I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Poetry After Auschwitz

The Anne Frank Center USA is proud to present
I Never Saw Another
Butterfly: Poetry After
Auschwitz
Readings by poets Timothy Donnelly,
Matthea Harvey, and Lynn Melnick
The event will take place at
The Anne Frank Center USA
$8 adults
$5 students &
seniors (65 and over)
All commemorative events in 2015
are free for Holocaust survivors
Space limited. Reservations
recommended.
(212) 431-7993 or email
[email protected]
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About The Anne Frank
Center USA
The Anne Frank Center USA,
a partner of the Anne Frank
House, uses the diary and
spirit of Anne Frank as unique
tools to advance her legacy,
to educate young people
and communities in North
America about the dangers
of intolerance, antisemitism,
racism and discrimination, and
to inspire the next generation
to build a world based on equal
rights and mutual respect.
Part of the Helpers, Heroes, and Liberators season commemorating
the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 6:30-8:30 pm
“Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language...” wrote
the German speaking Jewish poet Paul Celan, who worked in a forced labor camp
during World War II and whose parents died in the camps. “But it had to go through
its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of
murderous speech...”
In this special evening of poetry commemorating the end of the Second World War
in Europe and the Holocaust, join The Anne Frank Center USA as it explores this
language of loss and its ability to tell one’s personal story, or as Celan put it, “to orient
myself, to find out where I was, where I was going, to chart my reality.”
For the event, contemporary poets Timothy Donnelly (The Cloud Corporation), Matthea
Harvey (If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?) and Lynn Melnick (If I Should Say I Had
Hope) will read excerpts from their own works and from the remarkable writers
of the period such as Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs whose lives and writings were
intimately connected with themes of remembrance, resistance, and loss.
The reading is part of The Anne Frank Center USA’s Writing and Resistance
Literary Series, which examines the relationship between writing, struggle, and
self-discovery.
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212.431.7993
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For more information about our Helpers, Heroes, and Liberators season, please visit:
www.annefrank.com/helpers-heroes-and-liberators