2011 02 19

78Almanac — Dorothe Engelbretsdotter d.1716; Elizabeth Carter d.1806; Zygmunt Krasiński b.1812; Hovhannes Tumanyan b.1869; André Breton b.1896; Frederick Seidel b.1936; Stephen Dobyns b.1941; René Char d.1988

Reading, each both silently and aloud —

1. The People’s Republic of Sleepless Nights ♫ — Robert Archambeau [Rattle^♥] “The guard has waved you through.” Bribes work.
2. And the replacement piece from yesterday (although I still have my printout of the original Rattle posting for the day, from which I had been reading aloud): Autumn — Aram Saroyan [Rattle^♥] Still keeping the time.
3. Spain — Bruce Bawer [E-Verse Radio]
4. Inventory ♫ — Dorothy Parker [The Writer’s Almanac^♠] LIFO.
5. Sorrow, with Some Eye Contact — Lynn Melnick [Poetry Daily^♠] “Mostly you just disappear.”
6. The White Doves of Mazar — Timothy McBride [Verse Daily^♠]
7. Meditation on the Road: Chinese Wartime Sonnets from the Collection of 27 Sonnets (1941): (1) No. 15; and (2) No. 2 ♫ — Feng Zhi (translated by Huiwen Zhang) [qarrtsiluni^♥] The current issue of qarrtsiluni continues to offer exquisite selections!
8. The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone — John Keats [Poets.org^♠]
9. Rondeau — Leigh Hunt [Poetry Out Loud^♠]
10. A Doggerel for Penny — Ann Putnam [Poem of the Day]
11. And: Playboy — Richard Wilbur [Poem of the Day]
12. A Valentine — Lewis Carroll [Everyday Poems] Fitting close to a Valentine week of romantic verse: “I trust to find your heart the seat / Of wasting sorrow.”
13. The Day of Wrath / Dies Iræ — Ambrose Bierce [Representative Poetry Online] “Cats from every bag escaping!” Wrath indeed!
14. White Vase — Felix Dennis [Poetry Archive] For my villanelle set.
15. How One Winter Came in the Lake Region — Wilfred Campbell [Poetry In Voice] “And all the world, with ominous silence, stood / In weird expectancy”
16. Canadian Moose — Desi Di Nardo [Canadian Poetry Online] “Laughing at the silliness of it all.”
17. The Sempstress — Henri Barbusse (translated by Jethro Bithell) [Black Cat Poems] “Her eyes smile on her hand, / She believes in her romance.”
18. I Came With My Cup ♫ — Nigel Holt [Lilt]
19. Mary’s Blood ♫ — Anne Marie Macari [From the Fishouse]
20. London — William Blake; with reading by Ken Edwards ♫ [Poets on Poets]
21. Modern Love: ◄ VIII [“Yet it was plain she struggled, and that salt”] ► — George Meredith [Wikisource] “Poor twisting worm, so queenly beautiful!”
22. Sonnets from the Portuguese: ◄ XIV [“If thou must love me, let it be for nought”] ► — Elizabeth Barrett Browning [Wikisource] ” But love me for love’s sake, that evermore / Thou may’st love on, through love’s eternity.”
23. In Memoriam A. H. H.: ◄ XVIII [“‘Tis well; ’tis something; we may stand”] ► — Alfred, Lord Tennyson [Wikisource] “The words that are not heard again.”
24. ◄ Sonnet L [“How heavy do I journey on the way”] ► — William Shakespeare [EServer Poetry Collection] “His rider loved not speed being made from thee”
25. The Joy of the Drop: ◄ Ghazal 5 [“The joy of the drop is to die in the river”] ► — Mirza Ghalib — “her color and shape are silent but listen”
26. ◄ The Means to attain Happy Life ► — Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey [The Oxford Book of English Verse] “The fruitful ground, the quiet mind”
27. ◄ In Sorrow ► — Thomas Hastings [Yale Book of American Verse] “Lead us in thy perfect way.”
28. The Raven and Other Poems: ◄ Tamerlane ► — Edgar Allan Poe [Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore] Different version vs that read back on Jan 19.
29. A Boy’s Will: ◄ The Trial by Existence ► — Robert Frost [Wikisource] “And so the choice must be again, / But the last choice is still the same”
30. Kubla Khan — Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Poem of the Week (Sarah E. Smith)] To be repolished from ancient memorization.
31. Crossing Legs — Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino [Poetry 365] “in habit being like and being unlike.”
32. Sonnet: Sonnet ♫ — Robert Hass [Poetry Foundation^♠]
33. The Pursuit of Happiness Often Ill-Directed — Elizabeth Carter (d.2/19/1806) [Old Poetry] “Ah! dear delusion, gay conceit / Of visionary minds!”
34. Lost — Stephen Dobyns (b.2/19/1941) [Poets.org^♠] “Where had wrong turns been made?”
35. Ode to Spring — Frederick Seidel (b.2/19/1936) [Poets.org^♠] As good a poem as any to use for launching a set devoted to that tardy season.
36. Words for Music — T. S. Eliot [Virginia Quarterly Review^♥] “Will heat move / Only through the mockingbird / Heard once?”
37. Carnal Beauty — Kate Bernadette Benedict [The Flea^♥] “They fuse; it’s a holy, ordering thing.”
38. Sally Malley: Trunk — Matt Hetherington [Cordite Poetry Review^♥]
39. On the Radio, A Prisoner Speaks . . . — Majeed Amjad (translated by Mehr Afshan Farooqi) [Eleven Eleven Journal^♥] “we don’t even look up from our graves.”
40. Two poems: (1) Nora Prentiss; (2) Vickie Falls — James Cihlar [Prime Number Magazine^♥]
41. Steady — Julia Casterton [Ambit^♥]
42. Crossroads I: The Divine — Mark Smith [Great Works]
43. Three poems: (1) Francis Bacon; (2) Goodbye; and (3) Seventh Avenue — Vincent Katz [Jacket^♥]
44. After Twenty Years — Jim Wayne Miller [Asheville Poetry Review^♥]
45. More reading and re-archiving from the Internet Archive: Two poems: (1) Game; and (2) Shaken and Stirred — Chris Major [Electric Acorn^♥]
46. Hat-Trick Afterlife — Cathy Ford [Toronto Quarterly^♠]
47. Cologne — Alfred Brendel [Guardian] Don’t forget the DC Candy Wrapper Rustlers.
48. Leaf color — William Logan [The New Criterion^♥] “Not that anything lay hidden there.”
49. And among those re-read today from the stack I read and listed a month ago here: Valentine with saints and sharps — Joni Wallace [Verse Daily^♠]
50. Forgetful Heart — Bob Dylan [Bob Dylan] “The door has closed forevermore / If indeed there ever was a door”