MEENA ALEXANDER will be reading from her new book of poems, Birthplace with Buried Stones (TriQuartlery Books/Northwestern University Press, 2013). She is an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar, and writer. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books of poetry include Birthplace with Buried Stones (2013), Quickly Changing River (2008), Raw Silk(2004), and the PEN Open Book Award-winning Illiterate Heart (2002). She is the author of the book of essays Poetics of Dislocation and the critically acclaimed memoir Fault Lines. She serves as a Poet Advisor to The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective.