January 11, 1999

Poet Peter Cole to Read Medieval and Contemporary
Hebrew Poetry at Middlebury College on Jan. 25

Poet Peter Cole will read from his own work and the
work of medieval and contemporary Hebrew poets in translation
in the Abernethy Room of Starr Library at Middlebury College at
4 p.m. on Jan. 25. Starr Library is on Old Chapel Road off South
Main Street (Route 30). The event is free and open to the public.

Cole, who lives in Jerusalem, is the author of two
books of poems, “Rift” and “Hymns and Qualms”
(Sheep Meadow Press). His translations include “Selected
Poems of Shmuel Hanagid” (Princeton University Press); “Love
and Selected Poems of Aharon Shabtai” (Sheep Meadow Press);
and “From Island to Island” by Harold Schimmel (Ibis
Editions).

For more information, contact Assistant Professor
of English Robert Cohen at 802-443-2426.