2009 24-Hour Poety Feature Setlist - Part 1
This is the first time I have ever had a 24-hour setlist done within anything resembling reasonable time.
2009 24-Hour Setlist
Hour 1 - 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
(All original work)
Scott Woods - Jesus, Judas and the Case of the Old Woman’s Son (A Murder Mystery)
Scott Woods - What Was Left Out of my Suicide Note
Scott Woods - When the Levees Broke
Scott Woods - Oum Kalthoum
Scott Woods - The Barbecue Zodiac & Astrology Menu
Scott Woods - Cthulu Calls For Love
Scott Woods - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Love Letter, Third Grade
Poems: 7
Hour 2 - 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Elizabeth Alexander - Race
Elizabeth Alexander - Lament
Elizabeth Alexander - The Toni Morrison Dreams
Elizabeth Alexander - Orange
Elizabeth Alexander - Feminist Poem Number One
Elizabeth Alexander - Narrative: Ali
Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot
Elizabeth Alexander - West Indian Primer
Elizabeth Alexander - Zodiac
Elizabeth Alexander - Nineteen
Elizabeth Alexander - Omni - Albert Murray
Elizabeth Alexander - Penmanship
Elizabeth Alexander - Boston Year
Elizabeth Alexander - Four Bongos: Take a Train
Elizabeth Alexander - A Poem for Nelson Mandela
Elizabeth Alexander - Today’s News
Poems: 16
Hour 3 - 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Kim Addonizio - November 11, 2004
Kim Addonizio - Semper
Kim Addonizio - Storm Catechism
Kim Addonizio - Weaponry
Kim Addonizio - News
Kim Addonizio - 31-Year-Old Lover
Kim Addonizio - Death Poem
Kim Addonizio - Glass
Kim Addonizio - Garbage
Kim Addonizio - Things That Don’t Happen
Kim Addonizio - Collapsing Poem
Kim Addonizio - Like That
Kim Addonizio - For Desire
Janine Pommy Vega - The Voices
Janine Pommy Vega - The Lover
Janine Pommy Vega - Home
Janine Pommy Vega - Return to Sender/Inmate is Dead
Janine Pommy Vega -To You on the Other Side of This
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Poetry Reading, Inauguration Night, New York City
Poems: 19
Hour 4 - 11:00 pm - Midnight
C. K. Williams - Ten Below
C. K. Williams - Soon
C. K. Williams - The Gas Station
C. K. Williams - When
C. K. Williams - Chapter Eleven
C. K. Williams - Politics
C. K. Williams - The Call
C. K. Williams - Fragment
C. K. Williams - My Fly
C. K. Williams - Instinct
C. K. Williams - Secrets
C. K. Williams - The Widower
C. K. Williams - Cave
C. K. Williams - The Hearth
Poems: 14
Hour 5 - Midnight - 1:00 am
Kevin Young - Guinea Gall
Kevin Young - Ode to Pork
Kevin Young - Ode to Chicken
Kevin Young - Ode to Crawfish
Kevin Young - Ode to the Buffalo
Kevin Young - Ode to Homemade Wine
Kevin Young - Ode to Okra
Kevin Young - Ode to Kitchen Grease
Kevin Young - Ode to Grits
Kevin Young - Ode to Chitlins
Kevin Young - Ode to Greens
Kevin Young - I Dream a Highway
Kevin Young - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Kevin Young - On Being the Only Black Person at the Johnny Paycheck Concert
Kevin Young - Ode to Catfish
Kevin Young - Prayer for Black-Eyed Peas
Kevin Young - Ode to Gumbo
Kevin Young - Ode to Sweet Potato Pie
Kevin Young - Ode to Barbecue Sauce
Kevin Young - Ode to Watermelon
Kevin Young - Ode to Hot Sauce
Kevin Young - Ode to Boudin
Poems: 22
