PEN World Voices Festival!- Apr 27 & 29

Revolutionaries in the Middle East With Rula Jebreal, Ghassan Salamé, Abdelkader Benali and others Wed, Apr 27, 7:30 pm How did social media and citizen journalism galvanize the revolution in the Middle East? In the borderless world of the Internet, where revolutionary ideas spread at lightning speed, will other despotic regimes collapse? Which ones? And how does an autocracy transition into a democracy and at what costs? Listen to the formidable former Lebanese Minister of Culture, Ghassan Salamé; Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal; Moroccan-Dutch writer Abdelkader Benali; and on-the-ground bloggers tackle these urgent questions. Poetry: The Second Skin With Laurie Anderson, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ernesto Cardenal and others Fri, Apr 30, 7:30 pm Do you hear the poetry in music and the music in poetry? Where does one begin and the other end? Experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson curates and emcees an evening exploring the porous borders between poetry and music. The multimedia extravaganza will showcase Yusef Komunyakaa, John Burnside from Scotland, Ernesto Cardenal from Nicaragua,Hasina Gul from Pakistan, Agi Mishol from Israel, Joachim Sartorius from Germany, David-Dephy Gogibedashvili from Georgia, Andrzej Sosnowski from Poland and Pia Tafdrup from Denmark. Co-produced by the Poetry Society of America. Tickets: $20/15 PEN Members, student with valid I.D. To purchase, call 866.811.4111 or visit www.pen.org/Festival