This page is a log of what we have read and discussed at our meetings and who contributed the poem to the group. Click on the meeting date for more details.
January 18, 2009 – We Read Poets of Distinction
Maxine Kuman – Jack (Frances)
Kay Ryan – Duck (Frances)
Kay Ryan – Turtle (Jan)
Robert Frost – The Gift Outright (Jan)
Edgar Allan Poe – Annabel Lee (Jan)
Maya Angelou – Still I Rise (Gloria)
Maya Angelou – Woman Work (Gloria)
Wizlawa Symborska – Under One Small Star (Dan M)
Wizlawa Symborska – Utopia (Dan M)
Kay Ryan – The Edges of Time (Karen)
Kay Ryan – Patience (Ellen)
Kay Ryan – A Cat/A Future (Ellen)
Kay Ryan – Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard (Ellen)
Maya Angelou – On the Pulse of Morning (Denise)
Maya Angelou – The Health-Food Diner (Denise)
Margaret Atwood – Is/Not (Gloria)
Margaret Atwood – More and More (Gloria)
Gabriela Mistral – Anniversary (Dan M)
Gabriela Mistral – The Stranger (Dan M)
Gabriela Mistral – I Am Not Alone (Dan M)
November 2, 2008 – We Examine the Politics of Poetry
Jingle to recall the order of Presidents (Jan)
Nixon jingle – Hug your elephant, kiss my ass… (Jan)
Robert Hayden – El-Hadj Malik El-Shabazz (Gloria)
Robert Hayden – from Words in Mourning Time – Part I, For King, For Robert Kennedy (Gloria)
Billy Collins – The Future (Diana)
Carl Adamshick – Our flag (Frances)
Madeleine Begun Kane – limericks (Dan M)
Langston Hughes – Let America Be America Again (Karen)
Rudyard Kipling – My Boy Jack (Denise)
Rudyard Kipling – If– (Denise)
Eugene McCarthy – Whose foot is on the treadle (Dan M)
October 4, 2008 – We Study the Landscape – theme: landscapes
Carl Sandburg – Mist Marches Across the Valley and Crossing Ohio When Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula (Frances)
Robert Frost – The Mountain (Elizabeth)
Robert Frost – The Road Not Taken (Ellen)
William Carlos Williams – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Ellen)
Edna St. Vincent Millay – God’s World (Ellen)
William Wordsworth – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Ellen)
Robert Louis Stevenson – The Land of Counterpane (Jan)
Dorothy Parker – Landscape (Jan)
Hayden Carruth – I Know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You and Song of the Two Crows (Denise)
Yehuda Amichai – What Did I Learn in the Wars? and End of the Summer in the Judean Mountains (Dan)
Wallace Stevens – Six Significant Landscapes (Dan)
William Wordsworth – Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey (Diana)
Garrett Kaoru Hongo – Yellow Light (Diana)
September 7, 2008 – We Get Wet (theme: water)
Bobbi Katz – Things to Do If You Are the Rain (Jan)
Bruce Balan – Wet Dog and The Dog (Jan)
Robert Frost – Once by the Pacific and Going for Water (Gloria)
Kay Ryan – The Niagara River and Tune (Frances)
Beatrice V – Landscapes (Dan)
Nikolay Gumilyov – The Giraffe (Dan)
Pablo Neruda – Rain (Rapa Nui) (Dan)
John Masefield – Sea-Fever (Denise)
Robert Hayden – Monet’s Waterlilies (Karen)
David Ferry – Lake Water (Karen)
Lauryn Hill – Just Like Water (Karen)
July 9, 2008 – We Contemplate the Weather (theme: weather)
Dylan Thomas – Poem in October (Gloria)
Helen Hunt Jackson – October’s Bright Blue Weather (Jan)
ee cummings – what if much of a which of a wind (Frances)
Robert Frost – A Line-storm Song (Dan)
William Shakespeare – Fear no more the heat o’ the sun and Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind (Denise)
Debora Greger – The Poetry of Bad Weather (Dan)
William Shakespeare – Sonnet XVIII Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Jan)
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke – An Ode to Pluviculture or The Rhyme of the Rain Machine (Dan)
June 8, 2008 – We Laugh in June (theme: humor)
Billy Collins – The Revenant and I Chop Some Parsley While Listening to Art Blakey’s Version of “Three Blind Mice” (Karen)
Roger McGough – Survivor (Frances)
Ogden Nash – A Word to Husbands (Frances)
Emily Dickinson – I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (Frances)