Hour 6 - 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Philip Levine - Praise
Philip Levine - The West Wind
Philip Levine - Today and Two Thousand Years From Now
Philip Levine - Home for the Holidays
Philip Levine - When the Shift Was Over
Philip Levine - My Given Name
Philip Levine - The Genius
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Ten Things I’ve Told people About Dachsunds…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - For the People Who Keep Asking Me Why Any Real Poet…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Crack Squirrels
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Drunk Boyfriend at the Poetry Reading
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - At the Office Holiday Party
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Notes on Rejection(s)
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Ode to the People who Have Rejected My Work
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Write a Poem About Monsters
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Science Facts That Don’t Apply To ME
Poems: 16
Hour 7 - 2:00 am - 3:00 am
Erica Jong - Alphabet Poem: To the Letter I
Erica Jong - To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace
Erica Jong - My Daughter Says
Erica Jong - The Land of Fuck
Erica Jong - The Demon Lover
Erica Jong - I Sit at My Desk Alone
Erica Jong - Still Life with Tulips
Erica Jong - The Perfect Poet
Erica Jong - The Catch
Erica Jong - To James Boswell in London
Erica Jong - The Commandments
Erica Jong - Seventeen Warnings in Search of a Feminist Poem
Erica Jong - Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit
Erica Jong - To Pablo Neruda
Erica Jong - Egyptology
Erica Jong - What You Need to Be a Writer
Erica Jong - My Love Is Too Much
Poems: 17
Hour 8 - 3:00 am - 4:00 am
Carolyn Forche - The Notebook of Uprising
Carolyn Forche - The Recording Angel
Carolyn Forche - Elegy
Poems: 3
Hour 9 - 4:00 am - 5:00 am
Frank X. Gaspar - I Go Out for a Smoke and Become Mistaken for the Archangel
Frank X. Gaspar - Bright Wings
Frank X. Gaspar - Symposium
Frank X. Gaspar - Isn’t It Enough?
Frank X. Gaspar - Put Your Ear to the Ground
Thomas Sayers Ellis - A Pack of Cigarettes
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Sticks
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Nicknames
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Barracuda
Thomas Sayers Ellis - My Autopsy
Thomas Sayers Ellis - VII - Block Party
Thomas Sayers Ellis - VIII - Tapes
Thomas Sayers Ellis - A Kiss in the Dark
Thomas Sayers Ellis - All Their Stanzas Look Alike
Poems: 14
Hour 10 - 5:00 am - 6:00 am
Hayden Carruth - On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam
Hayden Carruth - Essay on Stone
Hayden Carruth - The Oldest Killed Lake in North America
Hayden Carruth - Sometimes When Lover Lie Quietly Together, Unexpectedly…
Hayden Carruth - The Impossible Indispensability of the Ars Poetica
Hayden Carruth - Prepare
Hayden Carruth - Stink
Hayden Carruth - The Fantastic Names of Jazz
Hayden Carruth - Letter to Denise
Hayden Carruth - Something for the Trade
Hayden Carruth - The New Quarry
Poems: 11
Hour 11 - 6:00 am - 7:00 am
Anne Waldman - Why I Meditate
Anne Waldman - Suppose a Game
Anne Waldman - Paean: May I Speak Thus?
