Film Screening and Yusef Komunyakaa reading
Dear Friends: please join us for these two events
later this week.
“With Every Breath” - - a short film about the poet
Lamont Steptoe and made by Ram Devineni
Screening on Wed., December 10, 2008 at 5:45pm at the
African Diaspora Film Festival
“With Every Breath” & “The Watermelon Woman”
http://www.nyadff.org/schedule_08.html
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 Second Avenue @ 2nd Street, NYC. $10 for
screening
train F to 2nd Ave. or trains B,D,Q to
Broadway-Lafayette St. or 6 to Bleecker
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Poetry reading with Yusef Komunyakaa, Idra Novey, and
Rick Benjamin
Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 7:00pm
Pacific Standard is located at 82 Fourth Avenue in
Park Slope, Brooklyn, between St. Marks and Bergen
Streets.
http://www.pacificstandardbrooklyn.com
Yusef Komunyakaa's most recent book of poems,
WARHORSES, was released in September 2008; he is the
author of many books of poetry and criticism including
NEON VERNACULAR, which won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize.
Idra Novey's first book, THE NEXT COUNTRY, received
the Kinereth Gensler Award and was published in
November 2008 by Alice James Book. Rick Benjamin
teaches poetry at Brown University, Rhode Island
School of Design, and in the Interdisciplinary Arts in
the MFA Program at Goddard College.
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