Jena Osman & Maged Zaher - Oct. 29th, 2014

Wednesday Reading Series Jena Osman‘s books of poetry include Corporate Relations (Burning Deck Press), Public Figures (Wesleyan University Press), The Network (Fence Books), An Essay in Asterisks (Roof Books) and The Character (Beacon Press). For 12 years she co-edited the magazine Chain with Juliana Spahr, and now they co-edit the ChainLinks book series together. Osman teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at Temple University in Philadelphia. Maged Zaher is the author of IF REALITY DOESN’T WORK OUT (SplitLevel Texts, 2014); THANK YOU FOR THE WINDOW OFFICE (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012); THE REVOLUTION HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN’T CALL ME (Tinfish Press, 2012); and PORTRAIT OF THE POET AS AN ENGINEER (Pressed Wafer, 2009). His collaborative work with the Australian poet Pam Brown, FAROUT LIBRARY SOFTWARE, was published by Tinfish Press in 2007. His translations of contemporary Egyptian poetry have appeared in Jacket Magazine, Banipal, and Denver Quarterly. He has performed his work at Subtext, Bumbershoot, the Kootenay School of Writing, Evergreen State College, and The American University in Cairo. Maged is the recipient of the 2013 Stranger’s Genius award in literature.