LEWISTON – Meena Alexander, an award-winning poet, novelist and memoirist, will read from her poetry at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave., Bates College. The public is invited to attend free of charge.

Alexander is distinguished professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Centre, City University of New York.

She is at work on two projects: a volume of poems and a book of essays and notes titled “Unquiet Borders: The Poetry of Migration.”

Born in India and educated there and in North Africa and Britain, Alexander’s work has been widely anthologized and translated into several languages, including Malayalam, Hindi, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Macedonian, German and Swedish.

Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The New York Times, the Harvard and Kenyon reviews, and Grand Street.

Alexander’s reading is co-sponsored by the English department, the Asian studies and women and gender studies programs, and by the Multicultural Center, the chaplain’s office and the student organization Women of Color.