March 15 — Spring Writer’s Symposium with Glinda Bridgeforth, who says “Girl, get your credit straight!” The Empire of Oprah comes to Indianapolis, with “debt Diet” specialist Glinda Bridgeforth. check it out
March 17 — Carmen Multiculturally. Indianapolis Opera Ensemble will present excerpts from Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” Clips from the film “U-Carmen,” a South African adaptation of the opera, will be shown as well. check it out
March 27 — Poet Lee Upton Lee Upton says of her latest book of poetry: “Undid in the Land of Undone meditates on the exhilaration of ambition and the double-edged nature of failure. A failure can bring pain, certainly, but a failure may also signal our ability to act on our best and highest hopes. A failure of our own is more exciting than a success that doesn’t challenge us.” (Remember when you are thinking of a going-away present January of 2008.) check it out
March 27 — A Provocate favorite, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort, returns to Indianapolis. Born Valhyna Martynava in 1981 in Minsk, Valzhyna Mort is famed throughout Europe for her poetry and how she reads it … or more accurately, how she performs it. check it out
