UNITED NATIONS SOCIETY OF WRITERS SPONSORS A POETRY READING ON THE LAKE
On Saturday 10 March beginning at 11 a.m. and continuing until well past noon, the United Nations Society of Writers/Société des Ecrivains des Nations Unies and its literary journal Ex Tempore co-sponsored a “happening” at the Bains de Paquis, including the reading of lake poetry by Alphonse de Lamartine, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hermann Hesse, with translations into English and Russian. Under a pristine blue sky, balmy winds, and facing the glory of the jet d’eau rising majestically over…