15 Gramercy Park S., New York, NY 10003. Members or non-members of any age or locality may enter. After Prof. Rosenthal's death, it was renamed for him and given to Helen Vendler and George Bornstein. Mr. Heaney will read from and discuss his own translations, as well as a selection of poems from his newest collection, Electric Light . Free, at the Community Garden at 6th St. and Ave.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required.
Contest judge Billy Collins and Galway Kinnell, Tracie Morris and Naomi Shihab Nye will read their poems, as well as poems by Hart Crane, Marianne Moore and Walt Whitman. The walk includes poetry readings on the bridge and at the Fulton Ferry Landing and concludes with a buffet supper. Reception and welcoming at the Chester Inn , seminars at North Warren School auditorium, and concluding with ecumenical graveside service at the Chestertown Rural Cemetary. Michael and Grainne Yeats give a major collection of Yeats papers to the National Library of Ireland. Read details in coverage by the Irish Times .