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NEA Celebrates Poetry of Northern Ireland
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Goia has joined Northern Ireland poets Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, and Paul Muldoon for a poetry reading at National Geographic's Washington, DC headquarters. Co-sponsored with Queen's University, Belfast and Rediscover Northern Ireland, the reading is one of a series of more than 40 events that are bringing the arts and culture of Northern Ireland to numerous DC venues in 2007. "Nowhere in the English-speaking world has there been such a remarkable concentration of poetic talent as in Northern Ireland over the past half century. Northern Ireland's troubles took a terrible human toll, but they also provoked its writers to affirm the freedom and dignity of the human imagination. As a public official, I welcome these writers with pride, but as a fellow poet, I greet them with no little awe," said Gioia. For more information, CLICK HERE
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