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Words to Comfort: Benefit Readings to Support the WTC
Relief Fund
Oct. 17, 2001 (Wednesday)
Musician Lou Reed, Film-maker Ric Burns, actor Claire
Danes, poets Sharon Olds and Cornelius Eady, novelist
Rick Moody, Oscar Hijuelos and Richard Price, and 60
other readers join NYC Firefighter Anthony Castagna,
NYPD Sergeant Edgar Rodriguez, Salomon Smith Barney
employees and NYC grade-school children for a reading
at the New School, NYC.
Some special readings include:
1. Reading of Walt Whitman's poems by film-maker Ric
Burns, whose film New York: A Documentary History
recently aired on PBS, and work written and presented
by New York City.
2. Frank Lombardi, Chief Engineer of the Port
Authority.
3. Giandomenico Picco, Personal Representative of the
Secretary-General of the United Nations for the 2001
Year Dialogue Among Civilizations. Mr. Picco helped
negotiate the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and
helped bring an end to the bloody Iran-Iraq war and
had several harrowing encounters with Middle Eastern
terrorists.
Many of the poems being read will be selected from the
enormous public outpouring of poetry posted at New
York City fire stations, Union Square, and numerous
other memorial sites around the city.
The reading will take place at the New School,
Tischman Auditorium, 66 West 12th St., from 7:00 p.m.
to 10:00 pm.
Also that night in San Francisco: San Francisco Poet
Laureate Janice Mirikitani and award-winning poets Kim
Addonizio, Chana Bloch, and Ruth Daigon.
San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin Street, San
Francisco, starting at 6:00 p.m.
The World Trade Center Relief Fund was established by
New York Governor George Pataki to assist the families
and dependents of the victims of the September 11th
terrorist attacks. All of the proceeds collected at
both readings will be donated to the fund. $15
suggested donation. Checks only made out the NY State
World Trade Center Relief Fund.
Thanks,
Ram Devineni
Publisher
Rattapallax
http://www.dialoguepoetry.org
http://www.rattapallax.com
NYC Readers:
ALHAJI PAPA SUSSO
BOB HOLMAN
SHARON OLDS
NYFD ANTHONY CASTAGNA
EDWIN TORRES
GIANDOMENICO PICCO
CORNELIUS EADY
JESSICA HAGEDORN
DAVID LEHMAN
RIC BURNS
3-7 kids
NYPD Sgt. EDGAR RODRIGUEZ
SEKOU SUNDIATA
SAPPHIRE
RICK MOODY
LOU REED
OSCAR HIJUELOS
FRANK LOMBARDI
LAWRENCE JOSEPH
RICHARD PRICE
STACEYANN CHIN
CLAIRE DANES
CAZWELL
EMANUEL XAVIER
SIRI HUSTVEDT
4 kids
D. NURSKE
RACHEL HADAS
HATTIE GOSSETT
BOB MACK
ANNETTE DIAZ
TERRY GELBER
GUILLERMO DIAZ
DANA BRYANT
ROGER BONAIR-AGARD
JOANNE AKALAITIS
UNIVERSES
CHARLIE SMITH
PRAGEETA SHARMA
ROBERT POLITO
MIKE LADD
MUMS DA SCHEMER
WILLIE PERDOMO
SUHEIR HAMMAD
DAVID HENDERSON
ALIX OLSON
ELIZABETH MACKLIN
BILL KUSHNER
MICHAEL T. YOUNG
NICOLE HEFNER
MATTHEW TRIGIANI
MARK HALL
KAVEH L. AFRASIABI
VITTORIA REPETTO
DANIEL PALEY ELLISON
LATASHA NATASHA DIGGS
JOHN RODRIGUEZ
MARY ELLEN MUZIO
JACKIE SHEELER
TRAVIS MONTEZ
ANDREW McCARTHY
REGIE CABICO
MARIPOSA
JOHN DEL PESCHIO
BONAFIDE
ANSELM BERRIGAN
GINA BONATI
CARLO BALDI
CHRISTIN APTOWICZ
KAZIM ALI
NANCY AGABIAN
PEGGY ZULEIKA LYNCH
VERONICA GOLOS
MADELEINE BECKMAN
RAM DEVINENI
SAMUEL MENASHE
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