Amir Shaheen guest at HELLOPOETRY!

The author Amir Shaheen will be a guest at the poetry stage HELLOPOETRY! be. HELLOPOETRY! is a reading stage in Cologne with semi-annual readings dedicated solely to (contemporary) poetry. Also guests are David Krause, Lütfiye Güzel and a surprise guest, accompanied by live music by Samuel Horn.

Amir Shaheen was born in Lüdenscheid in 1966, grew up in Altena/Westphalia and lives in Cologne. He is an author, editor, publisher, trained publisher and writes poetry, prose, satirical and columns. Since July 2010 he has been running SHAHEEN: TEXT • EDITING • LECTORING and is in the field of PR, public relations, communication, etc. worked for leading PR agencies. In 2003 he played a key role in the conception, organization and implementation of the creative adventure "TEMPO - The fastest book in the world", which was published by the Reading Foundation in cooperation with the Landpresse publishing house and the Cologne Literature House on World Book Day. Amir Shaheen has been publishing literary texts since 1989 and has made a name for himself in particular as a poet. A number of his poems have appeared in numerous anthologies, calendars, magazines, radio and the Internet and have been included in "Der Große Conrady - Das Buch deutscher Zeiten" (The Book of German Poems).

So far, Amir Shaheen has published Sujet Verlag: Everywhere and Tomorrow — Poems (2012), Finally — Collected Werthmann Columns 2008 – 2010 (2012), Pack up twice to the south terrace (2013) and footnotes and paper bags — Selected Poems 1991 – 2016 (2016).