Due to the extreme weather forecasts for Boston, the Poets for Haiti Benefit Reading is being cancelled. We will provide rescheduling information as soon as it is available.

As part of our union’s efforts to respond to the terrible devastation of the earthquake in Haiti, HUCTW is co-sponsoring a benefit poetry reading:

Wednesday, February 10, 7:30 p.m.
at
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way, Cambridge

Also sponsoring is the Woodberry Poetry Room at Lamont Library.

Event Flyer A $10 donation is requested. All proceeds will go to Partners in Health for relief work in Haiti. This should be an exciting event for an important cause. We suggest you arrive early, because we are expecting a full house. Readers will include past Poet Laureate of the US, Robert Pinsky, Harvard’s Jorie Graham, Rosanna Warren, Gail Mazur and others. Haitian poets Patrick Sylvain, Jean-Dany Joachim and others will read; one of the poets will be HUCTW’s own Frannie Lindsay. Authors’ books will be on sale for signing from the Harvard Bookstore, which is donating all proceeds after cost to PIH. This is a small contribution to an enormous humanitarian effort underway. The National Nurses Union has reportedly 11,000 nurses who have volunteered to go to Haiti, and other unions are pitching in, in many ways. We hope that this event, in addition to being a fine night of poetry, will stimulate support for PIH and help deepen our connection to the people of Haiti. This event is co-organized by HUCTW member Jim Henle and poet Kim Triedman. henle@fas.harvard.edu