Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, presents Rita Dove and Mark Ludwig to discuss the new book Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets.
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, the Terezin Music Foundation, headed by Mark Ludwig, invited poets to write on liberation. The result is an extraordinary anthology. Covering a range of philosophical, historical, and personal experiences, these eighty-four poems, written by poets from twenty-five countries, speak from compassion, pain, anger and, ultimately, love. Ludwig, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, also commissioned original music for many of these works; join Rita Dove, former Poet Laureate and Liberation contributor, Ludwig, and musicians for an evening of readings, performance, and meditation on the meanings of freedom.
