Reading at Jerome Rothenberg’s 80th Birthday TributeĪppearing on Cross Cultural Poetics, hosted by Leonard Schwartz Musical accompaniment on cello by Ha-Yang Kim Readings in Contemporary Poetry series with Lee Ann Brown Reading at Oh! Sandy: A Remembrance hosted by Phong Bui Hosted by Al Filreis and featuring Pierre Joris, Orchid Tierney, and Stacy Szymaszek I’m Coming Up: Anne Waldman, “To the Censorious Ones” (“Open Address to Senator Jesse Helms”) Reading and Conversation for the Kelly Writers House Fellows Program Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium, Vol.
(See Red Hand File #5).Reading with Anne Waldman, Ed Sanders, Peter Lamborn Wilson, and Michael Brownstein Just to say, my list, in this instance, is of poets writing in the English language, for no other reason than to make the list more manageable.īeyond this list, there are various poetry anthologies which are always an education and an immense pleasure to dive into, most notably those put together by the great Jerome Rothenberg – among them Barbaric, Vast and Wild, Shaking the Pumpkin, A Big Jewish Book, America a Prophesy and Technicians of the Sacred. They are poets whose company I consistently enjoy. I’m just sitting here at my desk looking at my bookshelf, in fact. This is by no means a definitive list and in no particular order. There are enough surprises within their writing to keep the mind light and alive. However, I have a few poets that, purely on a personal level, always delight and are a simple pleasure to read.
They can be bad news for the imaginative process. Sometimes the reading is something of a chore and there are many “great” poets I find boring, inscrutable, long-winded and painful to read. It jimmies open the imagination, making the mind more receptive to metaphor and abstraction and serves as a bridge from the reasoned mind to a stranger state of alertness, in case that precious idea decides to drop by. I try to read, at the very least, a half-hour of poetry a day, before I begin to do my own writing. During one of the ‘In Conversation’ events, you mentioned that you look to some poets for inspiration in your songwriting.
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