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Poetry and Politics
Laura Bush is hosting the National Book Festival this week in Washington. Poet Sharon Olds, a National Book Critics Circle Award winner and a professor of creative writing at New York University, tells us the political considerations behind her decision to refuse an invitation to read at the festival.
Events: Sharon Olds will be hosting an R.S.V.P. to Laura Bush on:
Friday, Sept 23rd at 7pm
Elebash Recital Hall
The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Free admission at the door. Co-sponsored by The Nation.
More on R.S.V.P to Laura Bush
Music:
Soundtrack from ‘Lonesome’ by the Alloy Orchestra
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