FYI. If any poets around DC Metro area are interested.
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> Date:Tue, 22 Mar 2005 09:11:10 EST
> Subject: [Dcpaw] Poetry in a Time of War, March 30, GMU: Askary, Berroa,
> Kramer, Miller, Tischy
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> DC Poets Against War (dcpaw)
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> DC Poets Against War (dcpaw)
> POETRY IN A TIME OF WAR
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> Wednesday, March 30, 7:30 pm, at George Mason University's Johnson Center
> Cinema join us for POETRY IN A TIME OF WAR reading. When truth and language
> become casualties of war, we turn to poetry for restoration. Join us at the
> two year anniversary of war on Iraq.
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> Readers include: Kakahama Askary, Rei Berroa, Christi Kramer, E. Ethelbert
> Miller, and Susan Tichy.
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> Poets will share their own poems and poems from around the world. A question
> and answer session will follow the reading. The event is free and open to
> the public. Sponsored by the English Department and Creative Writing
> Program. For more information contact Melissa at mtuckey@gmu.edu.
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> George Mason University is located at 4400 Braddock Road in Fairfax,
> Virginia. For maps and directions, go to:
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http://www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html#495. >
> READER BIOS
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> Kakahama Askary, a Kurd of Northern Iraq, has devoted his life to work for
> Justice and Peace. Because of war and unrest, Kakahama grew up living in
> all parts of Iraq. He graduated from Al-Azhar University, where he was
> certified Imam, and obtained degrees in law, political science and
> international relations from Institute of Arab Researchers and Studies,
> Cairo, Egypt. He currently is a professor in the Department of Philosophy
> and Religion at James Madison University. Kakahama believes that life is
> beautiful.
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> Rei Berroa teaches Spanish literature & literary criticism at Mason since
> 1984. Some of his books of poetry include : Book of Fragments [Calcutta,
> India 1993], Libro de los fragmentos [Buenos Aires, 1988], Los otros
> [Santo Domingo, 1981], and Retazos para un traje de tierra [Madrid, 1979].
> He is the Faculty Advisor to GMU’s Hispanic Culture Review, and the
> Literary Advisor to Arlington’s Teatro de la Luna, where he organizes
> annually a Poetry Marathon.
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> Christi Kramer, born in Northern Idaho, is a graduate of George Mason
> University's Creative Writing program. Her manuscript "Reading al-Kursi" is
> an ethnography-in-poetry of Iraqi Kurds exiled and living as refugees in
> Harrisonburg, Virginia. Christi believes that the stories we tell are all
> we are: that in the telling, the listening and the retelling, where we are
> reminded of our own humanity and reasons for being, we may find a grace for
> healing and remembrance, which moves to peace.
>
> E. Ethelbert Miller is the chairman of the board for the Institute for
> Policy Studies (IPS). He is a core faculty member with the Bennington
> Writing Seminars at Bennington College. Since 1974, he has been the director
> of the African American Resource Center at Howard University. Mr. Miller's
> memoir, FATHERING WORDS:THE MAKING OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER was
> published by St.Martin's Press in 2000. In 2003,the book was selected by the
> D.C. Public Library for its, one book/one city program. Mr. Miller's most
> recent collection of poems is HOW WE SLEEP ON THE NIGHTS WE DON'T MAKE LOVE
> which was published by Curbstone Press in 2004.
>
> Susan Tichy's poems have been widely published in the US & Britain, and have
> been recognized by awards from the National Poetry Series and the National
> Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of _A Smell of Burning Starts the
> Day _ (Wesleyan University Press) and _The Hands in Exile_ (Random House).
> Her third book, Bone Pagoda, poems on Vietnam, is forthcoming from Ahsahta
> Press. An anti-war activist in the Vietnam era and the widow of a combat
> veteran, Tichy is known for both the sensuality and the political edge of
> her poems. She lives in Colorado and in Virginia, where she teaches in the
> Graduate Writing Program at George Mason University.
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