her new novel, The Last
Illusion, will be published this spring. Her essays have appeared in Harper’s, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Daily Beast, the Village Voice, Slate, and Salon,
and she is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship.
This semester she is a visiting writer in the English Department at Wesleyan.

Free and open to the public.

Reception and book signing
to follow the reading.

For more information, please
call 860.685.3448 or visit http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/community/writing-events.html.