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SATURDAY May Sixth THE FOURTH PEOPLE'S POETRY GATHERING Sponsored by City Lore and the Bowery Poetry Club in collaboration with the Division of Continuing Education & Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY POETRY BASH CUNY Graduate Center 365 5th Avenue (at 34th St.) 212/817-8215 Subway: B, D, F, V, Q, W, N, R to 34th St/Herald Square. 3:30- 4:30pm DISTANT LANGUAGES, REAL AND IMAGINED —> Break Out Room 5 <— Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg will engage in a big time presentation/performance of the many ways in which poets & artists have drawn from distant languages & traditions or have invented or pretended to invent new languages so as to escape the tyranny of the old. Along with their own performance of a range of poetic & ethnopoetic works, there will be a mining of audio & visual archives, to bring into the mix the actual voices & visions of artists such as Schwitters, Artaud, Schwerner, Cobbing, Chopin, & assorted glossolaliacs & chanters from the centers & margins of our world. ================================================= "Lyric poetry has to be exorbitant or not at all." -- Gottfried Benn ================================================= Pierre Joris 244 Elm Street Albany NY 12202 h: 518 426 0433 c: 518 225 7123 o: 518 442 40 85 email: [log in to unmask] http://pierrejoris.com blog: http://pjoris.blogspot.com/ =================================================