Readings by Israel Centeno and Yaghoub Yadali

City of Asylum @ Alphabet City, located at 40 West North Avenue, is the permanent home for City of Asylum programming and the arts. It promises to be a hub for Pittsburgh’s readers and writers, jazz and small-scale music and performance, and artistic experimentation. It is a home for diverse voices from around the globe – a place where Pittsburgh meets the world and the world meets Pittsburgh. It also serves as a home for many partnering artists and organizations in our own community. To view all of the events that are scheduled, visit the City of Asylum @ Alphabet City website.

Israel Centeno and Yaghoub Yadali
Tuesday, May 16 at 8:00 pm
Enjoy an evening of free readings from City of Asylum exiled writers-in-residence Israel Centeno from Venezuela, and Yaghoub Yadali from Iran. They will be reading excerpts from works recently translated and published. Israel Centeno is a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum, having arrived in 2011. He is the author of poetry, short stories, and ten novels and is regarded as one of the most important Venezuelan literary figures of the past fifty years. Yaghoub Yadali, a fiction writer from Iran, was a City of Asylum Writer-in-residence from 2013-2015.

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