"Singing songs in whole or in part"
Jones, Pessoa, Stone, Kelly, Pollock
Summer Guided Poetry Reading Groups are available!
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WEDNESDAY
6-8 pm EST
May 28, June 25, July 30, August 27
Bert Meyers, Bert Meyers: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades, 2023)
Patricia Spears Jones, The Beloved Community (Copper Canyon, 2023)
James Pollock, Durable Goods (Signal Editions, 2023)
Stefanie Marlis, Rife (Sarabande, 1998)
THURSDAY
10 am-12 pm EST
May 29, June 26, July 31, August 28
Peggy Shumaker, Still Water Carving Light (Red Hen, 2025)
Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You (BOA Editions, 1990)
Saskia Hamilton, All Souls (Graywolf, 2023)
Tomas Tranströmer, Selected Poems, ed. Robert Hass (Ecco, 1987)
SUNDAY
11 am-1 pm EST
May 25, June 29, July 27, August 24
Lucia Perillo, Inseminating the Elephant (Copper Canyon, 2009)
Katie Peterson, A Piece of Good News (FSG, 2018)
Etheridge Knight, The Essential Etheridge Knight (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1986)
Valérie Rouzeau, Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009)
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Patrica Spears Jones:
Fernando Pessoa (tr. from Portuguese by Richard Zenith):
Ruth Stone:
Brigit Pegeen Kelly:
James Pollock:
You really get the sense of blowing laundry in Ruth Stone’s poem. It’s wonderful.
Brigit Pegeen Kelly's "Doing Laundry on Sunday" took me straight to my grandmother's "back line" where sheets and tees danced in the breeze, allowing frequent peeks of peaches and apricots ripening on leafy trees, promising jam and pie and juicy treats in just a few weeks. Of course we never did laundry on Sunday -- oh no! Monday. Laundry's always done on Monday.