National Poetry Month Ticket Giveaway

On March 31, come hear readings by Bei Dao and Rosanna Warren. "A Bei Dao poem feels as if it follows the pulse of consciousness,” wrote Robert Hass. His most recent book isThe Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems. "Rosanna Warren lives in our tarnished, everyday, ramshackle world of loss, anguish, and sacrifice," wrote the late Anthony Hecht. "but she inhabits almost as vividly a realm of classic purity; and in some of her best, most moving poems she dwells in both regions at once, and within, as it seems, the same breath." Ms. Warren's new collection is Ghost in a Red Hat. Join us on April 7 for a reading by Alice Notley, who will read from her new collection,Culture of One. It’s her first appearance at the Poetry Center. "The nature Alice Notley most loves is human nature," wrote Marie Ponsot. "Ardent and agile, she is willing to cry out, to drift, to stammer, so as to put every turn of language to her use." Ms. Notley will be introduced by Ron Padgett. Email us at unterberg@92Y.org-- the first five respondents to each offer will get free tickets. Please write "WARREN" or "NOTLEY" in your subject line, according to the reading you would like to attend. (Please do not hit "reply" to this e-mail, or send more than one e-mail. Please include your full name.)