Series Schedule

October 14, 1997
An Evening of Danish Poetry with poems performed by Katrine Marie Guldager and Peter Laugesen. English translations were read by Roger Greenwald.

October 21, 1997
Poet and translator Linh Dinh read his translations of Vietnamese folk poetry.

October 28, 1997
French Poetry performed by the chair of the Barnard College French Department Serge Gavronsky.

November 18, 1997
Poetry from Barranquilla -- A performance by three writers from the Colombian state Barranquilla: Jaime Manrique, Miguel Falquez-Certain, and Berty Barranco.

November 25, 1997
Malena Mörling performed her own translations of the poetry of Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer and selections from her own work.

December 2, 1997
Ukrainian poetry translated by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, was performed by members of the Yara Arts Group.

December 9, 1997
Poetry was read by Chinese-American poet Wang Ping.

December 10, 1997
An evening of Chinese poetry by "misty" poet Bei Dao with English translations read by Eliot Weinberger, recorded at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church with the cooperation of The Poetry Project.

December 17, 1997
Slovenian Poetry by Tomaz Salamun -- recorded at St. Mark’s Church with the cooperation of The Poetry Project.

January 6, 1998
A performance of Latin American poetry in honor of the Three Kings Day -- a reading organized by poet Sol Gaitan that included the poetry of Chilean poet Raúl Barrientos, Dominican poet Alexis Gómez Rosa, and the poetry of Venezuelan poet María Auxiliadora Alvarez read by her translator, Venezuelan poet Lydia Zacklin.

January 13, 1998
Poetry by Filipino poets Luis H. Francia and Eric Gamalinda.

January 20, 1998
Poetry by Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuña.

January 27, 1998
Latin American poetry with a Filipino twist: An evening of poetry hosted by Regie Cabico, poetry was performed by Argentinian poets de la rosa, and Guillermo Castro, and Puerto Rican poet, Emanuel Xavier.

February 3, 1998
Slovenian poetry with Tomaz Salamun.

February 10, 1998
African poetry read by poet, translator and Penn State English professor Charles Cantalupo.

February 17, 1998
"Godless Sufism" Modern and contemporary Turkish poetry translated by Murat Nemet-Nejat, including the work of Cemal Sureya, Orhan Veli, Ece Ayhan, Mustafa Ziyalan.

February 24,1998
Indian poets Meena Alexander and K.C. Jayan performed. Also translations of Meena Alexander’s poetry into the Indian language Malayalam by K.C. Jayan.

March 18, 1998
Japanese poet Tanikawa Shuntaro performed his poetry at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church. English translations were read by Jim Morris-Lee. Recorded with the cooperation of The Poetry Project.

May 27, 1998
Chinese "misty" poet Yang Lian performed at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery. English translations were read by Leonard Schwartz.