Anne Waldman - Writing
Anne Waldman - What the Policeman Told Me
Anne Waldman - After “The Simplicity of the Unknown Past”
Anne Waldman - Rogue State
Poems: 7
Hour 12 - 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Louise Gluck - The Wild Iris
Louise Gluck - Matins (2)
Louise Gluck -Lamium
Louise Gluck - Spring Snow
Louise Gluck - Matins (3)
Louise Gluck - Retreating Wind
Louise Gluck - The Garden
Louise Gluck - Love in Moonlight
Louise Gluck - Violets
Louise Gluck - Witchgrass
Louise Gluck - Matins (5)
Louise Gluck - Matins (6)
Louise Gluck - Field Flowers
Louise Gluck - Heaven and Earth
Louise Gluck - Daisies
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Dear Avocado
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Why I Shouldn’t Read Books
Poems: 17
Hour 13 - 8:00 am - 9:00 am
A. R. Ammons - The Category of Last Resort
A. R. Ammons - A Pretty Looking Sight
A. R. Ammons - Geezerly
A. R. Ammons - America
A. R. Ammons - In View of the Fact
A. R. Ammons - Get Over It
A. R. Ammons - Focal Lengths
A. R. Ammons - Genetic Counseling
A. R. Ammons - Holliganism
A. R. Ammons - John Henry
A. R. Ammons - Called Into Play
A. R. Ammons - Back-Burned
A. R. Ammons - A Few Acres of Shiny Water
A. R. Ammons - “They said today would be partly cloudy”
A. R. Ammons - Wetter Beather
A. R. Ammons - Depressed Areas
A. R. Ammons - Auditions
A. R. Ammons - Vomit
Poems: 18
Hour 14 - 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Mary Oliver - Everything
Mary Oliver - Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones
Mary Oliver - The Poet With His Face in His Hands
Mary Oliver - Reckless Poem
Mary Oliver - Some Things, Say the Wise Ones
Mary Oliver - Mindful
Mary Oliver - Such Singing in the Wild Branches
Mary Oliver - The Dog Has Run Off Again
Mary Oliver - Am I Not Among the Early Risers
Mary Oliver- Have You Ever Tried To Enter the Long Black Branches
Mary Oliver - Yes! No!
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Secret Language of Nerds
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Unlikely Ways I Was Convinced I Was Going To Die
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Benediction For Prom Night
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The New New Yorker
Poems: 15
Hour 15 - 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mark Strand - The New Poetry Handbook
Mark Strand - Violent Storm
Mark Strand - Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Mark Strand - The Good Life
Mark Strand - The Hill
Mark Strand - From a Litany
Mark Strand - Elegy for My Father
Mark Strand - She
Mark Strand - Two Horses
Mark Strand - 2002
Mark Strand - Man and Camel
Mark Strand - Cake
Mark Strand - 2032
Mark Strand - Mother and Son
Mark Strand - Moon
Mark Strand -My Name
Mark Strand - Fiction
Poems: 17
Hour 16 - 11:00 am - Noon
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Dreaming in Broad Daylight
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Waterfall at Como Park
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Home Before Dark
Roberta Hill Whiteman - One More Sign
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Waiting for Robinson
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Speaking through the Generations
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Reparations
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Being Indian
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Letting Go
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Wolf Smoke
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Wish From an Office Window
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Morning Talk
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Your Fierce Resistance
Roberta Hill Whiteman - The Powwow Crowd
Poems: 14
Hour 17 - Noon - 1:00 pm
Charles Bukowksi - The Lost Generation
Charles Bukowski - My Non-Ambitious Ambition
Charles Bukowksi - Downtown L.A.
Charles Bukowski - Another Casualty
Charles Bukowski - That’s Why Funerals Are So Sad
Charles Bukowski - Bumming with Jane
Charles Bukowski - Termites of the Page
Charles Bukowski - A Non-Urgent Poem
Charles Bukowski - For My Ivy League Friends
