{"id":3958,"date":"2007-12-11T09:42:02","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/11\/shab-e-sher-a-night-of-persian-poetry\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T09:42:02","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:01:50","slug":"shab-e-sher-a-night-of-persian-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3958","title":{"rendered":"Shab-e She&#039;r: A Night of Persian Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/pafladycmyk.jpg\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"244\" alt=\"pafladyCMYK\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/pafladycmyk-thumb.jpg\" width=\"208\" align=\"left\"\/>If you&#8217;re in New York, or will be Wednesday of next week, come join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianartsfestival.org\/\">Persian Arts Festival<\/a> as we revive the tradition of Shab-e She\u2019r, A Night of Persian Poetry, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowerypoetry.com\">Bowery Poetry Club<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardjnewman.com\">Yours truly<\/a> will be hosting. Our featured reader, acclaimed Iranian American novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nahidrachlin.com\">Nahid Rachlin<\/a>, will read from her new memoir, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Persian-Girls-Memoir-Nahid-Rachlin\/dp\/B000R344PW\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1197391782&amp;sr=8-1\">Persian Girls<\/a><\/em>. An open mic will follow. All are invited to read, in Persian and\/or English, either their own work or the work of a favorite Iranian\/Persian writer. All work that is read, however, should relate to Iran, Iranians outside of Iran or Iranian\/Persian culture. To sign up for the open reading, send an email to PAF\u2019s Literary Arts Director, Richard Jeffrey Newman: <a href=\"mailto:poetry@persianartsfestival.org\">poetry@persianartsfestival.org<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<h2>When &amp; Where<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, 12\/19\/2007<br \/>6:00-8:00 PM<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bowerypoetry.com\/mid\/directions.htm\">The Bowery Poetry Club<\/a> (click for location and directions)<br \/>308 Bowery @ Bleecker Street<br \/>$12 cover buys one drink  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Information<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.persianartsfestival.org\/\">www.persianartsfestival.org<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Shab-e She&#8217;r at the Bowery Poetry Club will run from 6-8 PM on the third Wednesday of the month through May 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; If you&#8217;re in New York, or will be Wednesday of next week, come join Persian Arts Festival as we revive the tradition of Shab-e She\u2019r, A Night of Persian Poetry, at the Bowery Poetry Club. Yours truly will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}