Dear Friends: Rattapallax magazine is the official
journal of the People's Poetry Gathering 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
Below is more information on Rattapallax 13 and the
festival:
----THE FOURTH PEOPLE'S POETRY GATHERING
Poems from the World's Endangered and Contested
Languages Read and performed in their Mother Tongues
and English (May 3rd to 7th, 2006), NYC
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 13
Endangered Languages & Poetry
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 Wuw.
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
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, ...
TheLouderArts Awake Prize: Judged by Laure-Anne
Bosselaar, John Pursley III, Lucy Anderton & Pamela
Steele
New Lyric Poetry
Edited by Martin Mitchell & Lorna Blake.
Thanks
Ram
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