The Friends of the Newman Library and the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health (PCMH) Library Advisory Committee present the Seventh Annual Evening In The Oak Room. The evening's featured speaker, Barbara Pizer, faculty and board member, and supervising analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, reads from two papers and talks about how psychoanalysts may theorize the therapeutic action of reading and hearing poetry. A Q&A session follows. Russell Merritt, Chair of the Library Advisory Committee, makes the opening remarks. Ona Lindquist, Chair, Community Relations, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, introduces the speaker. The event takes place on November 9, 2007, in the Oak Room of the Baruch College Newman Library.