BOOKISH: Zen, paper fortresses and Nina Simone

Each week, Nina dishes out all the hot lit going down in the city. This week: Zen Buddhist priests, paper fortresses and Nina Simone.

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BOOKISH: Zen, paper fortresses and Nina Simone

POSTED: Thursday, March 29, 2012, 5:00 PM

Friday, March 30

Me and Nina

With her low crooning and somber melodies, Nina Simone's music has influenced artists the world over. Tonight, poet Monica Hand will demonstrate how she's drawn from Nina's work. Much like Ms. Simone's music, Hand's poems blur the line between music, poetry and raw, unfiltered emotion. A graduate of Drew University, Hand currently lives in Harlem, the site of many of Nina's regular gigs. Hand's poems have been included in numerous poetry collections, and she's one of the founding members of Poets for Ayiti—a non-profit dedicated to rebuilding Haiti's famous library Biblioteque du Soleil.

7 p.m., free, Big Blue Marble Bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane, bigbluemarblebooks.com

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