Director, Poetry Project
Some friends and I wanted to work together and memorize some poetry, so we had a couple meetings and came up with a list of loosely related poems we all like, memorized them, and then met a few more times at my old church to devise a little staged recital. About six people were there, if I recall. I remember it as a runaway success.
Ft. Phoebe Silva, Lilia Smith, Cassidy Keenan, Caleb Conner, Emil Ginter. Photo by Caspar Carter
The Poems:
- Via Negativa – Brett Foster
- You up? – Rachelle Toarmino
- Having a Coke with You – Frank O’Hara
- [somewhere I have never travelled,gladly beyond] – E. E. Cummings
- Ella Mason and Her Eleven Cats – Sylvia Plath
- Wild Geese – Mary Oliver
- What the Living Do – Marie Howe
- George Gray – Edgar Lee Masters
- You Are Tired (I Think) – E. E. Cummings
- Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong – Ocean Vuong
- Words for It – Julia Cameron
- Trying to Pray – James Arlington Wright
- I Have Good News – Tony Hoagland
- The Waking – Theodore Roethke