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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 -------- 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. Please send future emails to [log in to unmask] for press