Another event for the Laureate Poetry Series organized by Jay Rogoff, the Poet Laureate of Saratoga Springs, NY, for National Poetry Month this held at the Saratoga Springs Public Library. I've included the entire list of poems below because it makes for an eclectic reading list across the ages. I'm guessing that each of the readers below have more than one "favorite poem," as indeed I do.
A couple of program notes: Jay Rogoff started off the reading with "West Wind," by that most prolific of writers, Anonymous; Joe Bruchac introduced his reading by singing a Lakota song; & Adriana DiScipio came up from New York City read. The Dutcher Room at the Library was filled with listeners & readers, from throughout the region.
POET POEM READER
Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach” Peg Boyers
Amiri Baraka “Preface to a Twenty Volune Suicide Note” Michael Walterich
Jack Butler “The Changing of Vision with Time” George Drew
Or, A Vision in A Dream A Fragment”
Jack Hirschman “Path” Kristina Kulin
Bob Kaufman “Believe, Believe” Dan Wilcox
Ted Kooser “A Glint.” Johanna Garrison
Adrian Mitchell “To All in the So-Called Defense
Marge Piercy “To Be of Use” Adriana Di Scipio
Sylvia Plath “I Am Vertical” Autumn Connor
Rumi (trans. Coleman Barks) “A Community of the Spirit” Kathleen McCoy
Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” Leslie Mechem
William Stafford “Report to Crazy Horse” Joseph Bruchac
Frank Stanford “The Singing Knives” Steve Stern
Sara Teasdale “There Will Come Soft Rains” Barbara Ungar
William Wordsworth From “Ode: Intimations of Immortality
William Butler Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium” Jay Rogoff
Add-ons:
William Shakespeare "Sonnet 29" Michael Arnish
Wendell Barry "The Want of Peace" Michael Lubell
John McCrae "In Flander's Field" Robert Ridley
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