Rain did not dampen our poetic spirits on Sunday, July 29, probably because we were sitting in Jan’s sunroom. How can you not feel sunny while sitting in such a room? Our poems for the afternoon included:
John Keats (1795-1817) – bio and biographical context
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) – Wales ‘greatest’ poet – bio
Ray Freed – bio
California #40 from his collection called Much Cry Little Wool published in 1990
I couldn’t find this in print on the web, but I did find a video of the poet reading this poem…a must see.
Rena Lee Kofman – bio
Jeffrey Harrison – bio
God’s Penis – published most recently in Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience, it appears also to have been published in Harrison’s own collection entitled Incomplete Knowledge in 2006. I was able to find the poem in print on-line although The Southern Review wants to charge you for it.
Narda Bush
Noodling – also from Manthology: Poems on the Male Experience, I couldn’t find any thing anywhere about this poet or this poem. In short, it’s a fun play on words involving a nice Italian story and pasta.
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) – winner of 3 Pulitzer Prizes for poetry
Robert Browning (1812-1889) – bio
The Poets' Notebook 