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[From Judith Mendelsohn, of Network for New Music]
Hello,
I am contacting you to invite you to visit the new Charles Darwin exhibition at the American Philosophical Society Museum in Philadelphia, “Dialogues with Darwin,” and to participate in this Poetry Project related to the exhibition. The Poetry Project is open to any and all poets (students, amateurs, professionals) in the Philadelphia region; I would appreciate it if you could take a moment to forward this email to any colleagues, students, or friends who might also be interested! Here are some details about the project:

Network for New Music, in collaboration with the American Philosophical Society (APS) Museum is pleased to announce the Dialogues with Darwin Poetry Project.

Dialogues with Darwin , the current exhibition at the APS Museum, draws from the Society’s own rich Charles Darwin archive—the largest outside of Cambridge, England—to display Darwin’s own letters, as well as rare first editions, sumptuous illustrated books, and manuscripts that follow the evolution of Darwin’s big idea—evolution through natural selection.

Network for New Music invites poets to begin their own dialogue with Darwin. Interested poets should first attend the Dialogues with Darwin exhibition at the American Philosophical Society Museum. Poems are to be written in response to the writings, illustrations, or ideas of Charles Darwin that are on display in the APS Museum's exhibition. Poems should be submitted via the Network for New Music website (www.networkfornewmusic.org/poetryproject) by June 1, 2009.

Then, a group of 12 - 15 young composers drawn from six area universities (the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of the Arts, the Curtis Institute, West Chester University and the University of Delaware) will choose poems from among those submitted, and will set them to music; some of those works will then be performed on a pair of Network for New Music concerts at the Society’s Benjamin Franklin Hall on February 19 and 21, 2010.

For more information and detailed guidelines, visit www.networkfornewmusic.org/poetryproject.

Feel free to email or call me with any questions or comments about the project! I hope you will take a moment to forward this to any friends, colleagues, or students who might also be interested – we would love to hear from poets of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience.

Thanks so much! All the best,

~Judith
Judith Mendelsohn
Program Associate
Network for New Music
6757 Greene Street, Ste. 400
Philadelphia, PA 19119
(215) 848-7647
mendelsohn@networkfornewmusic.org