25 December 2007 - 14:07Meena Alexander Bengali Market

Meean Alexander reading “Bengali Market” from Rattapallax 10.

Meena Alexander was born in India, raised there and in Sudan. At eighteen she went to study in England. Her first poems were published when she was a teenager in Sudan, in Arabic translation.. She has read at Poetry International London, Struga Poetry Evenings, Poetry Africa, Calabash Festival, Harbor Front Festival, Poetry Society, India and other international gatherings. She is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York and teaches in the MFA program at Hunter College and the Ph.D.Program at the Graduate Center.