Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Don’t miss Poets Coleman Barks and Robert Bly, with musical accompaniment by Mundi at 7 pm on August 11th. This very special event will take place at the
Texas School for the Deaf Auditorium 1102 South Congress.
(Tickets ordered through PayPal will be mailed to the address associated with the PayPal account until July 31, 2007. Ticket orders received after July 31, 2007 will be held at the door—be sure to print and bring a copy of your PayPal receipt!
$50 - Preferred seating
$30 - General seating
$15 - Students (student ID required at the gate.)
Coleman Barks was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at the University of North Carolina and the University of California at Berkeley. He taught poetry and creative writing at the University of Georgia for thirty years. He is the author of numerous Rumi translations and has been a student of Sufism since 1977. His work with Rumi was the subject of an hour-long segment in Bill Moyers's Language of Life series on PBS, and he is a featured poet and translator in Bill Moyers's poetry special, "Fooling with Words." Coleman Barks is the father of two grown children and the grandfather of four. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
In his numerous roles as groundbreaking poet, editor, translator, storyteller, and father of what he has called "the expressive men's movement," Robert Bly remains one of the most hotly debated American artists of the past half century. What is it about Bly and his ideas that inspires such impassioned responses from readers and associates? The psychologist Robert Moore believes that "When the cultural and intellectual history of our time is written, Robert Bly will be recognized as the catalyst for a sweeping cultural revolution." And literary critic Charles Molesworth suggests that some of Bly's importance and complication lies in the fact that he "writes religious meditations for a public that is no longer ostensibly religious."
