Haleh Liza Gafori, translator of the Rumi collections Gold and Water, will be on tour over the next few months to celebrate the publication of Water. Below you can find a list of events with Gafori in Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts:

Tuesday, April 22, 6:30pm ET
New York Public Library, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
with Maya C. Popa
FREE EVENT
Register here

Thursday, April 24, 7pm ET
Reads & Co., 234 Bridge St., Phoenixville, PA
FREE EVENT
Register here

Friday, April 25, in the evening
and Saturday, April 26, in the afternoon
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Recitations and songs with musicians Shahzad Ismaily
and Warren Trae Crudup
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets for the Friday event here
Get tickets for the Saturday event here

Sunday, April 27
Sarah Lawrence Poetry Festival
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
FREE EVENT
More info here

Sunday, May 4, 8pm ET
Joe's Pub, Public Theater NYC
with musician Shahzad Ismaily and friends
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets here

Monday, May 5, 8pm
Blacksmith House Poetry Series
Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA
with Fanny Howe
FREE EVENT
More info here

Tuesday, May 6, 6pm ET
Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
FREE EVENT
RSVP here

Thursday, May 8, 7pm ET
Riffraff Bookstore, Providence, RI
FREE EVENT
More info here

Friday, May 9, 7pm
Montague Retreat Center, Northampton, MA
with musical guests James Bird and Loudingirra Özdemi
TICKETED EVENT
Get tickets here

Thursday, May 15
Pittsburgh Jazz Poetry Festival
City of Asylum Bookstore, Pittsburgh, PA
More information to come

May 12, 19, and 26, 2:30pm ET
Online seminar with
The Academy of American Poets
Register here

Photograph credit © Beowulf Sheehan

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