Poetry From the Holocaust

Sunday, April 10th, 4:15 PM, Stewart Center - Room 214, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Moderator: Ann Astell
     "I Yearn," by Lerke Rosenblum, read by: Ann W. Astell
  "Gypsy Song," by David Beigelman, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Painful Echoes," "Little Artist," and "Muted Sobs" from Painful Echoes . . . Poems of the Holocaust from the Diary of Luba Krugman Gurdus, read by: Monica Osborne
  "Let Each Be a Fortress," by Avrom Sutzkever, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Aflame!" by Mordecai Bebirtig, read by: Russ Brickey
  Three Poems about Places, read by: Karen Fisher
"The German Frontier at Basel: 1942 & 1992," by Hilda Schiff
"A German Requiem," by James Fenton
"The Train to Belzec," from Painful Echoes . . . Poems of the Holocaust from the Diary of Luba Krugman Gurdus
  "But Perhaps God Needs the Longing," by Nelly Sachs, read by: Kim Stacks
  "Fugue of Death" by Paul Célan, read by: Geoff Stacks
  "A Poem of Death" (from the Rumanian of Maria Banus), by George Macbeth, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Brief Encounters with a Hero, Name Unknown," by Jacqueline Osherow, read by: Kim Stacks
  "Like Butterflies," by Mark Pawlak, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Refugee Blues," by W. H. Auden, read by: Gilman Cook
  "The Last Lullaby," by Freidl Trofimov, read by: Cyril Brown
  "Night and Rain," by Mani-Leib, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Hitler's First Photograph," by Wistawa Szymborska, read by: Regina McMorris
  "The Thin People," by Sylvia Plath, read by: Anne Zimmerman
  "Tatoo," by Gregg Shapiro, read by: Russ Brickey
  "Birkenau, June 1994," by Gordon Robert Mork, read by: Ann W. Astell
  "There Are Times You Must Wonder," by J. R. Solonche, read by: Regina McMorris
  "A New Command," by Jo Nelson, read by: Gil Cook
  "Sealed," by Bina Goldfield, read by: Jo Gardenhaus