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>The 2nd People's Poetry Gathering
>*Friday, March 30 - Sunday, April 1
>*at New York City's Cooper Union and throughout Lower Manhattan
>*co-sponsored by City Lore & Poets House, with 40 participating cultural
>groups
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>This "Woodstock for Words" -- what Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz calls "a
>populist poetry bacchanal" -- brings together literary and folk poets,
>troubadours and balladeers. This year Kunitz, Yusef Komunyakaa, Anne
>Waldman, John Ashbery, Brenda Hillman, and Galway Kinnell, among many
>others, will perform alongside dub (reggae) poet Linton Kwesi Johnson
> >old-time calypso poet/singers, Eritrean poets, Romani (Gypsy) poets and
> >musicians, American Sign Language poets, and poet/rocker Patti Smith. The
>Gathering brings together oral and written poetry traditions, as well as
>poetry and music, to explore the many ways that poetry moves through
>culture. Please join us to transform lower Manhattan into a poetry village!
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Check out the website at <www.peoplespoetry.org>, or you may call City Lore
at 212.529.1955 to be sent a program brochure. A bargain way to partipate
is to volunteer, and you may contact Marj Hahne at the above phone # or by
email <[log in to unmask]>.
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