Charles Bukowski - The Master Plan
Charles Bukowski - My Vanishing Act
Charles Bukowski - I’ll Take It…
Charles Bukowski - Coffee
Charles Bukowski - The Passing of a Great One
Charles Bukowski - Some Suggestions
Charles Bukowski - The Boil
Charles Bukowski - I’m Not a Misogynist
Charles Bukowski - It’s Funny, Isn’t It? #1
Charles Bukowski - An Ordinary Poem
Charles Bukowski - Murder
Poems: 20
Hour 18 - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
William Stafford - Putting the Sonnet to Work
William Stafford - You Reading This, Be Ready
William Stafford - Growing Up
William Stafford - Lit Instructor
William Stafford - Adults Only
William Stafford - Representing Far Places
William Stafford - At the Chairman’s Housewarming
William Stafford - At the Grave of My Brother
William Stafford - New Letters from Thomas Jefferson
William Stafford - The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune
William Stafford - Why I Am a Poet
William Stafford - History Display
William Stafford - A Farewell, Age Ten
William Stafford - Poetry
William Stafford - Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing
William Stafford - Keeping a Journal
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Most Magical Place on Earth
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Literal Portrait if the Writer as a Twelve-Year-Old
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Youngest Kid Lament
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Our Year of Smut
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Presidential Flash Cards
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Every Winter, People Think My Boyfriend is Elvis Costello
Poems: 22
Hour 19 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Natasha Trethewery - At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950
Natasha Trethewery - Three Photographs
Natasha Trethewery - Tableau
Natasha Trethewery - At the Station
Natasha Trethewery - Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945
Natasha Trethewery - His Hands
Natasha Trethewery - Hot Combs
Natasha Trethewery - Microscope
Natasha Trethewery - Saturday Matinee
Natasha Trethewery - Gathering
Natasha Trethewery - Carpenter Bee
Natasha Trethewery - What the Body Can Say
Natasha Trethewery - What Is Evidence
Natasha Trethewery - Miscegenation
Natasha Trethewery - My Mother Dream Another Country
Natasha Trethewery - Southern History
Natasha Trethewery - Incident
Natasha Trethewery - Providence
Poems: 18
Hour 20 - 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sharon Olds - Ecstasy
Sharon Olds - Exclusive
Sharon Olds - Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds - The Missing Boy
Sharon Olds - The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
Sharon Olds - The Girl
Sharon Olds - Alcatraz
Sharon Olds - Topography
Sharon Olds - His Stillness
Sharon Olds - The Race
Sharon Olds - Wonder
Sharon Olds - The Feelings
Sharon Olds - Waste Sonata
Sharon Olds - What Is the Earth?
Sharon Olds - The Talkers
Sharon Olds- Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
Sharon Olds - Grey Girl
Poems: 17
Continued in next post.
2009 24-Hour Setlist
Hour 1 - 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
(All original work)
Scott Woods - Jesus, Judas and the Case of the Old Woman’s Son (A Murder Mystery)
Scott Woods - What Was Left Out of my Suicide Note
Scott Woods - When the Levees Broke
Scott Woods - Oum Kalthoum
Scott Woods - The Barbecue Zodiac & Astrology Menu
Scott Woods - Cthulu Calls For Love
Scott Woods - Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Love Letter, Third Grade
Poems: 7
Hour 2 - 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Elizabeth Alexander - Race
Elizabeth Alexander - Lament
Elizabeth Alexander - The Toni Morrison Dreams
Elizabeth Alexander - Orange
Elizabeth Alexander - Feminist Poem Number One
Elizabeth Alexander - Narrative: Ali
Elizabeth Alexander - The Venus Hottentot
Elizabeth Alexander - West Indian Primer
Elizabeth Alexander - Zodiac
Elizabeth Alexander - Nineteen
Elizabeth Alexander - Omni - Albert Murray
Elizabeth Alexander - Penmanship
