Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 3pm.  In the Culture Lounge – Staten Island Arts – Located in Staten Island Ferry Terminal (at the intersection of Richmond Terrace & Bay St, St George, SINY 10301.  (Look for the orange overhead sign marked “Culture Lounge” in the main throughway near the waiting room. The Culture Lounge is opposite the stairs leading to the SIR Train entrance, and next door to the River Dock Cafe.  It’s about 100 feet from the west plaza entrance & stairway from the parking lot)

Staten Island OutLOUD is proud to team up again with our friends at Archipelago Books to present this event for National Poetry Month, featuring the poetry of Yannis Ritsos, with English translation by Edmund Keeley and Karen Emmerich.

We’ll give away copies of this beautiful book, which features cover art by Paul Klee (while supplies last).

Loved and hated during his lifetime, Ritsos was a political prisoner during the years following the Greek Civil War. Twice nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.  Diaries of Exile is his personal reflection of those years of imprisonment: poetry of exile, poetry of indictment, poetry of protest, poetry of survival.

“… We do not sing in order to be
Conspicuous in the world.
We sing
To unite the world. …”