Annual Hollywood Does Poetry Benefit for Bowery Arts & Science . Sunday, May 2, 2010 at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (Bleecker-Houston). Hollywood stars read poems, and we all have fun in support of the nonprofit that brings you the programming at the Bowery Poetry Club, from Poetry Slams to American Sign Language performances, from West African griots to hiphop, “A beacon on the Bowery” – NY Times.

Performers will include:

Patricia Clarkson: Shutter Island, Whatever Works, Cairo Time

Claire Danes: Temple Grandin, My Fair Lady

Hugh Dancy: Adam, The Pride, James Gandolfini, In the Loop, Where the Wild Things Are

Vincent Katz (poet, Chair of the Board of Bowery Arts & Science): Libellum, Vanitas

Sapphire: Precious based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (on the Board of Bowery Arts & Science)

Amber Tamblyn: Bang Ditto, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Tickets: $100 reading only; $150 reading + pre-reading cocktails with artists; $300 reading + cocktails plus afterparty at Bob Holman’s. Buy a table for four: $1000

Benefit hotline: 212-614-0504 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              212-614-0504      end_of_the_skype_highlighting can be used to purchase tickets – leave phone number and General Manager David Brouillard will respond or purchase through Paypal via the link below.