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“The Rukeyser Centenary Celebration”: EMU Music Department.

U-M English professor Elizabeth Daeumer joins 2 EMU voice professors, soprano MeeAe Nam and mezzo-soprano Monica Swartout-Bebow, and piano professor Hyunjin Lim in an evening of poetry and song by women poets and composers (Mar. 15, 7 p.m., EMU Alexander Recital Hall, Lowell at E. Circle Dr., Ypsilanti) Part of a 2-day symposium on work and legacy of the poet Muriel Rukeyser, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth. The symposium also includes a public lecture by the renowned poet Alicia Ostriker on “Daring to Live for the Impossible: Rukeyser and the Idea of Freedom” (Mar. 16, 7 p.m., EMU Student Center, 900 Oakwood off Washtenaw), and it is preceded by a performance of Rukeyser’s Book of the Dead (Mar. 14, 7 p.m., Dreamland Theater 26 N. Washington), along with other poetry readings by Catherine Taylor, Tyrone Williams, Judith Goldman, and Carla Harryman.
7 p.m., Various EMU and Ypsilanti locations. Free. 487-2255.

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