I'm part of POETS NIGHT in DC

(this is the note from curator Greta Byrum):

Dear Poet,

When poets met CAFÉ, it was love at first sight. Soon they moved in together. The romance goes on.

Poets sit, read, eavesdrop, write, or hide in CAFÉ; CAFÉ’s mood is set by its poets. Words are read, exchanged, gathered, and discussed.

Please come celebrate poets, CAFÉ, and their life together, on Thursday July 2, 5-8:30, in the café at The Phillips Collection, Washington DC.

Come and do what poets do: read, eavesdrop, play, eat, write, hide, or – whatever you like. There will be no requirement to read or to listen, and no open mic. There will be plenty of poets and opportunities to be poetic.

We also invite you to bring a book for donation to our BOOK collection: poetry or not, whatever you’d like to read in a café.

Please RSVP if you can come, and we will put your name on our POET list.

Yours,

dBfoundation

If you can't make it on July 2, but would like to donate a book, please write to db@dbfoundation.org

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At The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC 20009, Phone: 202.387.2151. $-FREE-$

More about CAFÉ [this is not that] at The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, after the jump.

I'll be in The Collection of Silence

Dia at the Hispanic Society Presents
The Collection of Silence
Curated by Eileen Myles

Eileen Myles writes:

WHAT ?!: TUESDAYS ON THE TERRACE: THE COLLECTION OF SILENCE
WHERE: 155 St. & BWAY, NYC
WHEN: June 30, 7PM
WHY: PEACE, AIMLESSNESS, RELIEF, SOLDARITY, RESISTANCE, SOLACE, IRONY,
FRIVOLITY, HAD ENOUGH

Being invited by Dia to curate a performance for a summer evening vaguely in response to Zoe's show and the Hispanic Museum's collection. I have invited five poets who invited five other poets (so there's 25 of us, names below.) Invited as well are The Village Zendo, soprano Juliana Snapper, dancer Christine Elmo and four cohorts and about 40 kids from PS 4 conducted by poets Julie Patton and Christine Hou and finally a life drawing group from Brooklyn known as F>A>R>T>S (Friends of the Fine Arts) ; all will converge to sit, move, read and perform SILENTLY for one hour on the Hispanic Museum's incredibly spacious and evocative Audubon Plaza. You as audience are invited to come up and stroll amongst this silent happening at your own genial pace. You're urged to dress vividly & shamelessly as if you were attending a wedding or a renaissance fair or a nature hike, an art opening, poetry reading or to spray-paint things on your roof. At 8;15 the silence will end and morph into a decent party.

With Who: MONICA DE LA TORRE, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, STEPHANIE GRAY, TIM LIU, RACHEL ZOLF, JENNIFER BARTLETT, DANNY SNELSON, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, RENATO GÓMEZ, KIM ROSENFIELD, ANGELA JAEGER, JEREMY SIGLER, TIM PETERSON, LYDIA CORTES, NATHANIEL SIEGEL, PAOLO JAVIER, MARK BIBBINS, NICOLE COOLEY, LINDA GREGG, JEFFREY MCDANIEL, LILA ZEMBORAIN, TONYA FOSTER, RACHEL LEVITSKY, EMILY BEALL, CHRISTINE HOU, JULIE PATTON, STUDENTS FROM PS 4 AND EILEEN MYLES, PROJECT ORGANIZER