A 4-day festival every first weekend of April, taking place in bookshops, coffee shops, libraries and colleges around the city of Austin, Texas. I am a member of the festival Board of Directors and read at the festival every year. I also hosted a poetry translation workshop – in 2017 and 2108 with Roja Chamankar – and was and was privileged to do some dual language readings with her of both our poetry.
This is Roja’s Persian translation of my poem ‘Les Oiseaux sur les Lignes’. You can see the video of the reading here.
As the new US President diverts public funding away from poetry and other arts events into the pockets of his cronies in the construction and weapons industries to build a big wall and more missiles, the future of this festival is shaky. I read my poem ‘I Shall Vote Trump’ in 2017 and 2018. You can see a video of it here.
Go to aipf.org for details of the 2019 festival.