2011 02 11

69Almanac — William Shenstone d.1763; Joseph Chénier b.1764; Else Lasker-Schüler b.1869; Satyendranath Dutta b.1882; Roy Fuller b.1912; Kazys Bradūnas b.1917; Frances Frost d.1959; Sylvia Plath d.1963; Amelia Rosselli d.1996

Reading, each both silently and aloud —

1. February 11th 1990 — Wanda Coleman [Poetry Foundation^♠]
2. Edison in Love — Robin Ekiss [Poetry Foundation^♠] “Thomas Edison loved a doll”
3. What the Grad Students Said ♫ — Martha Silano [Rattle^♥] No grad school experience here, and I didn’t stop reading even after two times through. But then, I’ve no prize to be coveted, so that would explain it.
4. Speech — Kevin Young [E-Verse Radio] And I’ll do follow-up reading to this over the coming weekend.
5. She Thinks of Him on Her Birthday ♫ — Deborah Garrison [The Writer’s Almanac^♠] “not wrong to wish / for a hard rain, a hard wind”
6. Freshwater Bay — David Wojahn [Poetry Daily^♠]
7. Animal Dark — Sally Rosen Kindred [Verse Daily^♠]
8. Three poems: (1) Spermicidal; (2) Cannibals & Missionaries; and (3) Uneasy Dreams ♫ — Howie Good [qarrtsiluni^♥]
9. THE WAY FORWARD (When I Heard the Song of the Pearly Everlasting) — Nicole Mauro [No Tell Motel^♠]
10. Memories Have Tongue — Afua Cooper [Canadian Poetry Online]
11. The Tongue — Chris Martin [Poets.org^♠] “someone already died to say / the moon is on the couch”
12. Her Kind — Anne Sexton [Poetry Out Loud^♠]
13. Travel — Robert Louis Stevenson [Poem of the Day]
14. On an Infant Dying ♫ — Charles Lamb [Poetry Moment]
15. Decalogue — Ambrose Bierce [Representative Poetry Online]
16. The Applicant — Sylvia Plath (d.2/11/1963) [Poetry Archive] Never the practiced one at forms or interviews for permanent positions, I know the feeling well.
17. Fever 103° ♫ — Sylvia Plath [Poetry Foundation^♠] “Pure? What does it mean?”
18. Edge — Sylvia Plath [Poetry Foundation^♠] “The woman is perfected.”
19. Confessions — Robert Browning [Poetry In Voice]
20. Deconstructing Juliet — Matthew Ashbrook [Black Cat Poems]
21. And This Is What We Have — Terese Coe [Lilt]
22. Battle Rhyme for the Rhetorical Disenfranchisers ♫ — Adrian Matejka [From the Fishouse]
23. Frost at Midnight — Samuel Taylor Coleridge; with reading by Lisa Lewis ♫ [Poets on Poets]
24. Sonnets from the Portuguese: ◄ VI [“Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand”] ► — Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Wikisource] “Henceforward in thy shadow.”
25. In Memoriam A. H. H.: ◄ X [“I hear the noise about thy keel”] ► — Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Wikisource]
26. ◄ Sonnet XLII [“That thou hast her it is not all my grief”] ► — William Shakespeare [EServer Poetry Collection] “she loves but me alone.”
27. ◄ An Epitaph ► — Stephen Hawes [The Oxford Book of English Verse]
28. The Raven and Other Poems: ◄ TO F——s S. O——d. ► — Edgar Allan Poe [Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore] “Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart / From its present pathway part not! “
29. A Boy’s Will: ◄ Waiting—Afield at Dusk ► — Robert Frost [Wikisource] “I dream upon the opposing lights of the hour, / Preventing shadow until the moon prevail”
30. Trismegistus — Richard Wilbur [Poem of the Week (Sarah E. Smith)]
31. The Shout — Simon Armitage [Poetry 365]
32. Ode to a Young Lady (Somewhat Too Solicitious about Her Manner of Expression) — William Shenstone (d.2/11/1763) [Poet’s Corner]
33. A Year in Bedlam — Traci Brimhall [Waccamaw^♥]
34. Two poems: (1) The Elect; and (2) Action Poem — Rae Armantrout [Shampoo^♥]
35. The Identity Event (excerpt) — Erik Anderson [Fou^♥]
36. Apron Strings — Melissa DeGezelle [Literary Mama^♥]
37. Three poems: (1) Approbations 529; (2) Approbations 530; and (3) Approbations 533 — Felino A. Soriano [Sawbuck^♥]
38. Inside his house she builts her house of words — Helena Nelson [Magma Poetry^♥]
39. Carburundrum Morns — Jennifer Cooke [Great Works]
40. Fugue Moment — Peter Minter [Jacket^♥] One I’m passing over to my memorization queue.
41. Crazy Horse — Sharon Doubiago [Asheville Poetry Review^♥]
42. More reading and re-archiving from the Internet Archive: Four poems: (1) Yin, Yang, and Jung; (2) 8 1/2 minutes; (3) Ineffable Enough; and (4) Plain Mean: An Ars Poetica — John Gregory [Electric Acorn^♥]
43. My True Love Hath My Heart and I Have His ♫ — Philip Sidney [Slate]
44. Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae ♫ — Ernest Dowson [Slate]
45. Reading Marianne Moore on a train between Kingston and Cornwall — Robyn Sarah [The New Criterion^♥]
46. And among those re-read today from the stack I read and listed a month ago here: Lines Written Just Before Driving into the Ditch — Janice D. Soderling [Tilt-a-Whirl^♥]
47. When The Ship Comes In — Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan] “Then the tide will sound / And the wind will pound / And the morning will be breaking”