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Keynote
by poet Robert Bly reading from his translations
and poems on Wednesday, May 3rd at CUNY. It continues
on Friday afternoon with a free program open to the
public at the United Nations featuring a delegations
from around the world in a tribute to poetic traditions
that are increasingly threatened in our globalized society.
That night the Irish band, Black 47, will rock
the Bowery Poetry Club with Celtic poets and musicians
as part of the "Harpsong" program. The program
continues on Saturday, May 6th, with a day-long Poetry
Bash at the CUNY Grad Center, 365 5th Ave (at 34-35th
Sts) presenting Belfast performance poet Gearóid
MacLochlainn, award-winning Scottish traditional
band Cliar, and Wales' National Poet Gwyneth
Lewis. Artists working indigenous languages from
the USA, Asia, and Australia are also featured such
as Alaskan Tlingit poet Nora Marks Dauenhauer. Also
featured are Sekou Sundiata, Galway Kinnell, Suheir
Hammad, Sapphire, Jerome Rothenberg, and many others.
Rattapallax
magazine is the official journal of the festival featuring
a huge section on endangered languages in the book and
on the CD. More information and listing of the full
schedule at http://www.peoplespoetry.org
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Endangered
Languages & Poetry
Edited by Catherine
Feltcher
Breyten
Breytenbach , Catherine Fletcher, Ima Aikio-Arianaick,
Sherko Bekas, Iain Britton, Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Guy
Etienne, Mererid Puw Davies, Dida Aguirre García, Latif
Halmat, Tsjêbbe Hettinga, Jaime Luis Huenun, Iluen Clan,
Gwyneth Lewis, Leonel Lienlaf, Iwan Llwyd, Gearóid Mac
Lochlainn, Kevin MacNeil, Lorraine Dominique Nakai,
Paulos Netabay, Cathal Ó Searcaigh, Tim Rakawurlma &
Banjo Dinthali, Farhad Shakely, Janneke Spoelstra, Natalia
Toledo, Kirmen Uribe, Wayãpi Clan, Wora Clan & Aku
Wuwu.
Correction:
"Remembering Sahel" was translated by Charles Cantalupo
& Ghirmai Negash. Vince Mitchell made the recording.
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TheLouderArts
Awake Prize
Judged by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
John Pursley III, Lucy Anderton & Pamela Steele
Poetry
by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Kate Light, Janet
Kaplan, Laure-Anne Bosselaar , Landis Everson, Daniela
Gioseffi, Brendan Lorber, Marty McConnell, Rich Villar,
Mercedes Roffe, Sylvio Back, Marilyn Hacker, Salah Stetie,
Lourdes Vazquez, Lila Zemborain, and others.
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Poetry
After the Iranian Revolution
Edited
by Niloufar Talebi
Abbas Saffari, A. H. Afrasiabi, Yadollah Royaï Shahrouz
Rashid, Ziba Karbassi, Majid Naficy Granaz Moosavi,
Saghi Ghahraman, Mana Aghaee Jamshid Moshkani, V. M.
Airu, Roshanak Bigonah & Naanaam
New
Lyric Poetry
Edited by Martin Mitchell & Lorna Blake
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