12044: invitation : poetry reading at Harvard

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Tontongi <tontongi@gis.net>


                  THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER CENTER FOR LATIN
                                   AMERICAN  STUDIES
                        in partnership with the  W.E.B. Du Bois
Institute of Afro-American
                       Research, the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, and the
                                         HAITI INITIATIVE
                                              At Harvard University
                                          cordially invites you to a

                                Book Launch and Bilingual Poetry Reading
of


                                              OPEN GATE
                 First bilingual collection of Haitian Creole Poetry
available to English readers

                                          Honoring editor and poet
                                              Paul Laraque

                                            Scheduled to appear:
                                               Max Manigat
                                              Denize Lauture
                                              Patrick Sylvain

                         along with a video presentation made especially
for this event
                                       which features interviews with:
                 Paul Laraque, Edwidge Danticat, Dumas Fils Lafontant
and Tontongi

                                 Friday, May 17, 2002
                                        4:00-6:00 p.m.

                                           61 Kirkland Street
                                        Cambridge, MA 02138

                                       Wine and Cheese Reception

                                    For further information please
contact
                    Jill Netchinsky Toussaint at 617-495-3366 or
Netchins@fas.harvard.edu