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[Greg Wood <>]

TRANSCONTINENTAL POETRY READING: A DEDICATION TO KENNETH KOCH

Internet-Connected Poets to Perform Live on April 19 at 7:30pm EDT

Internet2 networks will enable poets around the United States to use 
TV-quality video and audio to join together in a landmark 
transcontinental poetry reading celebrating New York School poet and 
Columbia University faculty member, Kenneth Koch. This live, 90-minute 
event will feature poets reading the poems of Kenneth Koch, as well as 
their own work, at nine locations from California to New York beginning 
at 7:30 p.m. EDT on Saturday, April 19, 2003.

The audience at each site will not only see the poet performing live at 
their location, but also will see the live performances of the poets in 
the remote locations via high-fidelity audio and video. In addition, the 
entire poetry reading will be streamed to an Internet-wide virtual 
audience, allowing anyone with a RealPlayer or QuickTime viewer to watch 
the event.

Brown University; Columbia University; University of California, Santa 
Cruz; University of California, San Diego; University of Colorado, 
Boulder; University of Michigan, Louisiana State University; Naropa 
University and Ohio State University are among the universities 
assisting in producing the event. Featured poets include David Antin, 
Andrei Codrescu, Maria Damon, Kenward Elmslie, Roxi Hamilton, Anselm 
Hollo, Forrest Gander, Lisa Jarnot, Ron Padgett, Keith Taylor and Anne 
Waldman. Ursula Heise, Associate Professor of English and Comparative 
Literature at Columbia University, will serve as MC and host for this 
event. Additional support is provided by the Center for Research in 
Computing & the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD.

For more information about this event, and for links to the viewing 
streams, please see: http://arts.internet2.edu/poetry-reading.html.

About Internet2(R)
Led by over 200 U.S. universities, working with industry and government, 
Internet2 is developing and deploying advanced network applications and 
technologies for research and higher education, accelerating the 
creation of tomorrow's Internet. Internet2 recreates the partnerships 
among academia, industry, and government that helped foster today's 
Internet in its infancy. For more information about Internet2, see:
http://www.internet2.edu/


Contact:
Susan Topol
Internet2

734-352-7007



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