Poetry Performances

September

1 "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

2 "The Good Life" by Tracy K. Smith

3 "Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation" by Natalie Diaz

4 "Question" by May Swenson

5 "Thanks" by Yusef Komunyakaa

6 "How Bright It Is" by Brian Turner

7 "Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?" by Ron Koertge

8 "Numbers" by Mary Cornish

9 "The Cord" by Leanne O’Sullivan

10 "At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border" by William Stafford

11 "Can We Touch Your Hair?"" by Skye Jackson

12 "The Bat" by Theodore Roethke

13 "Did I Miss Anything" by Tom Wayman

14 "Neglect"  by R. T. Smith

15 "The Poet" by Tom Wayman

16 "Radio" by Laurel Blossom

17 "Bad Day" by Kay Ryan

18 "The Farewell" by Edward Field

19 "The Partial Explanation" by Charles Simic

20 "Wife" by Ada Limón

21 "Wheels" by Jim Daniels

22 "Remora, Remora"  by Thomas Lux

23 "Tour " by Carol Snow

October

24  "After Us" by Connie Wanek

25  "Domestic Work, 1937" by Natasha Trethewey

26 "Before She Died" by Karen Chase

27 "Poetry" by Don Paterson

28 "American Cheese" by Jim Daniels

29 "Advice from the Experts" by Bill Knott

30 "One Morning" by Eamon Grennan

31 "Walking Home" by Marie Howe

32 "Rabbits and Fire" by Alberto Ríos 

33 "The Meadow" by Kate Knapp Johnson

34 "The Summer I Was Sixteen" by Geraldine Connolly

35 "Hand Shadows" by Mary Cornish

36 "El Florida Room" by Richard Blanco

37 "She Didn't Mean to Do It" by Daisy Fried

38 "Cartoon Physics, part 1" by Nick Flynn

39 "Snow" by David Berman

40 "Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter"  by Robert Bly

41 "Halloween" by Mac Hammond

42 "The Poetry of Bad Weather" by Debora Greger

43 "The Green One Over There" by Katia Kapovich

44 "A Man I Knew" by Margaret Levine

45 "Nights " by Kevin Hart

46 "Grammar"  by Tony Hoagland

November

47 "Fault" by Ron Koertge

48 "Thanks For Remembering Us" by Dana Gioia

49 "Because You Left Me a Handful of Daffodils" by Max Garland

50 "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon

51 "A Little Girl Tugs at the Tablecloth" by Wisława Szymborska

52 "Love Poem With Toast" by Miller Williams

53 "The Blue Bowl" by Jane Kenyon

54 "Song" by Eamon Grennan

55 "Biscuit" by Jane Kenyon

56 "Red Wing" by Joseph Millar

57  "White-Eyes" by Mary Oliver

58 "To Help the Monkey Cross the River" by Thomas Lux

59 "Lesson" by Forrest Hamer

60 "Football" by Louis Jenkins

61 "Sister Cat" by Frances Mayes

62 "The Bagel" by David Ignatow

63  "Making a Fist" by Naomi Shihab Nye

64 "For My Daughter" by David Ignatow

65 "I've Been Known" by Denise Duhamel

66 "The Moon" by Robert Bly

67 "Eddie Priest’s Barbershop & Notary" by Kevin Young

68 "Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted"  by Shoshauna Shy

December

69 "The Space Heater" by Sharon Olds

70 "Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? " by Robert Hershon

71 "Smoking" by Elton Glaser

72 "Gratitude to Old Teachers" by Robert Bly

73 "Love Song" by Carol Muske-Dukes

74 "The Revolt of the Turtles" by Stephen Dunn

75 "To a Daughter Leaving Home" by Linda Pastan

76 "June 11" by David Lehman

77 "A Birthday Candle" by Donald Justice

78  "Doing Without" by David Ray

79 "Birthday" by Stanley Plumly

80 "Reckless Poem" by Mary Oliver

81 "After Years" by Ted Kooser

82 "Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper" by Martín Espada

83 "Turtle" by Kay Ryan

84 "Knowledge" by Philip Memmer

85 "Fight" by Laurel Blossom

86 "Sure" by Arlene Tribbia

87 "The Distances" by Henry W. Rago

88  "How To Tell Your Mother There Will Be No Grandkids In Her Future" by Ira Sukrungruang

