Pulitzer Prize Winner Mark Strand
03/12/2007
Transcendental moments are just on the verge of normal life. Next time on the Beat, Pulitzer prize winning poet Mark Strand invites us to look at the everyday as a little less ordinary. We also meet the Seattle Symphony's new principal cellist — 23 year old Joshua Roman.At 2:07 p.m. - Mark Strand Reading at SAL
After leaving a party, an old man finds a mirror leaning against a tree, and takes off his clothes. At another party, a man glimpses a woman in a mirror, and is haunted by her for the rest of his life. In these slightly surreal and darkly humorous scenes, Pulitzer prize–winning poet Mark Strand poses the existential questions that form the core of his work: who am I? What am I doing here? Today he reads from his most recent collections, Man and Camel (2006) and Blizzard of One (1998), as part of the 2007 Seattle Arts and Lectures (SAL) Poetry Series, recorded by Intiman Theatre on Feb. 27th, 2007.
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At 2:20 p.m. - Joshua Roman
No stage is big enough for an inspired musician. Joshua Roman is a 23 year–old classically trained artist and the Seattle Symphony's new first chair cellist. Joshua's drive to make music has made him a favorite of classical audiences, rock and roll lovers and children who've never heard a cello before. Joshua Roman joins us to share the music that he’s performed at hospitals and refugee centers in the African nation of Uganda.
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Joshua Roman plays at Town Hall Seattle, March 16th, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.
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At 2:50 p.m. - Nancy Pearl Book Reviews
Our weekly visit with Public Radio librarian and author of More Book Lust, Nancy Pearl.
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