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Poetry Month 2015: Maria Melendez
ARS POETICA: PLATANUS RACEMOSA by Maria Melendez Here’s amor, clawing the skin of sycamores— track it by the jagged patches of bare trunk exposed between pieces of broken bark. Who should you ask about the way love picks at the surface puzzle, crunches away the discernable for the porous inner wood? How did those “clever natives” know boiled bark could treat a springtime wheeze? A little trial and error, sure, but mostly, the tree asked to be used that way.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: “A Marked Man” On Stage
Last night I attended a rehearsal for this Thursday’s performance of my historical narrative poem “A Marked Man,” mounted by Director Ed Osborn and nine actors of his Living Room Theatre. I have to say, it’s strange and wonderful to hear words I’ve heard only in my own head (and voice, when I’ve read pieces from this lengthy poem) voiced by professional actors. It was both a pleasure and an illumination.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Seán Ó Ríordáin
LISTEN TO THE RIVER SPEAK by Seán Ó Ríordáin Translation by Diarmuid Johnson We went walking by night A woman and three men And the river spoke to itself incessantly And though there was much I could not grasp I knew it was utterly sincere And I knew not a drop of what it said was conceit But the lucid dialogue proper to water.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Tamura Ryuichi
PERHAPS A GREAT POEM by Tamura Ryuichi (trans.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: John Levy
A handful of poems by John Levy…. (AFTER BASHŌ) My poems aren’t really mine. Any more than a frog owns its croak or its splash as it dives beneath the green surface. You see the surface translated into language ripples. (The frog invisible, immersed.) * EMILY DICKINSON AND N Emily Dickinson: “. . . to N’s I had an especial aversion, as they always seemed unfinished M’s.” A world of the unfinished next to the finished.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Aaron A. Abeyta
MIXED METAPHOR (INSPIRATIONAL HYMN) by Aaron A.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Auraria Writers Week
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Poetry Month 2015: Propertius
ELEGY III.3 by Sextus Propertius (trans. David R. Slavitt) A vision: I’m sprawled on the shady grass of a mountainside. It’s Helicon, near the spring Bellerophon’s horse made with its hoof, and the world is bright and clear and small, like something a jeweler had made, and my mind is affected. I have the peculiar idea that I could take up the lyre and sing of Alba’s kings and their deeds of yore.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Reading at Red Rocks Community College
This reading is free and open to the public. Come on down! Red Rocks Community College is at 13300 West 6th Avenue Lakewood CO 80228.Read More
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Poetry Month 2015: Headwaters Poetry Festival
Click Here for More Information The first annual Headwaters Poetry Festival kicks off this April at the Gunnison Arts Center. In coordination with Western State Colorado University’s Department of Communication Arts, Languages & Literature, we are excited to present an inspiring collection of readings, panel discussions and workshops. Visiting poets from the Western Slope include Wendy Videlock, Art Goodtimes, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer and Kyle Harvey along with local poets David Rothman, George Sibley, Alan Wartes, Toni Todd, Elizabyth Hiscox, Mark Todd and Douglas Jones.Read More