Joris & Rothenberg @ People's Poetry Gathering

see & hear us on Saturday May 6th at:

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

Featuring

The Wor(l)d of New York!

and

Poems from the World’s Endangered and Contested Languages
Read and performed in their Mother Tongues and English

including the
“Festival within a Festival”
Harpsong: Celtic Poetry and Music

and

The New
New York City Epic Poem
and Poems of our Fair (and sometimes Unfair) City
Read by Twenty Poets Laureate of New York

full program here

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SATURDAY May Sixth

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.