Bushra Rehman : Reading of Corona + Writing Workshop

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21st AT 6PM
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Bushra Rehman (http://www.bushrarehman.com/) was a vagabond poet who traveled for years with nothing more than a greyhound ticket and a book bag full of poems. Now, she performs her poetry regularly in theaters and colleges around the world. Lately, she’s been spending her time flying through the streets of Brooklyn and writing an on the road adventure novel for Muslim girls. She will read from her first novel, Corona, a dark comedy about a Pakistani woman growing up in Corona, Queens, a book noted among this year’s Best Debut Fiction by Poets & Writers.

Following the reading, she will give a talk and facilitate a workshop on writing about our life stories. In this workshop, we will employ techniques of poetry and fiction to create works of memoir and autobiographical fiction. We will draw upon both the truths and lies of our experience because our lives are too rich not to write about and our imaginations are too strong to ignore. Writers at all levels of experience are welcome.

Rehman co-edited the anthology Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism which was included in Ms. Magazine’s 100 Best Non-Fiction Books of All Time. Her writing has been featured in numerous anthologies and on BBC Radio 4, WNYC, and KPFA and in Poets & Writers, The New York Times, India Currents, Crab Orchard Review, Sepia Mutiny, Color Lines, The Feminist Wire, andMizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America.

Co-sponsored by Cornell Women’s Resource Center and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program | Cornell University