2011 02 03

Almanac — George Crabbe d.1832; Sidney Lanier b.1842; Gertrude Stein b.1874; Georg Trakl b.1887; James Kenneth Stephen d.1892; Robert Duncan d.1988; Larry Eigner d.1996

Reading, each both silently and aloud —

1. A White Hunter — Gertrude Stein (b.2/3/1874) [Poetry Foundation^♠] Precisely.
2. The Spell Weaver — Kate Bernadette Benedict [Lilt]
3. Two poems: (1) To enter in passing; and (2) A frame in which a window — Alan Felsenthal [Improbable Object] “a fire centered in itself”
4. Packing Her Things — Liz Rosenberg [Thethe Poetry Blog] “I wept like an orphaned child.”
5. The End of the World Weather — Gale Renee Walden [Exquisite Corpse^♥] Easy.
6. The Man In The Dead Machine — Donald Hall [E-Verse Radio] “Or say the shrapnel / missed him” – and that was easy too.
7. Burned Man ♫ — David Huddle [The Writer's Almanac^♠] “made you / look away” – and that was easy too.
8. Dip My Pacifier in Whiskey ♫ — Mathias Nelson [Rattle^♥] Whiskey, makes it go down easy every time, don’t it now.
9. After Reading Han-Shan — Thomas Rain Crowe [Asheville Poetry Review^♥] “How much alike are the wise man / and the drunk!”
10. The Ballade of the Incompetent Ballade-Monger — James Kenneth Stephen (d.2/3/1892) [Representative Poetry Online] “When your brain is undoubtedly small, / ‘Tis hard, sir, to write in a row”
11. Such Is the Sickness of Many a Good Thing — Robert Duncan (d.2/3/1988) [Poets.org^♠]
12. Forecast — Melanie McCabe [Poetry Daily^♠] “there will be no need for me to break my word / or utter one.”
13. More reading and re-archiving from the Internet Archive: Transcience — Paul O’Prey [Electric Acorn^♥]
14. Pulse — Stacy Kidd [Verse Daily^♠]
15. Closer — Wendy Brown-Báez [Poem of the Day] “the pulse / of your rhythm / in me”
16. Bumps — Jessy Randall [No Tell Motel^♠] Oh, and those speed ones, don’t forget them.
17. Good Hair — Sherman Alexie [Poets.org^♠] Which I’ll use to open up my ghazal collection.
18. When She Wouldn’t — Wesley McNair [Poetry Foundation^♠]
19. Their Bodies ♫ — David Wagoner [Poetry Foundation^♠]
20. Ikebana — Cathy Song [Poetry Out Loud^♠]
21. The Mermaid Tavern ♫ — John Keats [Poetry Moment]
22. The Rights of Women — Anna Lætitia Barbauld [Representative Poetry Online]
23. Slow Reader — Vicki Feaver [Poetry Archive] All too familiar from the other side of it.
24. Before the Birth of One of Her Children — Anne Bradstreet [Poetry In Voice]
25. thirsty (excerpt) — Dionne Brand [Canadian Poetry Online]
26. Portrait of My Mother as the Republic of Texas ♫ — James Allen Hall [From the Fishouse]
27. The Yellow Rose of Texas — [Anonymous] [Black Cat Poems]
28. Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats; with reading by Richard Fammerée ♫ [Poets on Poets]
29. In Memoriam A. H. H.: ◄ II ► — Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Wikisource] “I seem to fail from out my blood / And grow incorporate into thee.”
30. ◄ Sonnet XXXIV ► — William Shakespeare [EServer Poetry Collection] “Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day, / And make me travel forth without my cloak” . . . smirking at that one down here today, aren’t we.
31. ◄ Cradle Song ► — [Anonymous] [The Oxford Book of English Verse]
32. The Raven and Other Poems: ◄ Lenore ► — Edgar Allan Poe [Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore] “A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young”
33. A Boy’s Will: ◄ Stars ► — Robert Frost [Wikisource] “Without the gift of sight” and sang they much the same of him, no doubt.
34. Watch Repair — Charles Simic [Poem of the Week (Sarah E. Smith)] “Tiny golden mills / Grinding invisible / Coffee beans.”
35. The Marshes of Glynn — Sidney Lanier (b.2/3/1842) [Wikisource]
36. The Borough — George Crabbe (d.2/3/1832) [Wikisource]
37. The Ravens — Georg Trakl (b.2/3/1887) (translated by Jim Doss and Werner Schmitt) [Wersch's Website for Georg Trakl]
38. A Selection of poems from “the” — Larry Eigner (d.2/3/1996) [Electronic Poetry Center]
39. Night Work — Phebe Davidson [Town Creek Poetry^♥]
40. Sonnets from Homer’s Iliad: No Friendly Oaths — F. L. Light [Sixty-Six^♥]
41. Two poems: (1) 1976; and (2) The Change — David Lehman [coconut^♥]
42. Animals Are Not Your Friends — Rupert Loydell [Great Works] “They make / their mark and then move on” – it’s said to be easy.
43. We — Imogen Avsec [Magma Poetry^♥] “More nude than other animals / we aim straight for truth.”
44. Rime — J. R. Toriseva [Jacket^♥]
45. Jumpshots in the Dark — Daniel Henry [Valparaiso Poetry Review^♥]
46. Restraining Order — Priscila Uppal [Toronto Quarterly]
47. And among those re-read today from the stack I read and listed a month ago here: Hyperphagia — Leslie Adrienne Miller [Caper Literary Journal^♥]
48. I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) — Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan] And who would ever know?

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