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DATE: Saturday, September 15, 2001 TIME: 2:00 pm (FREE) St. Agnes Branch, 444 Amsterdam Ave., New York City Directions: http://www.nypl.org/branch/man/sa.html Marilyn Hacker is the author of nine books of poetry, including Squares and Courtyards (W.W. Norton & Company, 2000), Winter Numbers (1994), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Selected Poems, 1965-1990 (1994), which received the Poets' Prize; Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986); Assumptions (1985); Taking Notice (1980); Going Back to the River (1990), for which she received a Lambda Literary Award; Separations (1976); and Presentation Piece (1974), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award winner. She was editor of The Kenyon Review from 1990 to 1994, and has received numerous honors, including the Bernard F. Conners Prize from the Paris Review, the John Masefield Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Ingram Merrill Foundation. Beatrix Gates has published Native Tongue, Shooting at Night and edited The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs and Writings on Love. Her work is widely anthologized and included in such publications as The Kenyon Review (Theater Issue) and Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time. She has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow and founded Granite Press (1973-86) to publish poetry. She has taught at NYU, CUNY (BMCC), Hampshire and Goddard Colleges, The New School, and the Writer's Voice. She served on the Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press Transition Team and ran the A Different Light Poetry Series for three Years. Additional information at http://www.rattapallax.com Ram Devineni, Publisher __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/