The Berkeley Poetry Review Presents
the 2nd Annual
Poetry after the Storm
An event to benefit the schools and libraries of New Orleans
Tuesday, the fifth of December
Two Thousand and Six
at seven o’clock in the evening
Two Thousand and Six
at seven o’clock in the evening
Heller Multicultural Lounge
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
University of California , Berkeley
Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union
University of California , Berkeley
Featuring: Michael Palmer, California Poet Laureate Al Young, Waldo Martin, Claudia Rankine, John Shoptaw, Geoffery O BriEn, Eleanor Johnson, Valyntina Easterling Grenier, Cal Slam, Onxy Express, Vagabond, Poetry for the People, Nijla Mumin, Jonathan Lewis, DJ Styles of Mr. Matt Werner, Jesse BrownsteiN, excerpts from the upcoming PBS documentary, Faubourg Tremé, and many more!
The 2nd Annual Poetry After the Storm will be a collaboration of student poets, alumni, faculty, and Bay Area literary celebrities mobilizing to help the victims of Hurricanes Katrina and the devastated physical and intellectual infrastructure that still needs radical assistance. Last year the students in attendance raised nearly $2,000 for the NAACP Katrina fund, this year we aim to top that. Proceeds will go to the reconstruction of schools in New Orleans and the restocking of libraries which were destroyed by the storm. Nearly one year later children who have already endured the depths of poverty, homelessness, racism, and neglect are still displaced and without access to educational facilities. Try and imagine the person you would have become had you not had access to books, art, or literature throughout your childhood or education. What kind of opportunities would you have lost? Imagine wanting to learn, but your city had to burn all its books because they grew toxic mold.
The time to act is NOW. Please join us in rebuilding New Orleans, one book at a time. If not us, who?
