November 4–8, 2009
As a celebration of the spoken word, this year’s book festival will offer an expansive program of poetry, from the sparse verse of America’s Poet Laureate and opening keynote speaker, Kay Ryan, to the impromptu haiku poems of Mayor Oscar Goodman and Dayvid Figler, who open First Friday, November 6, on the book festival stage. As a follow up, Jarret Keene and Claudia Keelan, will lead a mobile troupe of seven “spoken word warriors” to other sites in the Arts District, via the Tanka Trolley, as part of “The Sin City Sonneteer Spectacle.” In a Saturday session at the Fifth Street School, poetry will seduce puppetry in an experimental work by Ariel Goldberger and Leonard Schwartz that is drawn from the Orpheus myth. Later in the day, UNLV poet, Donald Revell, will present a reading with other poets in the school’s lovely fountain courtyard.
For more information about the Vegas Valley Book Festival, call 229‑5431 or 895‑1878 or visit www.artslasvegas.org/vvbf.
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