Thanks so much, Doug! Each will actually be a first for me, since I've never
done been a "featured reader" before and have never had a book to promote,
either. So good wishes mean a lot. Again, many thanks.
Richard
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Subject: Re: Announcement: Rich Newman's Upcoming Readings
Here in Edmonton, all I can do is wish I could be there (too).
But I wish you well in this performance, Richard...
Doug
On 29-Apr-05, at 4:44 AM, Richard Jeffrey Newman wrote:
> Saturday, May 14th, 6-8 PM: I will be reading from my own poetry and
> translations of Saadi, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan, as the
> featured
> reader at The Dactyl Foundation (www.dactyl.org), 64 Grand Street,
> Ground
> Floor, Soho, NY 10013. An open mic will follow. For more information:
> (212)
> 219-2344.
>
> Friday, May 27th, 8-10 PM: With Iraj Anvar, author of Divani-I Shams-I
> Tabriz: Forty-Eight Ghazals (translations of Rumi): Shabe Sha'er:
> Night of
> the Poets, An Evening of Sufi Persian Poetry & Song, St. Marks Church,
> 33-50
> 82nd Street, Jackson Heights, NY 11372. We will be reading and
> performing
> the poetry of Rumi and Saadi in Persian and English. (I will be
> reading from
> my recently published book, Selections from Saadi's Gulistan.) For more
> information call (718) 592-5958. Co-sponsored by Movement One
> (www.movementone.org) and The International Society for Iranian Culture
> (www.isicweb.org). This event is also funded in part by Poets &
> Writers.
>
>
> My website: www.richardjnewman.com
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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