Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 6:00 p.m.

at the Union Theological Seminary’s Social Hall, 3041 Broadway at 121st Street.

Amiri Baraka, born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and political activist who has read and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively in the USA, the Caribbean, Africa, and Europe.

Reception immediately following.