Elizabeth Alexander - Boston Year
Elizabeth Alexander - Four Bongos: Take a Train
Elizabeth Alexander - A Poem for Nelson Mandela
Elizabeth Alexander - Today’s News
Poems: 16
Hour 3 - 10:00 pm - 11:00 pm
Kim Addonizio - November 11, 2004
Kim Addonizio - Semper
Kim Addonizio - Storm Catechism
Kim Addonizio - Weaponry
Kim Addonizio - News
Kim Addonizio - 31-Year-Old Lover
Kim Addonizio - Death Poem
Kim Addonizio - Glass
Kim Addonizio - Garbage
Kim Addonizio - Things That Don’t Happen
Kim Addonizio - Collapsing Poem
Kim Addonizio - Like That
Kim Addonizio - For Desire
Janine Pommy Vega - The Voices
Janine Pommy Vega - The Lover
Janine Pommy Vega - Home
Janine Pommy Vega - Return to Sender/Inmate is Dead
Janine Pommy Vega -To You on the Other Side of This
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Poetry Reading, Inauguration Night, New York City
Poems: 19
Hour 4 - 11:00 pm - Midnight
C. K. Williams - Ten Below
C. K. Williams - Soon
C. K. Williams - The Gas Station
C. K. Williams - When
C. K. Williams - Chapter Eleven
C. K. Williams - Politics
C. K. Williams - The Call
C. K. Williams - Fragment
C. K. Williams - My Fly
C. K. Williams - Instinct
C. K. Williams - Secrets
C. K. Williams - The Widower
C. K. Williams - Cave
C. K. Williams - The Hearth
Poems: 14
Hour 5 - Midnight - 1:00 am
Kevin Young - Guinea Gall
Kevin Young - Ode to Pork
Kevin Young - Ode to Chicken
Kevin Young - Ode to Crawfish
Kevin Young - Ode to the Buffalo
Kevin Young - Ode to Homemade Wine
Kevin Young - Ode to Okra
Kevin Young - Ode to Kitchen Grease
Kevin Young - Ode to Grits
Kevin Young - Ode to Chitlins
Kevin Young - Ode to Greens
Kevin Young - I Dream a Highway
Kevin Young - I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
Kevin Young - On Being the Only Black Person at the Johnny Paycheck Concert
Kevin Young - Ode to Catfish
Kevin Young - Prayer for Black-Eyed Peas
Kevin Young - Ode to Gumbo
Kevin Young - Ode to Sweet Potato Pie
Kevin Young - Ode to Barbecue Sauce
Kevin Young - Ode to Watermelon
Kevin Young - Ode to Hot Sauce
Kevin Young - Ode to Boudin
Poems: 22
Hour 6 - 1:00 am - 2:00 am
Philip Levine - Praise
Philip Levine - The West Wind
Philip Levine - Today and Two Thousand Years From Now
Philip Levine - Home for the Holidays
Philip Levine - When the Shift Was Over
Philip Levine - My Given Name
Philip Levine - The Genius
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Ten Things I’ve Told people About Dachsunds…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - For the People Who Keep Asking Me Why Any Real Poet…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Crack Squirrels
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Drunk Boyfriend at the Poetry Reading
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - At the Office Holiday Party
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Notes on Rejection(s)
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Ode to the People who Have Rejected My Work
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Write a Poem About Monsters
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Science Facts That Don’t Apply To ME
Poems: 16
Hour 7 - 2:00 am - 3:00 am
Erica Jong - Alphabet Poem: To the Letter I
Erica Jong - To My Brother Poet, Seeking Peace
Erica Jong - My Daughter Says
Erica Jong - The Land of Fuck
Erica Jong - The Demon Lover
Erica Jong - I Sit at My Desk Alone
Erica Jong - Still Life with Tulips
Erica Jong - The Perfect Poet
Erica Jong - The Catch
Erica Jong - To James Boswell in London
Erica Jong - The Commandments
Erica Jong - Seventeen Warnings in Search of a Feminist Poem
Erica Jong - Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit
Erica Jong - To Pablo Neruda
Erica Jong - Egyptology
Erica Jong - What You Need to Be a Writer
Erica Jong - My Love Is Too Much
Poems: 17
Hour 8 - 3:00 am - 4:00 am
Carolyn Forche - The Notebook of Uprising
Carolyn Forche - The Recording Angel
Carolyn Forche - Elegy
Poems: 3
Hour 9 - 4:00 am - 5:00 am
Frank X. Gaspar - I Go Out for a Smoke and Become Mistaken for the Archangel
Frank X. Gaspar - Bright Wings
Frank X. Gaspar - Symposium
Frank X. Gaspar - Isn’t It Enough?
