Tuesday, Apr 13: Alice Walker: On Activism, @ Kaufmann Concert Hall

"Alice Walker: On Activism"

* Date & Time: Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 8:00pm
* Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
* Venue: Kaufmann Concert Hall
* Code: T-LC5CA39-01
* Price: $27.00

Amy Goodman will interview.

Alice Walker is a poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, anthologist, teacher, editor, publisher, womanist and activist. In 1983, her novel The Color Purple won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Walker the first black woman to win. Walker was also the first black woman to win the National Book Award. Her new book, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters 'the horror' in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palenstine/Israel is Walker's reflection on recent trips she took to Rwanda & Eastern Congo and to Gaza. In her inimitable way, she takes on not just the politics of each place, but our necessary response and responsibility as human beings to the violence she witnessed

Info: Harlem One Stop

Saturday, April 10: Teaching in a War Zone, presentation

Saturday, April 10th @ 7PM - $5 Suggested

Presentation: Lia Gladstone “Teaching in a War Zone”
Lia Gladstone spent 2009 teaching literature and drama in Kabul. Join her for “Teaching in a War Zone: A Year in Afghanistan,” in which she presents photographs and narrates her experiences. Gladstone provides commentary on the lives of her students and of Afghan women engaged in cultural creation and resistance in everyday life.


Info: Bluestockings

Tonight! A World of Poetry @ The Bowery Poetry Club

A World of Poetry Event -$7

Gartal and the Armenian Poetry Project present the Zephyr Poets from Los Angeles -- Tina Demirjian, Armine Inknadossian, Shahe Mankerian, and Alene Terzian -- reading with New York City-based writers Nancy Agabian, Lola Koundakjian, Amir Parsa, and Alan Semerdjian. This specially-produced version of Gartal includes contemporary poets who hail from various national backgrounds, cite numerous literary influences, and deal with issues of war, loss of parents, self-definition through relationships and sexuality, and other urban global realities.

Info:
http://www.bowerypoetrylive.com/
http://armenian-poetry.blogspot.com/