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H. M. Naqvi and Noël Jones Reading
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- Author H. M. Naqvi will read poetry as well as selections from his forthcoming novel "Homeboy." Joining him will be Noël Jones, slam poet extraordinaire. H. M. Naqvi is a graduate of Georgetown University and has taught creative writing at B.U. He represented Pakistan in the National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, MI. His poetry has been broadcast on NPR and BBC. He resides in Karachi. About the book: “A genre busting, page-turning debut, Home Boy fuses street slang and literary discourse, pop culture and politics, history and comedy, East and West.” John Wray, Author of Lowboy, “Home Boy bursts with intelligence and energy and pathos. I haven’t read anything like it.” Gary Shteyngart, Author of Absurdistan, "H. M. Naqvi has redefined South Asian literature" Lee Siegel , Author of Love in a Dead Language. Noël Jones is a native of Alaska, a resident of New York City, and a National Slam Poetry Champion. Upon discovering slam poetry in 1999, she battled her way through one of the country's most formidable slam scenes, to win a coveted slot on one of New York's three national teams in her first year of competition. Representing Team NYC-Union Square at the National Poetry Slam (NPS) in Chicago, IL, Jones aided her team to a 2nd-place finish. Featured on 60 Minutes and in The New York Times, Jones was subsequently elected to be part of an all-woman tour introducing slam poetry to Denmark, where she won the Amazon Mermaid Slam in Copenhagen, and performed on Danish radio and television. The following year, Jones qualified for another New York team, Team NYC-Urbana, and this time took the 2000 NPS championship in Providence, RI. Additionally in 2000, she won the Campbell Group Slam in Baltimore, MD and was chosen in 2001 as one of six poets selected for the Atlantic Center for the Arts residency with Saul Williams in New Smyrna Beach, FL. In 2006 she was awarded a scholarship for the Prague Summer Residency Program and workshopped with Cynthia Hogue and Richard Jackson. Among other appearances, Jones has been featured at the YWCA Student Association's National Convention in Phoenix, AZ, the South by Southwest Music Festival 2001 in Austin, TX, on New York's Studio Y on the MetroChannel, Boston's Stand-Up Poetry on BATV, WNPR's Infinite Mind, and KNBA's Morning Lone in Anchorage, AK.