Howard Pflanzer will read/perform with El Tahra Ibrahim from his new book, DEAD BIRDS or AVIAN BLUES, celebrating the birds and animals commenting on the human condition in edgy short plays and poems with surreal illustrations by Juliane Pieper. Pflanzer is a playwright and poet. His plays and musicals have been performed at LaMaMa ETC, Playwrights Horizons, Symphony Space, Medicine Show Theatre (Living with History: Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir), Kraine Theater (Cocaine Dreams) and The Living Theatre and broadcast over WNYC and WBAI FM. He has received fellowships and commissioning grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, ASCAP, the Puffin Foundation, the NEA (Media Arts co-winner), the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, as well as a Fulbright Scholar award to conduct theatre workshops and direct in India.