Frank X. Gaspar - Put Your Ear to the Ground
Thomas Sayers Ellis - A Pack of Cigarettes
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Sticks
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Nicknames
Thomas Sayers Ellis - Barracuda
Thomas Sayers Ellis - My Autopsy
Thomas Sayers Ellis - VII - Block Party
Thomas Sayers Ellis - VIII - Tapes
Thomas Sayers Ellis - A Kiss in the Dark
Thomas Sayers Ellis - All Their Stanzas Look Alike
Poems: 14
Hour 10 - 5:00 am - 6:00 am
Hayden Carruth - On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam
Hayden Carruth - Essay on Stone
Hayden Carruth - The Oldest Killed Lake in North America
Hayden Carruth - Sometimes When Lover Lie Quietly Together, Unexpectedly…
Hayden Carruth - The Impossible Indispensability of the Ars Poetica
Hayden Carruth - Prepare
Hayden Carruth - Stink
Hayden Carruth - The Fantastic Names of Jazz
Hayden Carruth - Letter to Denise
Hayden Carruth - Something for the Trade
Hayden Carruth - The New Quarry
Poems: 11
Hour 11 - 6:00 am - 7:00 am
Anne Waldman - Why I Meditate
Anne Waldman - Suppose a Game
Anne Waldman - Paean: May I Speak Thus?
Anne Waldman - Writing
Anne Waldman - What the Policeman Told Me
Anne Waldman - After “The Simplicity of the Unknown Past”
Anne Waldman - Rogue State
Poems: 7
Hour 12 - 7:00 am - 8:00 am
Louise Gluck - The Wild Iris
Louise Gluck - Matins (2)
Louise Gluck -Lamium
Louise Gluck - Spring Snow
Louise Gluck - Matins (3)
Louise Gluck - Retreating Wind
Louise Gluck - The Garden
Louise Gluck - Love in Moonlight
Louise Gluck - Violets
Louise Gluck - Witchgrass
Louise Gluck - Matins (5)
Louise Gluck - Matins (6)
Louise Gluck - Field Flowers
Louise Gluck - Heaven and Earth
Louise Gluck - Daisies
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Dear Avocado
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Why I Shouldn’t Read Books
Poems: 17
Hour 13 - 8:00 am - 9:00 am
A. R. Ammons - The Category of Last Resort
A. R. Ammons - A Pretty Looking Sight
A. R. Ammons - Geezerly
A. R. Ammons - America
A. R. Ammons - In View of the Fact
A. R. Ammons - Get Over It
A. R. Ammons - Focal Lengths
A. R. Ammons - Genetic Counseling
A. R. Ammons - Holliganism
A. R. Ammons - John Henry
A. R. Ammons - Called Into Play
A. R. Ammons - Back-Burned
A. R. Ammons - A Few Acres of Shiny Water
A. R. Ammons - “They said today would be partly cloudy”
A. R. Ammons - Wetter Beather
A. R. Ammons - Depressed Areas
A. R. Ammons - Auditions
A. R. Ammons - Vomit
Poems: 18
Hour 14 - 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Mary Oliver - Everything
Mary Oliver - Mysteries, Four of the Simple Ones
Mary Oliver - The Poet With His Face in His Hands
Mary Oliver - Reckless Poem
Mary Oliver - Some Things, Say the Wise Ones
Mary Oliver - Mindful
Mary Oliver - Such Singing in the Wild Branches
Mary Oliver - The Dog Has Run Off Again
Mary Oliver - Am I Not Among the Early Risers
Mary Oliver- Have You Ever Tried To Enter the Long Black Branches
Mary Oliver - Yes! No!
