In March of 2003, a young Basque poet and four friends - three musicians and an artist - came to New York City almost by chance, to do a half dozen bilingual poetry evenings, with music.
The six or seven hundred thousand Basque speakers in the world today "can fit into a New York neighborhood", the poet, Kirmen Uribe, says in AGIAN / MAYBE. "So what does a community that fits into a neighborhood have to offer the world? Or in that city that's the center of the world, what can it offer?"