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Day 26 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Robert Frost’s “Birches”
Well, I have done quite a few short poems during this personal challenge of recording and posting a poem each day of National Poetry Month. So this time I thought I’d do a bit of a longer reading for you. I have been wanting to read “Birches” for some time. I grew up a bit…
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Day 25 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Portrait by a Neighbor”
I love used bookstores, and if the used book store has a coffee shop, I will think that I have somehow passed from this life into my great reward. I remember my ex did not like going shopping for books or shoes with me, the shoes because I am hard to fit, and the books…
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Bonus Track: Frank O’Hara’s “Poem”
Actually there are several poems by Frank O’Hara entitled “Poem.” This is just one of my favorites. Since I did a newer Frank reading last night, I thought I’d dig into the old cloth bag and see what I read in the past by him that I could share with you. The video was crudely…
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Day 24 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You”
This one has been a request of a friend’s long before April and National Poetry Month pounced upon me, and since I was eager to include Frank O’Hara in this collection, this just worked out nicely. I love how his complete absence of punctuation speeds up the poem into something of a breathless release of…
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Day 23 – 30 Days, 30 Readings: Gerald Stern, “I Remember Galileo”
After tonight there are only seven days left of National Poetry Month, only seven more poets for me to read. I have not had a plan, or a chart set out from the beginning, and many days I did not know who I would read when I awoke, but this week I started to make…
