ATHICA - Front Lines, Vox pt. 5/10 (Cahnmann-Taylor Reading)

Front Lines: 
Original Works on War & Life
A VOX Reading Series Event
Friday, September 10th, 2010 
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM 

The fifth VOX Reading Series Event at ATHICA during which local writers' theme-specific works enhance the discourse around the exhibits. 

The night's four writers—-keynote Dr. Chris Cuomo and poets Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, Ashley David and Heidi Lynn Staples--were selected by 2010-2011 VOX Committee and ATHICA's Artistic Director Lizzie Zucker Saltz to address the issues in Mission Accomplished, and exhibit that focuses on war's effects on society. 

It is doubly poignant that takes place on the eve before the anniversary of 9/11, coincident with the many recent news stories about the Iraq war pull-out.

Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor, has also appeared at ATHICA before, reading poetry for February 2010's VOX Reading Series Event, Blood Lines: Stories & Poems of Love & Family, which was affiliated with the Nurture exhibit. Serendipitously we discovered she also has a long-time commitment to the "poetry of war" and is an active part of the 'Split this Rock' writers group, started with Poets Against the War. She also recently organized a poetry reading panel accepted for the national Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2011 conference titled Home front: women poets and war at which herself and writers Anne Waldman, Alicia Ostriker, Lorraine Healy, & Maria Melendez will present.

For more information: http://athica.org/exhibit.php?ID=74

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