Publisher's Synopsis
Poetry. Fiction. On Saturday evening, October 13th 2001, Whit Press sponsored a benefit for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, whose offices were destroyed in the September 11th attack. Nine Seattle writers and performers came together to read poems and stories by their favorite New York writers. The poems and stories they selected highlight the best work of New York's finest, including: W.H. Auden, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Diane DiPrima, Audre Lorde, Martin Espada, Suheir Hammad, and many more. This CD is a recording of that extraordinary evening.Multimedia.