Wednesday, May 3, 7pm
Poetry Across Languages at the People's Poetry Gathering
Keynote Address by Robert Bly
@ the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th street)
$12, $8 Poets House and City Lore Members

Robert Bly will open the 2006 People's Poetry Gathering with a presentation about the role poetry plays in world languages, literature, and cultural understanding. He will read and discuss his poetry and translations.

The People's Poetry Gathering, May 3 - May 7, sponsored this year by City Lore and the Bowery Poetry Club, was co-founded by Poets House and City Lore in 1999 and co-produced in 1999, 2001, and 2003. See www.peoplespoetry.org for a full schedule. (Courtesy of Poets House.)