Poetry Hearings returns with poets from Ireland, the US, UK and Canada, based variously in London, Paris, New York, Prague, Berlin and the Netherlands. For three nights, Salon Rosa - located above the Sophiensaele in Berlin's central Mitte district - will host readings that run the gamut from high-energy performance poetry, through challenging experimental forms and back to the middle ground of verse, image and metaphor.

Fri 16th November 2007, 8 p.m.

Justin Quinn (Ireland/Prague)

poet TBC

Monika Rinck (Germany/Berlin) with Nick Grindell (UK/Berlin)

Sarah Riggs (US/Paris)

Sat 17th November 2007, 8 p.m.

Anthony Baggette (US/Berlin)

Thad Rutkowski (US/New York)

Andrea Brady (US/London)

Robert Sheppard (UK/Liverpool)

Sun 18th November 2007, 8 p.m.

Eleonore Schönmaier (Canada/Netherlands)

Heather Hartley (US/Paris) Patricia Farrell (UK/Liverpool)

Cyrus Cassells (US/Paris)

MCs: Alistair Noon, Moon, Lance Anderson

Venue: Salon Rosa Sophienstr. 18 Entrance H (above Sophiensaele) 10178 Berlin

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dante and ted hire bikes, buy cheap wop wine, pedal hard for
Wannsee through miles of kilometers sleeked by fog’s drugged sneeze of light, slimey-soft, a convoluted cloth wiping thoughts on their bright brown, dark blue eyeglassed eyes; thoughts soon lost to the night traffic of Friday: time and its tired crisis, the thirty-niners and their out-sourced inner lives. they glide on lamplit awe around the unwrinkled face of the lake, joke and brake at a moon-smashed copse, splurge in turns over shivers of warmth-raped gentian gasping oh my god.

after which they re-embark, wobbling on. they see

battery-lit foxes rear up along the tarmac like hung partisans; see swallows sharp as shattered gramophone platters heaved over the treetops in a feat of strength. they park

where the bike path rises to a sudden rail crossing and need the drink.

(dante for his shyness and ted) (to think)

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"Noah Webster (1758-1843) was the man of words in early 19th-century America. Compiler of a dictionary which has become the standard for American English, he also compiled The American Spelling Book, which was the basic textbook for young readers in early 19th-century America. (...) Today, the Spelling Book is useless as a children's textbook, but it provides us an example of what Webster thought it important to tell young learners about morality (readers could decide to emulate the "good boy" or the "bad boy") and the principles of American government (members of Congress must be paid because otherwise "none but rich men could afford to serve as delegates," and "there are many men of little property, who are among the most able, wise and honest persons in a state"). The Spelling Book also shows the ways a language can change in 200 years of spelling."

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