Events for the Week of: 19-25 April 2021, from Books, Literature, and Spoken Word category

Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. His books encompass multiple genres, including the volumes of poetry Inquisition, Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; the Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award; the Fortieth Day; All One's Blue; and the cross-genre texts Bright Felon and Wind Instrument. His novels include the recently published the Secret Room: a String Quartet and:00 AMong his books of essays are the hybrid memoir Silver Road: Essays, Maps & Calligraphies and Fasting for Ramadan: Notes from a Spiritual Practice. He is also an accomplished translator (of Marguerite Duras, Sohrab Sepehri, Ananda Devi, Mahmoud Chokrollahi and others) and an editor of several anthologies and books of criticism. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities, including Oberlin College, Davidson College, St. Mary's College of California, and Naropa University.

Kazim is currently a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems entitled the Voice of Sheila Chandra and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

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Wednesday, April 21 - 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM


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Warwick’s presents Sadeqa Johnson in conversation with Janet Skeslien Charles.

Born on a plantation in Charles City, Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a relatively sheltered life. Shielded by her mother's position as the estate's medicine woman and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world.

She'd been promised freedom on her eighteenth birthday, but instead of the idyllic life she imagined with her true love, Essex Henry, Pheby is forced to leave the only home she has ever known. She unexpectedly finds herself thrust into the bowels of slavery at the infamous Devil's Half Acre, a jail in Richmond, Virginia, where the enslaved are broken, tortured, and sold every day. There, Pheby is exposed not just to her Jailer's cruelty but also to his contradictions. to survive, Pheby will have to outwit him, and she soon faces the ultimate sacrifice.

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Wednesday, April 21 - 4:00 PM

Warwick's will host Kate Quinn as she discusses her new book, the Rose Code, in conversation with Kristina McMorris. Kate Quinn is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of historical fiction. a native of Southern California, she attended Boston University, where she earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in classical voice. a lifelong history buff, she has written four novels in the Empress of Rome Saga and two books set in the Italian Renaissance before turning to the 20th century with the Alice Network, the Huntress, and the Rose Code. All have been translated into multiple languages.

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Saturday, April 24 - 11:00 AM


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