RATTAPALLAX POETRY READING AND FILM FESTIVAL features some of the best short films from major international film festivals and distinguished poets. The featured readers are JAMES RAGAN, author of "The Hunger Wall" and NATHALIE HANDAL, author of "Love and Strange Horses." Also, CHRISTOPHER MERRILL, poet and director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, and MEENA ALEXANDER, author of "Illiterate Heart", winner of the PEN Open Book Award. Hosted by editor FLAVIA ROCHA. April 13, 2012 at 7pm at the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, New School, 55 W. 13th St., 2nd Floor, New York. Co-sponsored with the New School Writing Department. Free.