LEWISTON — Award-winning poet, scholar and novelist Meena Alexander will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

The event is open to the public at no charge.

In her latest book, “Poetics of Dislocation” (2009), part of the award-winning Poets on Poetry series from the University of Michigan Press, Alexander looks at the creative process in herself and other writers.

Born in Allahabad, India, she grew up in India and Sudan. She moved to England to study at age 18, and now lives in New York, where she is University Distinguished Professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.

Much of her work is concerned with migration and its impact on the writer’s subjectivity, and with the sometimes-violent events that compel people to cross borders.

She has published six volumes of poetry, including “Illiterate Heart,” which won the PEN Open Book Award. Her memoir, “Fault Lines,” was named one of Publishers Weekly’s best books. Her prose also includes two novels, “Nampally Road” and “Manhattan Music.”

Alexander received the 2009 Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South Asian Literary Association, an organization allied to the Modern Language Association, for her contributions to American literature.

For more information, call 786-8294.