Battle Hill Reading Series @ Green-Wood's Chapel 10.13.07

Subject: Battle Hill Reading Series @ Green-Wood's Chapel 10.13.07

BATTLE HILL POETRY FESTIVAL
AT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

A celebration of poetry’s past and future—for the living amongst the dead.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2007
7:00 PM AT Green-wood’s historic chapel



The lineup: bernadette mayer / brenda coultas / jennifer coleman / jim behrle / megan burns / jessica fiorini / julie reid / bennett harris / philip good / dave brinks / brett evans / ce putnam / karen weiser / lauren claire ireland / anna moschovakis / shafer hall / chris martin / anselm berrigan / macgregor card genya turovskaya / joe elliot / douglass rothchild / gina myers / brendan lorber / allison cobb / todd colby / edmund berrigan

Admission: $5–$10/sliding scale. RSVP at [email hidden]

A gala poetry marathon hosted by Tracey McTague, Battle Hill Readings Series’ curator. Local blues musician Bennett Harris will play during the refreshment breaks.

For more information: www.lungfull.org/battlehill/

Partial proceeds to benefit the Green-Wood Historic Fund. The Battle Hill Reading Series is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Image: View from Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn (1881), watercolor and black ink, by Rudolph Cronau. Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum. From the Museum’s exhibition Brushed With Light: American Landscape Watercolors from the Collection, which runs September 14, 2007 through January 13, 2008. For more information visit www.brooklynmuseum.org

HUGE success! Over 170 folks. Much fun and mirth to be had. Thanks to all who came, read, drank and generally mulled about Green-Wood's chapel at tonight.

Special Thanks to Tracey McTague, the event's coordinator.

Will throw up some picks on flckr this week.

Next one? Next year? Spring perhaps?

lostingreenwoodhts wrote: HUGE success!

I thought it was great. A thoroughly unpretentious poetry reading, what a rarity.

I wish I'd been able to stick around for the trek to the living room lounge.

Flkr thread from a fellow Green-Wood Heighter who attended:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27122088@N00/sets/72157602508321898/