Wednesday, April 11, 2012

kate schapira at rhode island historical society 4/25/12


How We Saved the City

Wednesday, April 25th
6:30-8:00 pm

Rhode Island Historical Society Library
121 Hope St., Providence
 
Kate Schapira  will  read  from  her  book  of poems, How We Saved the City, which asks: Who decides what  a city and  its  people need? Who  creates its  history, and  how?

Come learn more about gentrification, ghosts, and  concurrent  and  successive  cities  in Schapira's  chosen  home  of  Providence.

Kate Schapira is the author of three full-length books and six chapbooks of poetry.  She co-organizes the Publicly Complex Reading Series at Ada Books and  teaches writing  at Brown University. 

This event is free and open to the public.

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