Breyten Breytenbach joins Chuck Wachtel to stage this first benefit reading in a series during the following year. All the proceeds will go to Middle Collegiate Church's community programs including its Food Pantry, Butterfly lunch program and its Celebrate Life Meal for those with HIV/AIDS.
Friday, December 5 | 7 PM - 8:30 PM
Middle Collegiate Church
2nd Avenue at 7th Street
We suggest a donation of $10 and/or bags of rice and canned food.
For directions or more information please go to www.middlechurch.org or call them at 212.477.0666.
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Breyten Breytenbach will read from his work of short prose All One Horse and new poems. A native of South Africa, he is a distinguished painter and a writer of more than 30 books of poetry, novels, short story compilations, and essays. A committed opponent of apartheid, Breytenbach was a political prisoner in South Africa from 1975–1982, serving two terms of solitary confinement. He is known as the finest living poet of the Afrikaans language. Chuck Wachtel will read from a new novel 3/03 and new shorter works. He is the author of the novels Joe The Engineer, winner of the Pen/Hemingway Citation, and The Gates; a collection of stories and novellas: Because We Are Here; and five collections of poems and short prose, including What Happens to Me. He wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Joe The Engineer, scheduled to go into production in summer of 2009. He teaches Creative Writing at New York University.
