Sat.,November 15, 20008,                                                                                                                                                             7:30 pm                                                        

   Adams House lower common room, Plympton St. 

Presentation and reading of a major Czech poet:

               “Milada Souckova, an unkown woman, her hidden life, her building of the Czech and Slovak collection at Harvard’s Widener Library, her late emergence as a major Czech poet.”

       Introduction by Jana Moravkova Kiely, former co-master of Adams House

       Presentation and reading by Marie Nemec Banerjee                                     and Ron Banerjee of Smith College                      

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Tuesday, November 18, 4:30 to 6:00pm

Lesley University

Alumni Hall, Oxford Campus, 29 Everett Street, Cambridge

An Afternoon of Poetry with:

Ifeanyi Menkiti, author of four books of poetry,including most recent book, Before A Common Soil.  Professor of philosophy at Wellesley College, owner of Grolier Poetry Bookshop.

Kathleen Spivak, writing coach and award-winning author of six books of poetry and prose, including most recent book, Moments of Past Happiness.  

Monica Prendergast, Author of Teaching Spectatorship: Essays and Poems on Audience in Performance. Assistant professor in Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Division.

sponsored by PEAL (Poetry Events At Lesley)

light refreshments will be served

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Friday, November 21, 2008,7pm, The Democracy Center,45 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge

 Frederick Feirstein, New York City poet reading from his latest book Fallout , and other works. Frederick Feirstein is a practicing psychoanalyst living in New York City.  He has been a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry and Pulitzer Prize nominee twice.  This is his eighth book of poetry.  His first, Survivors, was picked as one of the two Outstanding Books of 1976 by Choice.

“Fierstein has single-handedly resuscitated a major verse form and used it ambitiously to challenge the smug contemporary assumptions of what will or will not work in verse.” Dana Gioia, The Hudson Review.

Dennis Nurkse is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently The Border Kingdom, Burnt Island and The Fall, from Alfred Knopf.

His work has appered in The New Yorker, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Atlantic Monthly.  He teaches at Sarah Lawrence and serves on the board of Amnesty International-USA. College.

     Reception following the reading

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