Howdy Folks, Here is a event that I thought many of you may be interested in attending. It even has a U of I connection. Rex --- begin forwarded text To: bavousett rex l <[log in to unmask]> From: Hillary Gardner <[log in to unmask]> Rex, Thank you for your interest in promoting our writing project about the orangutans in Malaysia. Here are the web links I was telling you about. They go together: http://www.geocities.com/rentapoet/oranginvite.html http://www.geocities.com/rentapoet/ If you have room for a text or e-mail announcement, it goes as follows: Bárbara Belloc and Teresa Arijón of Buenos Aires, Argentina, will read from their new collection of poetry entitled "Orangutans" on Wednesday, October 18th, 2000, at 7 p.m. in Wild Bill's Coffeeshop, 321 North Hall, The University of Iowa campus. Inspired by their 1996 visit to the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre on the island of Borneo, Malaysia, "Orangutans" features twenty-nine poems written in Spanish with English translations by Hillary Gardner. Proceeds from the sale of the book will go to Sepilok to promote its efforts to care for orphaned orangutans and return them to the wild. Copies of the book may be purchased for $10 at Wild Bill's or by contacting [log in to unmask] The poems in "Orangutans" are meditations on the amazing world of Malaysian flora and fauna where orangutans, humankind's closest great ape relative, make their home. In the poem "Noreen II," dedicated to the orangutan by that name, Arijón writes: To leave the page blank so the orangutan can make her joyous print in passing. Arijón was a 1995 participant in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. She and Belloc worked on the translations via e-mail with Gardner, a graduate of The University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. The collection, designed by Mariana Scotto, has been published by La Rara Argentina press in Buenos Aires with funding from the Antorchas Foundation. According to Belloc, "Our aim in writing this book was to make the orangutans living in the Centre known, as well as the need to return them to the jungle and 'save' them from extinction." More information on orangutans and the project can be found at http://www.geocities.com/rentapoet/ --- end forwarded text -- Rex L. Bavousett Photographer University of Iowa University Communications & Outreach - Publications 100 OPL, Iowa City, IA 52242 http://www.uiowa.edu/~urpubs/ mailto:[log in to unmask] voice: 319 384-0053 fax: 319 384-0055 ************************************* Sierra Club Iowa City Area Group Chair Iowa Chapter Webmaster 45 Juniper Ct. North Liberty, IA 52317 319-626-7862 home http://www.iowa.sierraclub.org/