​Kazim Ali, UAlbany alum (B.A. ‘93, M.A. ’95), is an award-winning poet, translator, novelist, essayist, founder of the nonprofit press Nightboat Books, and Professor of Creative Writing at UC San Diego. The title of his keynote address is “Making America Monstrous Again: Queerness, Community, and the Problems of Translation in Frankenstein.”

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At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 2, Ali will present his most recent collection, Sukun: New and Selected Poems (2023).

The Publishers Weekly reviewer said, “This dazzling retrospective showcases Ali’s multifaceted voice in poems of lyric daring. Ali's linguistic interests are seemingly infinite― from the Vedas to the roots of English and Arabic― but common threads reach across the poems, including migration, prayer, and the creative act itself.”​

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Cosponsored by Living in Languages, a collaboration of the Departments of English, and Languages, Literatures and Cultures.​