Battle Hill Reading Series @ Green-Wood's Chapel 10.13.07

Subject: Battle Hill Reading Series @ Green-Wood's Chapel 10.13.07

BATTLE HILL POETRY FESTIVAL
AT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

A celebration of poetry’s past and future—for the living amongst the dead.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007
7:00 PM AT Green-wood’s historic chapel



The lineup: bernadette mayer / brenda coultas / jennifer coleman / jim behrle / megan burns / jessica fiorini / julie reid / bennett harris / philip good / dave brinks / brett evans / ce putnam / karen weiser / lauren claire ireland / anna moschovakis / shafer hall / chris martin / anselm berrigan / macgregor card genya turovskaya / joe elliot / douglass rothchild / gina myers / brendan lorber / allison cobb / todd colby / edmund berrigan

Admission: $5–$10/sliding scale. RSVP at [email protected]

A gala poetry marathon hosted by Tracey McTague, Battle Hill Readings Series’ curator. Local blues musician Bennett Harris will play during the refreshment breaks.

For more information: www.lungfull.org/battlehill/

Partial proceeds to benefit the Green-Wood Historic Fund. The Battle Hill Reading Series is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Image: View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn (1881), watercolor and black ink, by Rudolph Cronau. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum. From the Museum’s exhibition Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, which runs September 14, 2007 through January 13, 2008. For more information visit www.brooklynmuseum.org