Name: The Launch of AGNI 95 --- TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY: https://bit.ly/95-by-ZOOM
Start: 2022-05-11T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Goethe-Institut Boston

The Launch of AGNI 95 --- TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY: https://bit.ly/95-by-ZOOM

AGNI

Readings: Lynn Emanuel, Yasmine Ameli, David Moloney, Mariana Villas-Boas, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, and Andrew Zubiri. Music: Julian Kytasty.

Goethe-Institut Boston

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A HYBRID EVENT. Register on this page to attend in person. <a href="https://goethe-institut.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sCHx3orvSbeaFXptKDHdSg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Register by CLICKING HERE to join us virtually.</a>To celebrate the release of AGNI 95, six contributors will read from their work: poets Lynn Emanuel and Yasmine Ameli; fiction writers David Moloney and Mariana Villas-Boas; and essayists Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Andrew Zubiri. Julian Kytasty, one of the world’s premier players of the bandura (Ukrainian lute-harp) will perform live.Please note: This is a hybrid event, and will be held in person at the Goethe-Institut in Boston and online through Zoom.<ul><li>Register through this Eventbrite page to join us in person in Boston.</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://goethe-institut.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sCHx3orvSbeaFXptKDHdSg" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Register THROUGH ZOOM to join us virtually</a>.</li></ul> Registration required.

Lynn Emanuel is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Nerve Of It: Poems New and Selected (Pitt Poetry Series, 2015), which received the Lenore Marshall Award from The Academy of American Poets. Yasmine Ameli's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry, Ploughshares, The Sun, Black Warrior Review, Narrative, and elsewhere. An Iranian American writer from outside Boston, she teaches creative writing through the Loft Literary Center and works independently as a writing-life coach. David Moloney is the author of the novel Barker House (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020). His writing has appeared in The Yale Review, Guernica, Literary Hub, Salamander, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University and lives in Amherst, N.H.Mariana Villas-Boas is a Portuguese immigrant in Zürich, Switzerland. She won the FNAC New Talent Award for Short Fiction (Portugal) in 2014. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Apple Valley Review and American Chordata.Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Flatiron Books, 2017), which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize, the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE, the Prix des libraires du Quebec 2020, and the Prix France Inter-JDD. It was translated into eleven languages and is in development with HBO. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Eccles Centre at the British Library, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Maine Arts Commission. A portion of their second book, Both and Neither (forthcoming from Doubleday), was chosen for The Best American Essays 2020.Andrew Zubiri’s personal essays have appeared in publications in the Philippines, where he was born and raised. He has lived in Germany and Washington, D.C., and now works as an educational technologist at Boston University Medical Campus. “Shelf Life” marks his first publication in the U.S.Musician Julian Kytasty is one of the world’s premier players of the bandura (Ukrainian lute-harp). A singer, multi-instrumentalist, and third-generation bandurist, he is especially recognized for his expertise in epic songs and early bandura repertoire. In 1989–90 Kytasty was one of the first North American–born bandurists to tour Ukraine, performing over 100 concerts. He has often returned to tour in Ukraine, and in summer 2014 he traveled to sites associated with Taras Shevchenko’s life and poetry at the invitation of the Ministry of Culture, part of Ukraine’s Shevchenko Bicentennial Project. He is musical director of New York Bandura and founder of Bandura Downtown, an innovative music series based in New York’s East Village that provides a home for creative explorations of traditional and contemporary sounds and themes.