Read Quickly Changing River and New Poems by Meena Alexander.

Meena Alexander's books of poetry include Illiterate Heart which won the PEN Open Book Award, Raw Silk, and the recently published Quickly Changing River. She is the author of the memoir Fault Lines. Her reflections on poetry, migration and memory, Poetics of Dislocation, is forthcoming in 2009 from the University of Michigan Poets on Poetry Series. Currently she is working on a cycle of poems based on drawings made by children from Darfur, in the aftermath of violence. She is Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York and a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.

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