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Alisha Kaplan

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Alisha Kaplan

Alisha Kaplan writes poetry, short stories, and something in-between. She is pursuing an MFA in poetry at New York University where she is a Rona Jaffe Fellow. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Carousel, Lilith, The Irish Literary Review, the Best American Poetry blog, and elsewhere. Originally from Toronto, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Articles by Alisha Kaplan

PEN World Voices Festival As It Happened: “Headscarves and Hymens”
By Alisha Kaplan
Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American CenterHeadscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution is the title of Mona Eltahaway’s new book, described by the publisher Farrar, Straus…
Glimpses of Octavio Paz: A Centennial Celebration
By Alisha Kaplan
This year marks one hundred years since the birth of Octavio Paz, renowned Mexican poet, essayist, diplomat, and Nobel Laureate. On October 6th, as part of a weeklong centennial celebration, the Americas…
Russia is Restless: A Brooklyn Book Festival Event
By Alisha Kaplan
On September 19, almost sixty people gathered at Karloff Restaurant in Brooklyn for dinner and conversation with exiled Uzbek writer and BBC reporter Hamid Ismailov and Russian-American novelist Boris…
The Short on “Short”: An Interview with Alan Ziegler
By Alisha Kaplan
Alan Ziegler—beloved Columbia University professor, master teacher of teaching, writer in his own right, and champion of short prose—is also the editor of Short: An International Anthology…
Asymptote’s Third Anniversary: The State of Translation
By Alisha Kaplan
Despite the onset of winter storm Janus, the Housing Works Bookstore Café was packed on January 21 for Asymptote’s third anniversary event, “The State of Translation.”Asymptote…
Remembering the Departed Spirits: Liu Xiaobo’s “June Fourth Elegies”
By Alisha Kaplan
“Let the darkness transform into rock across the wilderness of my memory.” — From “Fifteen Years of Darkness,” June Fourth Elegies Every year since the Tiananmen Square Massacre…