Okay, people, let’s get organized.
Those who have currently signed up to read are as follows: Everett, Meg, Debbi, Alyssa, Erin, Kristin, Christine, and Helen.
Matt, are you reading, or are you working on music and/or an art slideshow? Anyone else want to come on board?
Kristin’s suggestion, since we apparently gave the title “Why Poetry Matters,” was to read poems from our copo poets that address that issue or that concern art in a metapoetic way. I like this idea, and, as Kristin or someone said, if we announce that at the beginning, then our audience can listen for/interpret that commentary as we go.
A few suggestions off the top of my head:
Pineda, “My Sister, Who Died Young, Takes Up the Task”
Brooks, “What shall I give my children? who are poor”
selections from Ginsberg, e.g. end of Part I of “Howl”
Walcott, “Sea Grapes” and Omeros Chapter LXIV.I (239)
Clifton, “telling our stories,” “libation,” “why some people be mad at me sometimes,” “my dream about the poet”
Bishop, “The Monument,” “One Art”
Plath, “Two Views of a Cadaver Room,” “The Arrival of the Bee Box,” “Kindness”
What else??
