[Yale-readings] 4-27: Rumi at Yale

[Nancy Kuhl]

>
>Rumi: an 800th birthday party
>With bestselling poet Coleman Barks and
>Grammy Award-winning musicians Paul Winter and Glen Velez
>
>NEW HAVEN – Just 800 years after his birth, 
>Rumi, the Persian scholar who founded the 
>Whirling Dervishes, is the top selling poet in 
>America. On April 27, Rumi’s most famous 
>translator, Coleman Barks, will read Rumi’s 
>poems to musical accompaniment by Grammy 
>Award-winners Paul Winter and Glen Velez. Also 
>performing are Poet Laureates Lisa Starr and Marjory Wentworth.
>
>The performance at the Yale University Theatre, 
>is the finale of Chabaso Bakery’s National 
>Poetry Month celebration. Proceeds to benefit for Connecticut Food Bank.
>
>Details: Sun. April 27, 4-6 p.m., Yale 
>University Theatre, 222 York St., New Haven. 
>Tickets $25 and $75 (including a 
>wine-and-dessert reception with the performers 
>after the event) <http://www.breadandpoetry.com>www.breadandpoetry.com
>
>Jelaluddin Rumi: Born in September 1207 in 
>medieval Persia, Rumi was widely recognized 
>during his youth as a brilliant scholar and 
>popular teacher. Meeting in his late 30s a 
>wandering Sufi dervish transformed Rumi into a 
>mystic who created an estimated 20,000 poems as 
>oral lessons to his students. Today, recordings 
>of his poems have made the Billboard’s Top 20 
>list, and over the last decade he has been the 
>best selling poet in America. Deepak Chopra 
>notes that reading Rumi by Coleman Barks is an 
>ecstatic experience that will shift your 
>awareness and give you true exaltation of your own spirit.
>
>Coleman Barks: Over 30 years, Barks has 
>published 19 books of Rumi translations, 
>including The Essential Rumi and the Soul of 
>Rumi, which have sold more than three-quarters 
>of a million copies. A retired University of 
>Georgia professor, he is widely regarded as the 
>man who brought Rumi back into the public eye. 
>He was prominently featured in two Bill Moyers’ 
>PBS specials, and in the prestigious Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces.
>
>Paul Winter: A six-time Grammy Award winning 
>soprano saxophonist, Winter’s jazz sextet was 
>the first jazz group to officially perform at 
>the White House for John F. Kennedy. In the 
>early 1960s, his sextet toured Latin America as 
>cultural ambassadors for the U.S. State 
>Department, playing 160 concerts in 23 
>countries. But Winter is best known for his 27 
>years of winter solstice concerts at the 
>Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, 
>the world’s largest gothic cathedral.
>
>Glen Velez: A three-time Grammy winner, Velez is 
>considered one of the most influential 
>percussionists our time, as well as being 
>responsible for a world-wide resurgence in the 
>popularity of the frame drum. He has performed 
>with Suzanne Vega, Pat Metheny, John Cage, Steve 
>Reich, the New York City Ballet and the Israel 
>Philharmonia. He teaches at the Mannes School of 
>Music, and gives master classes at the Julliard 
>School, Tanglewood and Manhattan School of Music.
>
>Lisa Starr: The Poet Laureate of Rhode Island, 
>Starr is the founding organizer of the 
>nationally acclaimed writing series, the Block 
>Island Poetry Project. She has published two 
>collections of poetry: Days of Dogs and 
>Driftwood and This Place Here. Her poetry has 
>appeared in several journals and magazines.
>
>Marjory Wentworth: The Poet Laureate of South 
>Carolina, Wentworth has been nominated three 
>times for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. She 
>has published two poetry collections, Noticing 
>Eden and in late 2007 Despite Gravity. She 
>serves on the Board of Directors The University 
>of South Carolina’s Poetry Initiative, The 
>Poetry Society of South Carolina, and the SC Center for the Book.
>
><http://www.breadandpoetry.com>www.breadandpoetry.com
>
>
>--
>Ross Grant
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>203-651-9118: air
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>New Haven, CT 06511
>

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