I’ll be giving a reading tomorrow at Cal Poly Pomona. Here are details:
12:00 PM
Lecture and Reading
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona, California
If you live in the area, come on by. The event is free and open to the public.
This week, Georgetown University and the Moroccan Embassy are co-organizing a conference in Washington, D.C. on “Morocco: Recent Trends and Future Prospects.” I will be doing a panel on Moroccan literature with Abdelfettah Kilito and Mokhtar Gambou on Thursday afternoon. You can view the schedule here and here. If you live in the area, do come by and say hello. The event is open to the public.
I’ll be on a panel on literature and immigration tonight at Loyola Marymount University here in Los Angeles. Do come and say hello.
I am happy to report that Moroccan publishing house Le Fennec is issuing a French-language edition of my book for the local market.
De L’espoir will be distributed in bookstores throughout Morocco at the very modest price of 50 dirhams. How cool is that?
I am in Portland today, at the invitation of a local high school, to give a reading from Hope. Driving in from the airport last night, I cried nearly all the way home. The city is so beautiful, so green, so expansive. (Could it be that a condition of my nomadic life is that I always pine for the place I have just left?) After having dinner with my sister, I hurried to Powell’s to browse for books. I found a rare, bilingual edition of al-Mutanabbi’s poems, which I had been eyeing for some time now, and I also replaced a couple of essential books that got damaged when they were shipped from Morocco last summer. More later.
Someone asked me how come I’m on the road so much this fall when I’m supposed to be teaching creative writing at UC Riverside. Short answer: I asked for (and received) a course reduction in the fall, so I will not be unleashed onto students until the winter quarter. Poor things.