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Date: March 30, 1999
Poetry Event Explores Notions of What Defines a Reading
PRINCETON, N.J. -- A "Living Museum" of poetry will take place on Friday, April 9 at 2:30 p.m. at The Art Museum, Princeton University. The hour-and-a-half long event, featuring eleven student performers, will also include a reading by poet and creative writing professor Paul Muldoon to open the event and a closing reading by classics translator and comparative literature professor Robert Fagles. Students will interpretively read an eclectic selection including Chaucer, T.S. Eliot and Tao Te Ching in a round-robin format, with the audience encouraged to roam the galleries at their leisure as various readings occur.
"Some works will be read individually and some chorally," says Emily Holland '01, co-director of the event. "Our goal with the Living Museum experience is to encourage the audience to enjoy an experience of human tableaus, to deepen their understanding of the meanings of freedom of expression and witnessing that expression and partake in a celebration of poetry."
There is no charge for the event, though visitors will have the opportunity to make a contribution to help support a young poet for the summer.
The Art Museum is open to the public without charge. Free highlights tours of the collection are given every Saturday at 2 p.m. The Museum is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Mondays and on major holidays. The Museum Shop closes at 5 p.m. The Museum is located in the middle of the Princeton University campus. Picasso's large sculpture Head of a Woman stands in front. For further information, please call (609) 258-3788.