Nathalie Handal

Poet in Andalucia (University of Pittsburg Press)

PEN Center USA and Skylight Books present internationally acclaimed poet Nathalie Handal, reading from her new collection, Poet in Andalucia.  Handal's book revisits Federico Garcia Lorca's classic collection Poet in New York by examining Handal's own journey through Spain. "Poems of depth and weight and the sorrowing song of longing and resolve." --Alice Walker "If there is such a thing as a Renaissance figure among younger poets writing in America, that person is Nathalie Handal." --Ed Ochester

Nathalie Handal is an award-winning poet, playwright, and editor. Her poetry collections include, The NeverField; The Lives of Rain, shortlisted for The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the recipient of the Menada Literary Award; and Love and Strange Horses (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010), winner of the Gold Medal Independent Publisher Book Award 2011, and an Honorable Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival and the New England Book Festival. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, such as, The Guardian, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetrywales, and Ploughshares; and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. She has read her poetry worldwide, and has been featured on PBS The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR Radio as well as The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, Mail & Guardian, The Jordan Times and Il Piccolo. She has been involved either as a writer, director or producer in over twenty theatrical or film productions worldwide, most recently her work was produced at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bush Theatre, and Westminster Abbey in London. She is currently a professor at Columbia University and part of the Low-Residency MFA Faculty at Sierra Nevada College.

THIS EVENT WAS RECORDED LIVE AT SKYLIGHT BOOKS SEPTEMBER 8, 2012.