Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Writing in the Dark @

... Bruce Andrews, Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy Steiner, Reva Wolf...
February 19th 2009, Thursday, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Bruce Andrews will relive his 2006 confrontation with Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly, playing an "Outrage of the Week" video segment. Wayne Koestenbaum will offer a medley of poems and prose. Wendy Steiner will introduce her opera The Loathly Lady, based on Chaucer's "The Wife of Bath's Tale." And Reva Wolf will discuss theft and appropriation in the work of Ted Berrigan.
The Amie and Tony James Gallery, The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th St, New York, NY 10016
212-817-2005, centerforthehumanitiesgc.org
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
"Writing in the Dark," a series of readings, talks and videos by poets, novelists, critics and anthropologists, kicks off the Amie and Tony James Gallery’s spring project, which opens the gallery for conversation, screenings and performance.