Ishmael Reed will receive the 2016 Career Prize from the “Premio Alberto Dubito di Poesia e Poesia con musica” (“Alberto Dubito Award for Poetry and Music Poetry”), in Venice, Italy on May 19th, 2016 at the University of Ca' Foscari in Venice, The prize is named for Alberto Dubito (a.k.a. Alberto Feltrin), who was a young poet, performer, photographer and street artist who died three years ago, at the age of twenty. In addition to the award ceremonies in Venice, Reed will participate in readings as part of a Festival of Poetry in Treviso (May 20th) and Vincenza (May 21).
Events
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Date:Thu, 19 May 2016Location:University of Ca'Foscari
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Date:Wed, 03 Jun 2015 to Fri, 05 Jun 2015
Hangzhou, China
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Date:Mon, 01 Jun 2015 to Tue, 02 Jun 2015
Wuhan, China.
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Date:Thu, 28 May 2015 to Sun, 31 May 2015
International Conference: "Literature and Transnational Studies," Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, China.
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Date:Thu, 16 Apr 2015 to Sun, 19 Apr 2015
SF JAZZ Poetry Festival, "The Cities Speak of Poetry," four nights of poetry from San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley at the Joe Henderson Lab at the SF JAZZ Center, San Francisco.
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Date:Thu, 26 Mar 2015 to Sat, 28 Mar 2015
International Conference: "American Multiculturalism In Context," Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse, France, and including March 27 reading and concert at Jazz School campus in Basel, Switzerland.
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Date:Tue, 24 Mar 2015
Reading at Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg, Germany
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Date:Sat, 07 Mar 2015
SAM Conference at Sheridan Grand Hotel, Sacramento, California
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Date:Thu, 05 Mar 2015
Poetry Reading and SF Bay area book launch of "Courtesans of Flounder Hill" by Ishmael Hope (Ishmael Reed Publishing Co., December, 2014), joined by Caroline Goodwin: Graduate Center, California College of the Arts, San Francisco.
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Date:Thu, 05 Feb 2015 to Fri, 06 Feb 2015
Film Society Lincoln Center: Showing of "Personal Problems" during Tribute to Bill Gunn during festival of Black Independents in New York, 1969-1986.