<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><div> I thought our students and faculty might like to know about this event.</div> <div>Thanks very much,</div> <div>Susan Straight</div> <div><br><br>Note: forwarded message attached.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 37px; text-indent: -37px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Louise Steinman <<a href="mailto:swandive@sbcglobal.net">swandive@sbcglobal.net</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 34px; text-indent: -34px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 29, 2008 11:49:57 AM PDT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 21px; text-indent: -21px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Erica Clark <<a href="mailto:erica@artcenter.edu">erica@artcenter.edu</a>>, Irina <<a href="mailto:IrinadeB@aol.com">IrinadeB@aol.com</a>>, Barbara Pressman <<a href="mailto:barbara_pressman@mac.com">barbara_pressman@mac.com</a>>, Eloise Klein Healy <<a href="mailto:eloise_klein_healy@antiochla.edu">eloise_klein_healy@antiochla.edu</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 23px; text-indent: -23px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Chris Abani <<a href="mailto:chris.abani@gmail.com">chris.abani@gmail.com</a>>, Leo & Dorothy Braudy <<a href="mailto:braudy@usc.edu">braudy@usc.edu</a>>, Julia Carnahan <<a href="mailto:JECarnahan@aol.com">JECarnahan@aol.com</a>>, Bernard Cooper <<a href="mailto:BCooper635@aol.com">BCooper635@aol.com</a>>, Maia Danziger <<a href="mailto:MAIADANZIGER@MAC.COM">MAIADANZIGER@MAC.COM</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 50px; text-indent: -50px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>to my friends who love literature</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Dear Friends:<div><br></div><div>I don't often write personal emails to draw your attention to a particular ALOUD event, but in this case, i can't resist. On Nov 6 (yes just two days after the election) we're presenting an extraordinary program with four internationally known poets sharing the stage to discuss language and literature. Adam Zagajewski happens to be my favorite poet in the world, but they're all going to be amazing. I hope you will spread the word on this program, which is being made possible with the help of Trinity University Press. Reservations still available at <a href="http://www.aloudla.org">www.aloudla.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>my best, Louise</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><div class="p01" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="text1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">THU, NOV 06, 7 PM</span></div><div class="para2" style="line-height: 18px; "><span class="text3" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(1, 160, 198); font-weight: bolder; "><a href="http://www.lfla.org/aloud/php/a.calendar.bioText.php?month=11&year=2008&day=06" target="bioPhotoFrame" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(1, 160, 198); ">Writing the World</a></span></div><div class="para0" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="text4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none; color: black; font-weight: bolder; ">A Conversation with Edward Hirsch, <br>Eavan Boland,<br>Peter Cole, <br>and Adam Zagajewski</span></div><div class="para0" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="text5" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; color: black; font-weight: bold; "></span></div><div class="p01" style="line-height: 14px; "><span class="text6" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; color: black; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: normal; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Discussing Hebrew, Polish, Irish, and Mexican writers, four of the world's best known poets examine how local politics, national realities, and cultural traditions affect great literary traditions.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(54, 95, 145); ">Co-sponsored by <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><br>Trinity</st1:placename> <st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> Press<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#365F91" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br></i></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><div style="text-align: left; "><div id="bioright" class="biocontent" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-bottom: 300px; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">Edward Hirsch</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> is internationally acclaimed as a poet and critic. Among his six books of poems are <i>For the Sleepwalkers,</i> which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the <st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of<st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">American Poets</st1:placename> and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">New York</st1:placename><st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>; <i>Wild Gratitude</i>, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; and most recently, <i>Lay Back the Darkness.</i> His prose books include <i>Poet's Choice</i>, the national best-seller<i> How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry </i>and <i>The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration</i>.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">Among his many honors are fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, and a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><br>Eavan Boland</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> has published eight volumes of poetry, including <i>Against Love Poetry, In a Time of Violence,</i>and <i>An Origin Like Water.</i> She is the Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities and the Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Creative Writing Program at <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Stanford</st1:placename><st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>. Boland is the winner of the Lannan Award for Poetry and lives in <st1:city _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Dublin </st1:city>and <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:city _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Stanford</st1:city>, <st1:state _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">California</st1:state></st1:place>.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><o:p _moz-userdefined=""> </o:p></span><br><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">Adam Zagajewski's </span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; ">books of poetry in English include <i>Mysticism for Beginners, Tremor, </i>and <i>Without End.</i> He is also the author of a memoir, <i>Another Beauty</i>, and the prose collections <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><i>Two </i></st1:placename><i><st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Cities</st1:placetype></i></st1:place> and <i>Solitude and Solidarity</i>. Among his honors and awards are a fellowship from the Berliner Künstlerprogramm, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, a Prix de la Liberté, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Neustadt Literary Prize. He is professor of literature at the <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:placetype _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">University</st1:placetype>of <st1:placename _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placename></st1:place>. He lives in <st1:city _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Krakow</st1:city>, <st1:country-region _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region> and <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:city _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Chicago</st1:city></st1:place>.<o:p _moz-userdefined=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "><br>Peter Cole's</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Arial; color: black; "> most recent book of poems is <i>Things on Which I've Stumbled</i>. His many volumes of translations include <i>The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 1950–1492</i>; <i>J'Accuse</i>, by Aharon Shabtai; and <i>So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971–2005</i>, by Taha Muhammad Ali. Cole is the recipient of the PEN Translation Prize for Poetry and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2007. He lives in <st1:place _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on"><st1:city _moz-userdefined="" w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city></st1:place>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 14px;"> <!--StartFragment--></span></font></p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">TRY TO PRAISE THE MUTILATED WORLD</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Try to praise the mutilated world.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Remember June’s long days,<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">and wild strawberries, drops of rose wine.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">The nettles that methodically overgrow<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">the abandoned homesteads of exiles.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">You must praise the mutilated world.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">You watched the stylish yachts and ships;<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">one of them had a long trip ahead of it,<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">while salty oblivion awaited others.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">You’ve seen the refugees going nowhere,<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">you’ve heard the executioners sing joyfully.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">You should praise the mutilated world.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Remember the moments when we were together<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">in a white room and the curtain fluttered.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Return in thought to the concert where music flared.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">You gathered acorns in the park in autumn<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">and leaves eddied over the earth’s scars.<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Praise the mutilated world<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">and the gray feather a thrush lost,<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">and the gentle light that strays and vanishes<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">and returns.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">- Adam Zagajewski<o:p></o:p></b></p> <!--EndFragment--> </font><p></p></div></div></span></p></span></div></span></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>