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I am working on another program called Poetry on the Peaks which will continue the UN's Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry program started this year. Poetry on the Peaks will happen next year and will celebrate the UN's International Year of Mountains. The goal of the program is to setup at least 12-15 poetry readings on 12-15 mountaintops around the world and corresponding readings in cities nearby. The readings will happened throughout 2002. So far, I have commitments from Mr. Gordon Janow with Alpine Ascents International based in Seattle and Eric Simonson with International Mountain Guides based in Portland. Together they will read poems on most of the mountaintops listed below. Also, Pulitzer Prize winning poet and mountain-climber Gary Snyder may climb the Alps next spring 2002 and read a poem on behalf of this program. The preliminary list of mountains are: The Seven Summits (tallest mountains on each of the seven continents) 1. Aconcagua, Argentina 2. Carstensz Pyramid, Irian Jaya, Indonesia 3. Denali, Alaska, USA 4. Mount Everest, Nepal 5. Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, Africa 6. Vinson Massif, Antarctica 7. Elbrus, Russia 8. Mount Rainier, Washington, USA 9. Pico de Orizaba & Iztaccihuatl, Mexico 10. The Matterhorn, Switzerland or somewhere in the Alps 11. Banaff Mountain, Canada 12. Mt. Fugi, Japan 13. Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA (mentioned in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech) 14. Mount Moriah, Jerusalem, Israel (Site of the Temple Mount) 15. Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa Someone from Janow's or Simonson's group will read a poem on the first 10 mountains on the list. We are working on setting up readings in corresponding cities to work in conjunction with the reading on the mountain. For example, we hope to have a reading at Windybrow Centre for the Arts, Johannesburg, South Africa for the reading in the Drakensberg Mountains. A reading in Atlanta sponsored by Five Points magazine for the reading on Stone Mountain and so on. If you have any questions or liked to be involved, please call me at 1-212-723-4125 or email me at [log in to unmask] . Information about Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry can be found at http://www.dialoguepoetry.org and information about the UN's International Year of Mountains can be found at http://www.mountains2002.org/ Thank You, Ram Devineni Program Coordinator __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/