Poetry & Song: Naomi Shihab Nye & Haleh Liza Gafori

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a night of music and poetry from two celebrated poets and performers In a rare appearance, Poet Naomi Shihab Nye teams up with celebrated classical pianist Daniel Anastasio for a program that combines poetry and musical selections, featuring poems from Naomi’s new bookSidekick. She is paired with poet/singer Haleh Liza Ghafoori, known as “our Rumi,” who will perform her translations or the 13th century mystic both in the original Persian and English. She’ll be performing with Marc Ribot and Shahzad Ismaili, who are simply known as the best musicians in New York.