BATTLE HILL POETRY FESTIVAL
AT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 2007 7PM

A literary event for the living amongst the dead, the Battle Hill Poetry Festival will be a tremendous gala poetry marathon, the most elaborate we have ever developed and a lively extension of the spirit of the Battle Hill Reading Series. Step into the historic Green-Wood Chapel on a Saturday night in the country’s most beautiful cemetery, 478 acres of woodland right in the middle of New York City, and honor our poet ancestors -- both permanent residents of Green-Wood, and our still very-much-alive forbearers. We invite you to join us for Battle Hill’s Dia de la Muerte.

THE BATTLE HILL POETRY FESTIVAL AT THE GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 2007 7:00PM Green-Wood Chapel 25th street Entrance of Green-Wood Cemetery (25th street/5th avenue South Slope/Green Wood Hts) R train to 25th Street, walk up the hill one block from subway ADMISSISON: $5-10 SLIDING SCALE About 25 poets will read & local blues musician Bennett Harris will play during the refreshment breaks. Battle Hill Reading Series is funded in part by Poets & Writer’s, Inc. with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Partial proceeds of this event will go to the Green-Wood Historic Fund pictured above: Rudolph Cronau's View from Greenwood Cemetery pictured below: Cemetery entrance, left Chapel, right

THE LINEUP: bernadette mayer brenda coultas jennifer coleman jim behrle megan burns jessica fiorini julie reid philip good dave brinks brett evans ce putnam karen weiser lauren claire ireland anna moschovakis shafer hall anselm berrigan macgregor card genya turovskaya joe elliot sharon mesmer gina myers brendan lorber allison cobb todd colby edmund berrigan and others! The Battle Hill Reading Series is hosted by Brooklyn-born Tracey McTague, Lungfull! Magazine editor, and living resident of Brooklyn’s geographic apex, Battle Hill, across from the cemetery.

For additional information:
The Green-Wood Cemetery
How Battle Hill was named
Wild parrots nesting in the cemetery entrance

RSVP at battlehillfestival@gmail.com

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Rudolph Cronau's View from Greenwood Cemetery is courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.
Part of the Brooklyn museum's "Brushed with Light: American landscape Watercolors from the Collection."
Exhibit starts September 14, 2007 through January 13, 2007. For more information visit www.brooklynmuseum.org

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