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    In the Lateness of the World: Singing in Dark Times: Carolyn Forché

    Presented by Rothko Chapel at Rothko Chapel

    December 7, 2010

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    In the Lateness of the World: Singing in Dark Times: Carolyn Forché
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    The Rothko Chapel presents In the Lateness of the World: Singing in Dark Times, Tuesday, December 07, 2010, at 7:00pm.  Featuring Carolyn Forché (pictured, image by Emma Dodge Hanson).

    Carolyn Forché, poet, human rights activist, and granddaughter of a Czech immigrant whose family included a woman resistance fighter imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of...

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    The Rothko Chapel presents In the Lateness of the World: Singing in Dark Times, Tuesday, December 07, 2010, at 7:00pm.  Featuring Carolyn Forché (pictured, image by Emma Dodge Hanson).

    Carolyn Forché, poet, human rights activist, and granddaughter of a Czech immigrant whose family included a woman resistance fighter imprisoned during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, will read original poetry and talk about poetry of witness. Her first poetry collection, Gathering the Tribes, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. Her second book, The Country between Us, was published with the help of Margaret Atwood.

    Forché is director of the Lannan Center for Poetry and Poetics and holds the Lannan Chair of Poetry at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

    The Rothko Chapel is funded in party by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.


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    Rothko Chapel

    1409 Sul Ross
    Houston, TX 77006

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    All programs are free and open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-serve. For additional information, please call 713-524-9839.

    Parking is available along the street or in the St. Thomas Parking Garage on the corner of West Alabama and Graustark for $2.00.


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    7pm


    Phone: 713-524-9839

    Parking: There is street parking available on Yupon and Sul Ross. Wheelchair access is located on Sul Ross at the north end of the Chapel.

    Accessibility Info: Currently, no accessibility information is available for this event.

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