Join local poet Mark Statman with visitng poet Roger Kamenetz for a reading and sharing afternoon on Wednesday, August 13 at 4:30 on the Oaxaca Lending LIbrary terrace. Mr. Staman`s new book Volverse/Volver ( Becoming/Return) continue his exploration," his dual life in Mexico and the U.S., and the intimacies, personal and environmental, that bind us to others and to the world." (Jesse Lee Kercheval). Mr. Kamenetz is a U. S. American poet and author best known for The Jew in the Lotus (1 994), an account of the historic dialogue between rabbis and the XIV Dalai Lama. His poetry explores the Jewish experience and in recent years, dream consciousness. Since 2003 he has been instrumental in developing Natural Dreamwork, a practice that focuses on the sacred encounters in dreams. This program is free and open to all.