[New-Poetry] re: HOWL! Fifty Years Later: A Symposium. SATURDAY AUGUST 19, an all day event!

[JforJames at aol.com]

Bowery Arts & Science, Ltd.
announces

The Poem that Changed  America... HOWL! Fifty Years Later: A Symposium based 
on the book edited by  Jason Shinder

“Who wandered around and around at midnight in the railroad  yard wondering 
where to go, and went, leaving no broken hearts”
from "HOWL,"  Allen Ginsberg.

Wandering? Wondering? Here is an opportunity to be a part  of history! HOWL! 
FIFTY YEARS LATER: A SYMPOSIUM will be a day-long event on  SATURDAY, AUGUST 
19 at the renowned Bowery Poetry Club.  

The  afternoon will open at 1:00pm with a four-hour seminar featuring authors 
who  contributed to The Poem that Changed America: Howl! Fifty Years Later, 
edited by  Ginsberg scholar and activist Jason Shinder, who will preside over 
the  event.  Expect performances, talks, and a ton of audience participation  
with Amiri Baraka, Alicia Ostriker, Robert Polito, David Gates, Bob Rosenthal,  
Gordon Ball, Kurt Brown.  For complete schedule go to www.bowerypoetry.com  
and click on the 'calendar' link! 

At 5:00 pm there will be “A Public  Howl!”  Edwin Torres will conduct the 
audience/performers (it’s all one!)  in the 23 minute magnum opus.  Come armed 
with your favorite lines or work  spontaneously like the rest of us.

At 6:00pm there will be a “Howl  Speakout!”  Share your stories, poems, 
memories: How did the poem that  changed America change you?

At 8:00pm the legendary Amiri Baraka will  give a full-tilt performance with 
his hometown band, Newark's BLUE ARK. Amina  Baraka will be singing and 
poeticizing and making trouble as well.   

Coming Next!  POETRY NOW! THE EAST VILLAGE SCENE on SATURDAY AUGUST  26th 
(another all-day event!).  A seminar including panel discussions, live  
interviews, and performances to illuminate the roots and traditions of the  historical 
and present cultures of the Downtown Poetics.  More information  coming soon!

Admission is $10 for one day, $7 each for both days.   
Amiri + Amina Baraka + Blue Ark: $12/$6 for students with ID.


The  Bowery Poetry Club is located at 308 Bowery (between Houston and  
Bleecker).  Take the F train to 2nd Ave, 6 train to Bleecker.   
212.615.0505/www.bowerypoetry.com

About Bowery Arts &  Science:

Bowery Arts and Science is a nonprofit organization seeking to  preserve and 
enhance the oral tradition of poetry via live readings, media  documentation 
and creation, and to restore poetry to the center of our culture,  as it is in 
oral cultures. Our mission includes a strong educational component,  
introducing all manner of poetries to students of all ages; the preservation of  
endangered languages via the valuation of the poetry of these cultures; and the  
infusion and integration of poetry with other arts and the daily life of the  
citizenry.

For further  information:
www.boweryartsandscience.org/212.334.6414


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