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POETS FOR PEACE and TTP host a featured reading of poetry and translations at the San Francisco Main Library. Readers include Ilya Kaminsky, Ravi Shankar, Fiona Lam, J.P. Dancing Bear, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Joyce Jenkins, Haleh Hatami, Igor Yevelev and Niloufar Talebi. Open and free to public.

Main Library, Lower Level, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room, 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. 100 Larkin Street (at Grove)

TTP invites Ravi Shankar for a weekend of readings and discussions. Ravi reads from his book, Instrumentality, as well as selections of a forthcoming anthology he co-edits. Poetry Express, Priya Indian Cuisine, 2072 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley. 7-9:30. Hosted by Mark States.

*This event is supported by Poets & Writers, Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.*

TTP moderates a panel of editors and translators to explore how we read the literature of other cultures and how those cultures are unmade and remade through various representations such as translation. Panelists include Ilya Kaminsky, Ravi Shankar, Alejandro Murguia, Eileen Tabios.

Locus Arts 2857 - 24th street @ Bryant in SF (Galeria de la Raza).
2-3:30. $5. Reception to follow talk.

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