Today at 6:00pm in the College of Liberal Arts building, room 3150, the Towson Literary Reading Series welcomes Abdul Ali, author of Trouble Sleeping, winner of the 2014 New Issues Poetry Prize. Ali’s poetry, essays and interviews have appeared in Gargoyle, Gathering of Tribes, National Public Radio, New Contrast (South Africa), The Atlantic, and the anthology, Full Moon on K Street, among other publications. He has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities, American University, College Language Association, and the Mt. Vernon Poetry Festival at George Washington University. Ali teaches high school English at Bryn Mawr.
For more information about the Towson Literary Reading Series, contact Michael Downs at mdowns@towson.edu or Leslie Harrison at lharrison@towson.edu.