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Secret Language of Nerds
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Unlikely Ways I Was Convinced I Was Going To Die
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Benediction For Prom Night
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The New New Yorker
Poems: 15
Hour 15 - 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mark Strand - The New Poetry Handbook
Mark Strand - Violent Storm
Mark Strand - Old People on the Nursing Home Porch
Mark Strand - The Good Life
Mark Strand - The Hill
Mark Strand - From a Litany
Mark Strand - Elegy for My Father
Mark Strand - She
Mark Strand - Two Horses
Mark Strand - 2002
Mark Strand - Man and Camel
Mark Strand - Cake
Mark Strand - 2032
Mark Strand - Mother and Son
Mark Strand - Moon
Mark Strand -My Name
Mark Strand - Fiction
Poems: 17
Hour 16 - 11:00 am - Noon
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Dreaming in Broad Daylight
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Waterfall at Como Park
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Home Before Dark
Roberta Hill Whiteman - One More Sign
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Waiting for Robinson
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Speaking through the Generations
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Reparations
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Being Indian
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Letting Go
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Wolf Smoke
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Wish From an Office Window
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Morning Talk
Roberta Hill Whiteman - Your Fierce Resistance
Roberta Hill Whiteman - The Powwow Crowd
Poems: 14
Hour 17 - Noon - 1:00 pm
Charles Bukowksi - The Lost Generation
Charles Bukowski - My Non-Ambitious Ambition
Charles Bukowksi - Downtown L.A.
Charles Bukowski - Another Casualty
Charles Bukowski - That’s Why Funerals Are So Sad
Charles Bukowski - Bumming with Jane
Charles Bukowski - Termites of the Page
Charles Bukowski - A Non-Urgent Poem
Charles Bukowski - For My Ivy League Friends
Charles Bukowski - The Master Plan
Charles Bukowski - My Vanishing Act
Charles Bukowski - I’ll Take It…
Charles Bukowski - Coffee
Charles Bukowski - The Passing of a Great One
Charles Bukowski - Some Suggestions
Charles Bukowski - The Boil
Charles Bukowski - I’m Not a Misogynist
Charles Bukowski - It’s Funny, Isn’t It? #1
Charles Bukowski - An Ordinary Poem
Charles Bukowski - Murder
Poems: 20
Hour 18 - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
William Stafford - Putting the Sonnet to Work
William Stafford - You Reading This, Be Ready
William Stafford - Growing Up
William Stafford - Lit Instructor
William Stafford - Adults Only
William Stafford - Representing Far Places
William Stafford - At the Chairman’s Housewarming
William Stafford - At the Grave of My Brother
William Stafford - New Letters from Thomas Jefferson
William Stafford - The Little Ways That Encourage Good Fortune
William Stafford - Why I Am a Poet
William Stafford - History Display
William Stafford - A Farewell, Age Ten
William Stafford - Poetry
William Stafford - Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing
William Stafford - Keeping a Journal
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Most Magical Place on Earth
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Literal Portrait if the Writer as a Twelve-Year-Old
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - The Youngest Kid Lament
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Our Year of Smut
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Presidential Flash Cards
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz - Every Winter, People Think My Boyfriend is Elvis Costello
Poems: 22
Hour 19 - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Natasha Trethewery - At the Owl Club, North Gulfport, Mississippi, 1950
Natasha Trethewery - Three Photographs
Natasha Trethewery - Tableau
Natasha Trethewery - At the Station
Natasha Trethewery - Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945
Natasha Trethewery - His Hands
Natasha Trethewery - Hot Combs
Natasha Trethewery - Microscope
Natasha Trethewery - Saturday Matinee
Natasha Trethewery - Gathering
Natasha Trethewery - Carpenter Bee
Natasha Trethewery - What the Body Can Say
Natasha Trethewery - What Is Evidence
Natasha Trethewery - Miscegenation
Natasha Trethewery - My Mother Dream Another Country
Natasha Trethewery - Southern History
Natasha Trethewery - Incident
Natasha Trethewery - Providence
Poems: 18
Hour 20 - 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sharon Olds - Ecstasy
Sharon Olds - Exclusive
Sharon Olds - Rite of Passage
Sharon Olds - The Missing Boy
Sharon Olds - The One Girl at the Boys’ Party
Sharon Olds - The Girl
Sharon Olds - Alcatraz
Sharon Olds - Topography
Sharon Olds - His Stillness
Sharon Olds - The Race
Sharon Olds - Wonder
Sharon Olds - The Feelings
Sharon Olds - Waste Sonata
Sharon Olds - What Is the Earth?
Sharon Olds - The Talkers
Sharon Olds- Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
Sharon Olds - Grey Girl
Poems: 17
Continued in next post.