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] To RSVP and purchase tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/1387116 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. www.annefrank.com 44 Park Place New York, NY 10007 212.431.7993 [email protected] www.AnneFrank.com For more information about our Helpers, Heroes, and Liberators season, please visit: www.annefrank.com/helpers-heroes-and-liberators