ArteEast is thrilled to co-presents a night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori
Date: Tuesday, October 22 · 7:30 – 9pm EDT
Location: Bowery Poetry Club
Address: 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012
Tickets: $20
A night of words and music featuring poetry by Rumi with acclaimed translator Haleh Liza Gafori. Drawing from her books GOLD, and the upcoming volume WATER (New York Review Books, 2022 and 2025), she’ll weave translations with songs, chants, stories, lightning, and love.
Haleh Liza Gafori is a translator, vocalist, poet, composer, and performance artist of Iranian descent. Her acclaimed book, GOLD (New York Review Books Classics, 2022), features her translations of poems by Rumi, the 13th century sage and mystic. Her second volume of translations, WATER, will be released in 2025, also by New York Review Books. Gafori is a recipient of the MacDowell fellowship and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. Gafori performs and lectures across the country at universities and venues including Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Lincoln Center, the Academy of American Poets online seminars, Joe’s Pub, and Le Poisson Rouge. Her work has been published by Columbia University Press, Harvard Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Literary Hub and elsewhere.