John Hollander – Being Stung by a Bee on the Lexington Avenue Local (Frances)
Edward Lear – The Owl and the Pussycat and The Jumblies (Denise)
dog haiku (Jan)
Ogden Nash – The Cow; The Ostrich; The Turtle; The Parent; The Fly; The Termite; Song of the Open Road; The Panther; The Eel; and The Hippopotamus (Ellen)
Shel Silverstein – Anteater and Messy Room (Ellen)
Dorothy Parker – Resume (Ellen)
May 4, 2008 – We Bloom (theme: flowers)
Nazim Hikmet – Things I Didn’t Know I Loved (Frances)
Edna St. Vincent Millay – The Blue-Flag in the Bog (Gloria)
Khalil Gibran – Song of the Flower (Jan)
King James Bible – Song of Solomon, Chapter 2 (Jan)
Jane Kenyon – February: Thinking of Flowers (Diana)
Allen Ginsberg – Sunflower Sutra (Dan)
William Wordsworth – The Daffodils (aka I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud) (Elizabeth)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Reaper and the Flowers (Elizabeth)
William Carlos Williams – Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (Denise)
April 13, 2008 – We fly through the air (theme: traveling through air)
David Pedlow – Viewed from Another Angle (Diana)
Antoine de Saint Exupery – Night Flight (Gloria)
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.- High Flight (Jan)
Anne Sexton – To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph (Dan)
Tony Curtis – Icarus (Jan)
W. H. Auden – Musee des Beaux Arts (Jan)
Rita Dove – Vacation (Karen)
Yusef Komunyakaa – Facing It (Karen)
Brenda Shaughnessy – Drift (Frances)
William Stafford – Knowing Where You Are (Frances)
Maxine Kumin – Flying (Denise)
Jack Prelutsky – I Am Riding on a Cloud (Denise)
Elizabeth Bishop – Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore (Diana)
William Carlos Williams – Landscape With the Fall of Icarus (Denise)
March 16, 2008 – We skim the water (theme: water)
Geraldine Clinton Little- Creek Rites (Denise)
Robert Pinsky– Jersey Rain (Denise)
Richard Hughes- The Singing Furies (Gloria)
Mary Oliver- At Blackwater Pond (Dan G)
Robert Frost- Spring Pools (Diana)
Natasha Tretheway- Theories of Time and Space (Frances)
William Stafford- Listening to the Tide, Ask Me, Being a Person (Frances)
Paul Verlaine- There is weeping in my heart (Karen)
Marilyn Taylor- The Blue Water Buffalo (Karen)
Charles Simic- Watermelons (Karen)
Thomas Hardy- Under the Waterfall (Dan M)
Howard Nemerov- The Goose Fish (Dan M)
February 24, 2008 – We feast on poetry (theme: food)
Ben Jonson – Inviting a Friend to Supper (Denise)
William Carlos Williams – This Is Just to Say and To a Poor Old Woman (Denise)
Edna St. Vincent Millay – Feast (Gloria)
D.H. Lawrence – Figs (Gloria)
Laura Riding – Another Apple (Frances)
Donald Hall – Summer Kitchen (Frances)
Wang Ping – Crab and Catfish (Sarah)
Robert Southey – To a Goose (Jan)
Ogden Nash – The Clean Plater (Jan)
Pablo Neruda – Ode to Tomatoes and Ode to Maize (Dan) and Ode to an Onion (Ellen)
Jack Prelutsky – Deep in Our Refrigerator (Ellen)
Kim Addonizio – Eating Together (Ellen)
Shel Silverstein – Point of View (Ellen)
Frank Jacobs – If Walt Whitman Had Written Humpty Dumpty (Ellen)
Carol Muske-Dukes – The Invention of Cuisine (Ellen)
January 20, 2008 – We dress and undress willingly for Jan (theme: clothes)
Honor Moore – New Shoes and Red Shoes (Denise)
Charles Simic – My Shoes (Ellen)
Anonymous – Clothes (Ellen)
Marge Piercy – My Mother’s Body (Ellen)
Donall Dempsey – Divesting Oneself of One’s Clothing (Ellen)
Pablo Neruda – Ode to Clothing (Elizabeth)
Lightbourne – Emotional Nudity (Karen)
Anne Sexton – Woman with Girdle (Karen) and The Red Shoes (Frances)
Robert Herrick – Upon Julia’s Clothes (Karen)
Judith Viorst – Sad Underwear (Jan)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – The Sicilian’s Tale; King Robert of Sicily (Jan)
William Shakespeare – Hamlet, Act I. Scene III
Shel Silverstein – Tryin’ on Clothes (Frances)
Robert Pinsky – Shirt (Diana)
Anne Waldman – Makeup on Empty Space
