S�AMAS CAIN IN EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
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The American poet and performance-artist S�amas
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].
S�amas 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, 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 Montr�al 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
G�idhlig.
You will find an Artist's R�sum� for S�amas 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, S�amas 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 S�amas 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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