Please join on Sunday, October 19 at 3 p.m. at the DC Arts Center (2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan, just south of Columbia Road on the west side of the street) for what promises to be a phenomenal poetry reading featuring SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIC and MICHAEL SCHARF.

SEMEZDIN MEHMEDINOVIC was born in Bosnia in 1960. He arrived in the U.S. as a political refugee in 1996, and he is currently living in Alexandria, Virginia. His articles, poems and essays have been translated and published in leading European and American newspapers and magazines. His book Sarajevo Blues was translated into Slovenian and published by Nova revija in 1995. In 1998, City Lights of San Francisco published Sarajevo Blues, translated by Ammiel Alcalay, and in 1999 a translation was published in Germany. In 2001, he completed his fourth book of poems, Nine Alexandrias, which appeared in Zagreb, Croatia in 2002, will be published by City Lights in Fall 2003.

MICHAEL SCHARF is the author of a chapbook, Telemachiad, and of Vérité (/ubu). Work has recently appeared in Mirage #4/Period(ical), The Tangent and PoetsAgainstTheWar.org, and an essay on Lytle Shaw's work is forthcoming in Jacket. As editor of Harry Tankoos Books, he recently imported Chet Wiener's Devant l'abondance from Editions P.O.L in Paris. A chapbook of light verse, Nine Sonnets for Late 90s Literary Culture, is forthcoming from xPress(ed), and his current project is tentatively titled For Kid Rock. He lives in New York.

2438 18th Street in Adams Morgan
(south of Columbia Rd. on the west side of the street)
All readings are on third Sundays at 3 PM, Admission $5, FREE for DCAC members