Tatjana Daan		John Kinsella

Press Conference at the United Nations. Monday, March 26, 2001 at the United Nations. Press Conference sponsored by the UN's Department of Public Information (DPI). John Kinsella, Ram Devineni and Tatjana Daan answered questions by the press assigned to cover events at the United Nations. Monday, 26 March 2001 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. at the UNCA Club (third floor, UN Secretariat)

Mr. Shashi Tharoor, Interim Head, DPI, joined the following writers and editors: Ricardo Ibarlucia (Diario de poesia, Argentina), Al Creighton (University of Guyana), Mohammed Bennis (House of Poetry, Casablanca, Morocco), Iztok Osojnik (Slovenian Writers Association, International Poetry Festival Vilenica, Slovenia), Charles H. Rowell (Callaloo, USA), Therese Eiben (Poets & Writers Magazine, USA), William Wadsworth (Academy of American Poets, USA), Guy Shahar (Cortland Review, USA), Herbert Leibowitz (Parnassus, USA), Peggy Randall (CLMP, USA), Rene Steinke (Literary Review, USA), Greg Gatenby (Harbour Front Series, Toronto, Canada), Rebecca Wolff (Fence, USA), Jenine Gordon Bockman (Literal Latte, USA), John Kinsella (Stand, Salt and Kenyon Review, UK/Australia), David H. Lynn (Kenyon Review, USA), Arnolda Jagersma (Poetry International Foundation, The Netherlands), Tatjana Daan (Poetry International Foundation, The Netherlands), Erik Menkveld (Poetry International Foundation, The Netherlands) and Ram Devineni (Rattapallax, USA).

Adrian Taylor and Ram Devineni		Audience at the National Arts Club

Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry: Launch Party & Press Conference
Wednesday, January 10, 2001 from 6:00pm - 9:30pm, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York City. The conference was well attended with 12 UN Missions and reporters from over 20 press agencies including CBS Radio, Time, U.S. News & World Reports, The Nation and Bravo! Magazine.

Dialogue Through Poetry & Poetry on the Peaks
Press Conference, Launch Party & Poetry Reading
Friday, March 1, 2002 at 7:00 pm, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC. Featured readers: Glyn Maxwell received the Somerset Maugham Prize and the E. M. Forster Prize, which he was awarded in 1997 by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is author of The Boys at Twilight: Poems 1990-1995, The Breakage, and Time's Fool and Poetry Editor of the New Republic. Stephanos Papadopoulos' first collection, Lost Days, was published Leviathan and Rattapallax Press. His poetry has been published in major periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic, and attracted the attention of Nobel Laureate, Derek Walcott, who invited him to attend the Rat Island Foundation's first program on St. Lucia.