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The 10th annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature kicked off Monday night to a packed audience with an evening of provocative and stirring talks by world famous authors, including Salman Rushdie, Noam Chomsky and Sofi Oksanen. Held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall, the same venue Lincoln gave his famous “right makes might” anti-slavery address, one could sense some of the same momentous urgency in the air.
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Poets Bill Berskon and Ron Padgett have curated a lovely exhibition of the work of the artist George Schneeman now on view at Poets House in Battery Park. A friend to the curators, as well as many other notable New York City poets, “A Painter and His Poets: The Art of George Schneeman” showcases 40 years worth of Schneeman’s paintings, collages, prints, and books, made in collaboration with his poet friends, as well as a large number of his portraits of them.
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