Séamas Cain in Edinburgh, Scotland

[Silver Birch Press]

SÉAMAS CAIN IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
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     The American poet and performance-artist Séamas Cain will speak at 7:30 
p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at THE FOREST Arts Centre, 9 West Port 
Street, Off the Grassmarket, in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Admission will be 
free.

     Cain, in his youth, participated in Martin Luther King's Selma freedom 
march [a formative and decisive moment in his life].  Later, Cain was one of 
the organizers of the National Mobilization against the Vietnam War, and a 
protester against the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago 
[the protests effectively ended the political careers of Hubert Humphrey and 
President Lyndon Johnson].

     Séamas Cain was a face-to-face friend of Dorothy Day, Sam and Esther 
Dolgoff, the novelist and playwright Jean Genet, the poet Allen Ginsberg, 
Paul Goodman, Ammon Hennacy, Martin Luther King, the poet Howard McCord, 
Thomas Merton, and the poet Kenneth Rexroth - as well as members of the 
Living Theater, the Firehouse Theater, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and 
the initiators of the FLUXUS movement in the arts, etc.

     Cain is a descendant of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.  John Stuart, the 
bastard of the Bonnie Prince by a daughter of The Stewart of Appin, was 
compelled to leave Scotland with the 78th Highland Regiment in "the French 
and Indian" War of 1763.  John Stuart participated in the Siege of Montréal 
and other dramatic events, finally becoming the first European to settle in 
the Miramichi region of the province of New Brunswick in Canada.  Cain's 
grandfather, born at Old North Esk on the Miramichi, wrote poems in 
Gàidhlig.

     You will find an Artist's Résumé for Séamas Cain at 
<http://www.mnartists.org/artistHome.do?action=info&rid=685>.  It is located 
on the "Minnesota Artists" web-site, created by the Walker Art Center and 
the McKnight Foundation as a resource for artists in Minnesota.

     You will find Cain's poetry and performance web-site at 
<http://seamascain.writernetwork.com>.  Comments on his work are included on 
the COMMENTS-page of this web-site at 
<http://seamascain.writernetwork.com/custom.html>.

     Some of Cain's chapbooks are listed in COPAC, the library database for 
Britain.  More of Cain's works are listed in the OCLC WORLDCAT [sometimes 
called FirstSearch], the U.S. library database.

     Recently, Séamas Cain was a member of the original group with Sam 
Hamill who organized the "Poets Against the War" project in the U.S.  Now, 
more than 13,000 poets have joined this endeavor!  For additional 
information, and description of activities, please examine the web-site at 
<http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org>.

     The web-sites of THE FOREST Arts Centre in Edinburgh may be explored at 
<http://www.theforest.org.uk> and 
<http://www.theforest.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk>.

     Repeating, the American poet and performance-artist Séamas Cain will 
speak at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at THE FOREST Arts Centre, 9 
West Port Street, Off the Grassmarket, in Edinburgh, Scotland.  Admission 
will be free.

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