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Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL YOUNG PROFESSIONALS NETWORK and SEATTLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY. Faith, family and grassroots efforts around the world eventually helped to free Eric Volz, a young American wrongly convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend in Nicaragua, a story documented in his book, Gringo Nightmare (St. Martin's Press). Since his release, Eric Volz has set out to raise awareness about the significance of the rule of law, and to create a dialogue about how cross-cultural differences and international political tensions can impair the ability of national and international legal institutions to deliver true justice. In conversation with Eric Volz will be Roslyn Solomon, co-founder of the Implementation Project and former director of the U.S. program Uplift International, a Seattle-based health and human rights organization. Tickets ($10 / $5 students and YPIN members) and more information are available via the World Affairs Council at (206) 441-5910, or www.world-affairs.org. Temple de Hirsch is at 1511 E. Pike Street.
Start: 7:00 pm
Down from Bellingham, where he works at an aerospace machine shop, is Caleb Barber with his fine debut collection of poems, Beasts and Violins (Red Hen Press). "Caleb Barber is a large talent without any time for language that doesn't strike and haunt. With his raw, bleak voice, Barber resuscitates the American narrative poem—a species dying into the anecdotal—so that it stands up again and sings." – Katie Ford. "Caleb Barber's fortuitous debut onto the American poetry scene strikes me as every bit as consequential and clarifying as those of his recognizable mentors—Spicer, Hugo, Wright, and Carver. Having absorbed them, he's done what no one could have taught him: given honest and singular voice to the painful extremities of being both beast and violin, brutish and fragile, mired in the flesh, yet bent on not being entirely at its mercy." – Tess Gallagher.
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