December 9, 2007 – Frances makes us work (they never made it into the hot tub!!) – (theme: work)
Philip Levine – The Two (Frances)
Wang Ping – On a Playground in Park Slope (Sarah)
Edwin Markham – The Man with the Hoe (Jan)
Johan Esser and Wolfgang Langhoff – Peat Bog Soldiers (Jan)
Brandon Adamson – Workout Plan (Karen)
October 21, 2007 – Karen’s tea party
Wislawa Szymborska – The Railroad Station (Frances)
Anne Sexton – Just Once (Frances)
Walt Whitman – The Last Invocation (Diana)
Allen Ginsberg – A Supermarket in California (Dan and Jan)
Ogden Nash – Song of the Open Road (Ellen)
Allen Ginsberg – Morning (Gloria)
Patricia MacLachlan and Emily Maclachlan Charest – Once I Ate a Pie (Jan)
Wang Ping – Syntax (Diana)
Edwin Morgan – A View of Things, Strawberries, Siesta of a Hungarian Snake, Loch Ness Monster’s Song (Denise)
Paul Muldoon – A Hummingbird (Karen)
Tupak Shakur – Untitled Rap (Please wake me when I’m free) (Karen)
Jane Hirshfield – The Stone of Heaven (Diana)
September 10, 2007 – Denise’s kitchen
Elizabeth Bishop – Sestina and The Armadillo (Frances)
BJ Ward -From his book Gravedigger’s Birthday, Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, and Sex with Emily Dickinson (Karen)
Emily Dickinson – Wild Nights (Karen)
Steven Ford Brown – Angel of Loneliness and The Miscalculations of Love (Dan)
Jane Kenyon – Let Evening Come and Happiness (Diana)
Stanley Kunits – The Layers from his book The Wild Braid (Ronnie)
Cor Van Den Heuval – selected haiku from Baseball Haiku (Denise)
Anne Marie Macari – Glory (Dan)
July 29, 2007 – Jan’s sunroom
John Keats – Sonnet to Sleep and Why Did I Laugh Tonight? (Frances)
Dylan Thomas – I Have Longed to Move Away and The Hand that Signed the Paper and Was There A Time (Gloria)
Ray Freed – poem #40 in Much Cry Little Wool (Diana)
Rena Lee Kofman – To Be Like Moss and My Skin (Dan)
Jeffrey Harrison – God’s Penis (Denise)
Narda Bush – Noodling (Denise)
Edwin Arlington Robinson – Minver Cheevy (Jan)
Robert Browning – My Last Duchess (Jan)
June 24, 2007 – Dan and Gloria’s
AJM Smith – The Sorcerer (Gloria)
Roy Campbell – Zebras (Gloria)
Paul Laurence Dunbar – Sympathy (Denise)
Maya Angelou – Why the Caged Bird Sings and A Brave and Startling Truth (Denise)
Wallace Stevens – Somnambulisma and Angels Surrounded by Paysans (Diana)
Celia Thaxter – The Sandpiper (Jan)
Steven Crane – Do Not Weep, Maiden, for War is Kind (Jan)
Pablo Neruda – Ode to a Lemon and Ode to a Watch in the Night (Dan)
Archibald MacLeish – Summer of the Year and Winter Is Another Country (Frances)
Robert Graves- Counting the Beats (Frances)
William Ernest Henley – Madam, Life’s a Piece in Bloom” (Dan)
April 15, 2007 – Frances’ house
Pablo Neruda – Ode to My Socks
Tom Wayman – Did I Miss Anything?
William Wordsworth – I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Gordon J.L. Ramel – Daffodils No More
David Martin – I Wandered with a Wrought-up Mind
Joy Burki-Watson- I Pondered ‘Neath My Faceless Shroud
Cumbria Tourism – Wordsworth Rap
Adrianne Rich – Storm Warnings and Turning
William Henry Davies – Leisure
Thomas Hardy – The Darkling Thrush
Saliba Sarsar – When Peace Becoms the Holy Land
Robert Penn Warren – Caribou, If Snakes Were Blue, and Bearded Oaks
March 4, 2007 – We begin at Frances’ house
e e cummings – my father moved through dooms of love
Robert Frost – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Joyce Kilmer – Trees
Christopher Marlowe – The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Sir Walter Ralegh – The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Dalia Ravikovich – In the years to come, in the days to come
Dalia Ravikovich – Pride
Laura Riding – The World and I
Theodore Roethke – I Knew a Woman
Wallace Stevens – The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm
Denise, This site becomes more beautiful with each addition.
Thank you for your painstaking efforts to create such a glorious record of our meetings.
You are a wonder!
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