The American Poets Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine presents the annual Maundy Thursday reading of Dante's Inferno! Download the leaflet: http://stjohndivine.org/uploads/pages... Dante Alighieri wrote at a time of great political upheaval and widespread plague, and throughout the Inferno, the first section of the Divine Comedy, he strives to come closer to God by journeying through the depths of human pain and adversity, descending to the world of the dead on Maundy Thursday and finally achieving union with the Divine on Easter Sunday. The Cathedral’s newly appointed Poet in Residence, Marie Howe, will lead the reading, joined by poets and memoirists Eileen Myles and Nick Flynn; noted translator Michael Palma; new literary voices Zakiya Harris and Daniel Barnum; and many more. Dante scholar Anthony Viscusi will conclude the reading with the final canto of the Inferno, read in the original Italian.