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CURA Personalis: A Reading Gala

May.03.2012

Readings followed by a heavy hors d'oeuvre reception
All proceeds benefit Covenant House
Cocktail Attire
Space is limited
(Take the escalators up one floor to the Plaza Level)

Tickets are available at the door

$5 Admission
$10 Admission + copy of CURA
$10 Admission + dog tag
$20 Admission + copy of CURA + dog tag

For more information on The DogTag Project, visit the link below.

Readers:

Dennis Barton serves as Vice Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Interfaith Assembly on Homelessness and Housing. He coordinates their Speakers Bureau and co-facilitates the Panim el Panim Life Skills Empowerment Program. In addition to working as a Peer-Educator in the Education Department of Planned Parenthood, he is an active member of Middle Collegiate Church and an Ordained Deacon in the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of New York.

Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago, a poetry collection...

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CURA Personalis: A Reading Gala
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Mar.23.2012 - 10:07 am
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Jan.15.2012 - 7:33 am
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Comments from Evie

Apr.12.2012 - 5:50 am
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
Zhana, Thanks very much for your comments and the link.  The statistics just bring into clearer focus what anyone...
Mar.30.2012 - 1:47 pm
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
Good to hear from you.  Hope you're well and -- dare I say -- thriving these days, despite everything. Peace.
Mar.29.2012 - 5:14 am
In response to: Trayvon Martin's Murder Is Not an Anomaly
It's lovely of you to write.  I just hope my voice and the voices of people everywhere who finds this tragedy to...
Jan.22.2012 - 12:34 am
In response to: The Iron Lady
I'm still hoping to see this film, as distasteful as Thatcher is to me.  Meryl Streep is simply irresistable....
Jan.22.2012 - 12:30 am
In response to: The Good Ship Semester
Jessica, Hi!  Long time, huh?  : )  Thanks for the post about this semester-cycle life we live, which is...

Published Reviews

the new black, by Evie Shockley
Apr.16.2012
Published by FIELD / Poetry Daily
Shockley's own new book of poems exemplifies this fusion of the formal and innovative as well as any recent book I can think of. Shockley isn't simply a formalist, nor does...