Opening Reading February 10, 2011
Listen to the reading of all twelve poems in the 2011 project: Photos from the 2011 Reading:


Audience and local poet Nan Fry;
Local poet Christina Daub reading the poem Goethe by local poet Ernie Wormwood;


Moderator Lane Jennings and Peter Beicken (University of Maryland) speak with German poet Jan Wagner via telephone;
Karl Zhang, director of the Confucius Institute at George Mason University, introduces the Chinese poet Xia Yu;


The audience listens to Chinese poet Xu Jiang via telephone, translated by Karl Zhang;
The reception afterwards in the midst of the Goethe-Institut's exhibition "Germany for Beginners" provided a perfect opportunity to discuss the reading further.








