Passwords: Margaret Randall on Cuban Poetry
Thu, Mar 23, 2017
7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, New York 10282
Feminist poet, photographer, and social activist Margaret Randall takes audiences on a linguistic journey through Cuba. Editor of Only the Road ⁄ Solo el Camino: Eight Decades of Cuban Poetry, the most complete bilingual anthology of Cuban poetry available to an English readership, Randall explores Cuban culture and landscape through its poetry and her own photographic documentation.
Presented as a part of the Poetry Coalition’s inaugural initiative, Because We Come from Everything: Poetry & Migration. #poetrycoalition #wecomefromeverything
Admission:
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House members
POETRY COALITION:
More than twenty nonprofit poetry organizations from across the United States have formed a historic coalition dedicated to working together to promote the value poets bring to our culture and communities, and the important contribution poetry makes to the lives of people of all ages and backgrounds. As its first public offering, throughout the month of March, Poetry Coalition members will present programs on the theme Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration.
Sponsored By Poets House and co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative
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