89 "On the Psychological Effect of Living with Houseplants" by Stephanie Bishop

90 "A New Poet" by Linda Pastan

February 

91 "Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka" by Oliver Rice

92 "Birth Day" by Elise Paschen

93 "Do You Love Me?" by Robert Wrigley

94 "Slumnight" by Colette Inez

95 "The Halls" by Mark Halliday

96 "Second Estrangement" by Aracelis Girmay

97 "The Hymn of a Fat Woman" by Joyce Huff

98 "My Father's Hats" by Mark Irwin

99 "Exotic Treats" by Laura McKee

100 "Loud Music" by Stephen Dobyns

101 "Some Clouds" by Steve Kowit

102 "When Death Comes" by Mary Oliver

103 "Decades" by Gerald Stern

104 "To Stammering" by Kenneth Koch

105 "Today" by Frank O'Hara

106 "The Grammar Lesson" by Steve Kowit

107 "Blind" by Charles Webb

108 "In the Well" by Andrew Hudgins

109 "Fast Break" by Edward Hirsch

110 "On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window" by Eamon Grennan

111 "The Kitchen Shears Speak" by Christianne Balk

112 "Slow Children at Play" by Cecilia Woloch

113 "Lift Your Right Arm" by Peter Cherches

114 "Machines" by Michael Donaghy

March

115 "The Death of Santa Claus" by Charles Harper Webb

116 "Cat Scat" by Eamon Grennan

117 "Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space" by Ron Padgett

118 "Notice" by Steve Kowit

119 "The Courtesy of the Blind" by Wisława Szymborska

120 "The Swan at Edgewater Park" by Ruth L. Schwartz

121 "The Hand" by Mary Ruefle

122" Soccer Moms" by Paul Muldoon

123 "Coffee in the Afternoon" by Alberto Ríos

124 "Morning" by Mary Oliver

125 "Animals" by Miller Williams

126 "God Says Yes To Me" by Kaylin Haught

127 "Hate Poem" by Julie Sheehan

128 "An Apology" by F.J. Bergmann

129 "Bedecked" by Victoria Redel

131 "I Ask My Mother To Sing" by Li-Young Lee

132 "Leaving the Island" by Linda Pastan

133 "The Summer Day" by Mary Oliver

134 "Ode to Dirt" by Sharon Olds

135 "Video Blues" by Mary Jo Salter

April

136 "We Lived Happily During the War" by Ilya Kaminsky

137 "Morning Swim" by Maxine Kumin

138 "This Moment" by Eavan Boland

139 "How Many Times" by Marie Howe

140 "The Dead" by Susan Mitchell

141 "The End and the Beginning" by Wislawa Szymborska

142 "Tinnitus" by Robert Wrigley

143 "The secretary chant" by Marge Piercy

144 "Family Photo Around Xmas Tree" by Thomas Lux

145 "Proof of Life" by Tony Hoagland

146 "Blue Willow" by Jody Gladding

147 "Tuesday 9:00 AM" by Denver Butson

148 "Happiness" by Jane Kenyon

149 "Dress Rehearsal" by Brandon Kreitler

150 "96 Vandam" Gerald Stern

151 "My Moral Life" Mark Halliday

152 "It Took All My Energy" by Tony Wallace

153 "Once upon a Time There Was a Man" by Mac Hammond

154 "Aunties" by Kevin Young

155 "A Walk in Kensington Gardens" by Dorothy Parker

156 "Dandelion" by Julie Lechevsky

157 "Ox Cart Man" by Donald Hall

May

158 "Forgotten Planet" by Doug Dorph

159 "Loyal" by William Matthews

160 "Something" by James Valvis

161 "Gone" by Eamon Grennan

162 "Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice" by William Matthews

163 "Mentor" by Timothy Murphy

164 "Unconditional Day" by Julie Lechevsky

165 "The Rider" by Naomi Shihab Nye

166 "Kyrie" by Tomas Transtromer

167 "The Last Wolf" by Mary TallMountain

168 "Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain" by Richard Brautigan

169 "Shakespearean Sonnet" by R.S. Gwynn

170 "Summer in a Small Town" by Linda Gregg

171 "Entrance" by Dana Gioia

172 "How to Listen" by Major Jackson

173 "Immortality" by Lisel Mueller

174 "Our Other Sister" by Jeffrey Harrison

175 "Gretel" by Andrea Hollander

176 "How to Change a Frog Into a Prince" by Anna Denise

177 "Eagle Plain" by Robert Francis

178 "End of April" by Phillis Levin

179 "Bike Ride with Older Boys" by Laura Kasischke

180 "Break" by Dorianne Laux