Roethke readings have taken place since 1964 and have featured such major writers as Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Seamus Heaney. Salamun will be reading at UW in late May for the occasion. In February 2001 there will be an exhibition of Eva and Jan Svankmajer's work at the Chabot Museum in Rotterdam. Wednesday, April 18. On the 73rd Anniversary of his death, the Czech Embassy celebrates the dawning of a new era in literature with the first-ever American release by Twisted Spoon Press of The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch by Ladislav Klima , the great Czech writer, poet, prosaic, playwright and, above all, philosopher.
Admission is free.
The Garden will be published by Salt in May 2001.