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Poetic City: A Poets House Celebration
with Cornelius Eady, Matthea Harvey, Fanny Howe, Li-Young Lee, Kay Ryan and others
Jun 18, 2008 | 7:00 pm
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Bring your picnic baskets to the “front lawn” of our future home in Battery Park City for this unforgettable evening of outdoor readings and musical performances overlooking the Hudson River.
Audience members are invited to join us for a pre-reading walking tour of Battery Park City, featuring an introduction to some of its literary and artistic niches. The free tour will begin at 6:00pm at the Poets House booth, near the bandshell in Rockefeller Park.
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City
(1, 2, 3, A, C, E to Chambers St., walk west to River Terrace and cross the street to enter the park, head south to the bandshell)
This pre-house-warming party celebrates our almost-ready, eco-friendly home in Battery Park City (see “The Green Future of Poets House” on page X) and the grand metropolis of New York, which has attracted poets to its shores for generations. Come gather on our new front lawn, just steps from the Hudson River, for a reading by poetic luminaries. A pre-reading tour of local literary and cultural sights begins at 6:00pm in Rockefeller Park at the pavilion, the same site as the reading.
The Pavilion
Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City
(1, 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street. Walk west on Chambers Street, cross into the park at River Terrace and head south to The Pavilion.)