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On
behalf of the members of the Department of Language & Literature, I would
like to welcome you to the 2002-2003 Spectrum of Poetic Fire reading
series. Your support has encouraged an unprecedented growth in the series
and in its community arts partnership links! What the Spectrum reading
series, Theater Project,
LINK: A Journal of the Arts in Baltimore and the World, Maryland
Poetry Review, LITE: Baltimore’s Literary Newspaper
and the D.C. powerhouse
WordWrights! Magazine
have in common is a love of the art of storytelling, that is often best
exemplified in the work of both narrative and lyric poets from our ancient
past and in our post-modern present.
In
ancient Egypt, the Scribe was one of the most important people in Egyptian
society, The Scribe was important not only for his documentation function
but for his ability to capture in both narrative and lyrical voices the
imagination of his pharaoh, his time and his culture. The fact that these
Egyptian Scribes were anonymous makes these lines from Pharaoh Rameses
dynasty even more important in our world; where the individual struggles to
find a place within the collective.
“Departing this life has made their names
forgotten,
It is writings
which makes them remembered.”
Spectrum of Poetic Fire 2002 Reading series is pleased to present some of
the major Scribes of our time, in a format that is free and open to all
students and the public. I hope that you can join us. Please, feel free to
call me personally, if you are interested in attending any of these events
or visit with me on a Wednesday afternoon this fall.
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