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John
M.
Ridland and Peter V. Czipott
will read from their translations
of Holocaust poet
Miklos
Radnoti’s
ALL THAT STILL MATTERS AT ALL
Saturday, March 7,7pm
Miklós Radnóti
(1909-1944), whose work beautifully combines colloquial modernism with
Virgilian classicism, is best known internationally as one of the great poets of
the Holocaust: his final, harrowing poems were recovered from a notebook found
on his body upon exhumation from a mass grave in 1946. But while he is
certainly one of the key literary chroniclers of the Holocaust, he is also much
more than that. All That Still Matters at All spans his entire output,
from his carefree early love lyrics to the increasingly urgent poems written as
the clouds of fascism and war descended upon Europe to the
poems composed during forced labor and the death march that finally took his
life. All of his work, however, was inspired by his wife, muse and literary
executor, Fanni Gyarmati Radnóti, who enthusiastically endorsed these new
translations by Ridland and Czipott prior to her death in 2014 at the age of
101.
Professor Emeritus
John M. Ridland taught writing and literature in the English Department and
the College of Creative
Studies at the University
of California, Santa
Barbara, for over forty years. His poems have appeared in
many journals, including Poetry, The Atlantic, Harper's,
The Hudson Review, The Dark Horse,
Spectrum, The Nation, New Zealand
Books, Quadrant, River Styx,
Solo, Askew, Parnassus,
and The Hungarian Quarterly. His published books include: Fires of
Home, Ode on Violence, In the Shadowless Light, Elegy for My Aunt, Palms, and Life with Unkie, as well as his
translation with Peter Czipott of Sandor Marai’s poetry, The Withering
World.
Physicist
Peter V. Czipott has published a number of translations from the
Hungarian in literary journals the world over, including the poems of Sándor
Márai, Miklós Radnóti, Sándor Reményik, György Faludy and Zoltán Zelk. In 2010,
he received the Bálint Balassi Memorial Medallion for
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Thirty-Sixth
Annual
St. Patrick's Day
Open Reading
of Irish Poetry and Prose:
Members of the public are invited to read
selections from
James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett,
Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde,
George Bernard Shaw,
Sean O'Casey, Edmund Burke, etc.,
on Tuesday, 17 March 2015,
from 7 P.M. until it ends.
Messrs. Guinness and Harp will officiate the
proceedings.
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New York
poet
Joseph Fasano
reads from his book
INHERITANCE
(nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize and
the James Laughlin Award)
Saturday, March 21, 7PM
Joseph
Fasano was born
and raised in New York State’s Hudson River Valley. He earned a BA in
philosophy from Harvard University in 2005 and an MFA from Columbia University
in 2008. His poems have appeared in The
Yale Review, The Times Literary Supplement,
Tin House, FIELD, The Southern Review, and Boston Review, among other
journals. His poem “Mahler in New York”
won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize, and he has been a finalist for the Missouri
Review Editors’ Prize, the Times Literary
Supplement Poetry Competition, the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James
Books, and the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. He has also been a semifinalist
for the “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest and the Mid-American
Review James Wright Poetry Award, as well as a
Pushcart Prize nominee. Joseph Fasano has taught at SUNY Purchase, and
currently teaches literature and writing at Manhattanville College and Columbia
University.
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Poet
Elmaz Abinader
will read from her new book
THIS
HOUSE,
MY BONES
Wednesday, March 25 at 7
PM
“The conversation with
history is witnessed by the earth and etches the collisions on its body—every
rock and road, riverbed and meadow hold the marks of migrations, escapes,
exiles, alienations, aging and evolutions. In This House, My Bones, the body
and the earth exchange their positions and perspectives. The memories of war
are on the skin as well as on the mesa, the exile is written in dust and cells.
Through mining experience of occupation, dislocation, and aging, I created
poems where the body and the earth examine their bruises.” ~Elmaz
Abinader
“In poems of grace and
a searing fire, Elmaz Abinader negotiates love, yearning, hope, memory,
resistance, injustice and death and weaves an uneasy but authentic hope that
illuminates the path to a true redemption. A stunning collection.” Chris
Abani, author of Sanctificum and The
Secret History of Las Vegas.
Elmaz Abinader is
a poet, memoirist, playwright and novelist. Her first memoir, Children of the Roojme,
a Family’s Journey
from Lebanon,
chronicles three generations of immigrants battling dislocation and tradition.
The poetry collection, In the Country of
My Dream won the 2000 PEN Oakland Josephine
Miles Poetry award. She was also awarded a Goldies Award for Literature, as
well as two Drammies, Oregon’s
Drama award, for her three-act one-woman show, Country of Origin. Elmaz most recently
performed Country of Origin at the Kennedy
Center and has toured several countries
with this play and two others: Ramadan
Moon and 32 Mohammeds. Elmaz’s
work has been widely anthologized, most recently in The New Anthology of American
Poetry, Vol. 3 and The Colors of Nature. Elmaz has been a
Fulbright Senior Fellow to Egypt,
taught for the Palestine Writing Workshop and a resident at the El Gouna
Writing Residency on the Red Sea. Elmaz is one of the
founders of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, (VONA/Voices), now in
its 15th year providing workshops for writers of color. She is also a creative
writing professor at Mills College.
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Director Oliver Stone
Historian and Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert
Francoise Gilot
Vogue magazine photo of Francoise Gilot
at the original store
Michael McClure
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman, Director of the Neurosciences
Institute, with U.C. Berkeley philosopher John Searle with Mrs. Searle
Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen
Quincy Troupe
Iris Chang
Gerry Spence
Noted editor Robert Weil, editing a Patricia
Highsmith manuscript for W.W. Norton & Co.
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