IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT ! WE HAVE POEMS TO LISTEN TO ! FOUST ! JENSEN ! MILLER ! HASS !
January 30, 2011
In the tradition of the real live Back Room Live, formerly held at Mc Nally’s Irish Pub in Oakland Ca. the last Saturday of the month at 7pm, I’ve chosen four poems to read to you. Hope you like hearing them as much as I love reading them +V.
click to hear: BREACH AND ORISON I. TERROR OF BEGINNINGS by Robert Hass from Time and Materialsm
click to hear: BAD BOATS by Laura Jensen from Bad Boatsm
click to hear: VOW by Graham Foust from Leaving the Room to Itselfm
click to hear: CODA from A Palace of Pearls by Jane Miller
DON’T FORGET TO SEND US YOUR WRITING ON LOVE!!! We’ll be posting writing and voice files about LOVE all February long. Send us a page, paragraph, chapter, scene, essay, article or poem along w/ your photo JPEG, bio, and if you have one or can make one, an mp3 file of you reading the piece. We’re reading Now – February 14th 2011. So, send us some LOVE to backroomlive@gmail.com
TO THE NEW YEAR by W.S. MERWIN
January 13, 2011
To the New Year
With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
and did not know you at all
then the voice of a dove calls
from far away in itself
to the hush of the morning
so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
http://poetry.arizona.edu/promotion/2011/01/poetry-times-tragedy
BACK ROOM LIVE! 