For immediate release
Contact:
Larissa Shmailo
212-712-9865
ALL-STAR
WOMEN POETS READ TO BENEFIT DEMOCRATIC PARTY 9/29
Women poets read in support of Democrat women candidates
Cornelia Street Café
29 Cornelia off Bleecker
Greenwich Village, NYC
Saturday, September 29, 6:00 – 7:15 pm
$20 cover / $10 minimum
New York City — On September 29, as part of the global 100
Thousand Poets for Change initiative, seven leading New York City women poets
will read to benefit the Democratic National Committee’s (Democrats.org)
midterm election efforts. Proceeds will be earmarked for the campaigns of
progressive women candidates and candidates in battleground states.
All-Star Women Poets Read will feature Lee Ann Brown (In the
Laurels, Caught; Polyverse); Elaine
Equi (Ripple Effect: New and Selected
Poems; Sentences and Rain); Rachel
Hadas (“The Golden Road”; The
Iphigenia Plays of Euripides - New Verse
Translations); Patricia Spears Jones
(A Lucent Fire: New & Selected Poems;
Painkiller); Trace Peterson (Troubling
the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics; Collected Poems of Gil Ott); and Larissa Shmailo (Patient Women, Medusa’s Country), led by mistress of ceremonies Maggie Balistreri (The Evasion-English Dictionary Expanded Edition; A Balistreri Collection: abc poems).
All-Star Women Poets Read will celebrate the growing role of women in
political leadership today and send a message of #neverTrump to Republican
anti-women agendas. Voter registration
information and volunteer opportunities to help Democratic midterm candidates
will be distributed at the reading and a special message of support from district
Congressman Jerrold Nadler will be
read.
All-Star Women Poets Read is part of the eighth annual global event, 100 Thousand Poets for Change (100TPC), a nonprofit, grassroots
organization which brings communities together for sustainability and peace. This
year’s events involve nearly 2,000 individuals and organizations and include a
special initiative among families and in classrooms, “Read a Poem to a Child,”
to highlight the importance and vulnerability of children.
All
poems read at All-Star Women Poets Read and
100TPC will be archived at Stanford
University.
For more
information, contact Larissa Shmailo (All-Star
Women Poets Read) at 212-712-9865 or Michael Rothenberg (100TPC) at 305-753-4569.
