Please join John Mikhail Asfour at Historic Joy Kogawa House on Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 till 9:00pm, for readings from his poetry collection, Blindfold. John Asfour served as our inaugural writer-in-residence in 2009, and during his three-month residency he completed this moving collection of poems on the distance surrounding disability. The poems were published in 2011 by McGill-Queens University Press and were recently selected to tour North America for the Association of American University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.
“Asfour provides readers with a deeply moving glimpse into the frustrations and disorientation of physical loss, as well as the heroic effort to find the language and metaphors that will translate his experience into poetry.”
— Harold Heft, The Montreal Gazette
John Mikhail Asfour is a translator and former professor of literature. The editor of the landmark anthology When the Words Burn: An Anthology of Modern Arabic Poetry, he has written four previous books of poems.
This event takes place at Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, on Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 to 9:00pm. Admission by donation, but space is limited. To reserve a seat, please RSVP to kogawahouse@yahoo.ca.