September 30th past I read and lectured at Kelly
Writers House in Philadelphia for my anthology
The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (UC
Press). The video is at
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/watch/102088 , the mp3
at
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Weiss/KWH_09-30-2010/Weiss-Mark_The-Whole-Island-reading_Writers-Without-Borders_KWH-Upenn_09-30-10.mp3.
Best,
Mark
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