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Readings at Milk&Roses
•November 4, 2011 • Leave a CommentThank you to last night’s talent: Gabe Kruis, Andrew Gorin, Alina Gregorian, & David Paarlberg! Our next event will be December 10th. Details coming soooon.
Poetry in Performance – Robert Creeley
•November 3, 2011 • 1 Comment
I’ve been listening to the PennSound Archive and analyzing poets’ reading styles. Here’s a response to Creeley reading his poems “The Whip” & “For Love” in 1963 at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Robert Creeley famously equivocates. In “The Whip,” he vacillates between a woman in his bed and a woman on the roof, a current lover and a potential or former. Creeley injects his printed poems with vacillation through heavy enjambment: “addressed myself to in / a fit she / returned. That / encompasses it. But now I was / lonely.” He indicates the moment he requires to contemplate his word choice with the line break. Read aloud, these momentary deliberations fragment a straightforward narrative, as if Creeley is a close friend stammering through a confession of his predicament for the first time. His reading of “For Love,” conveys the same feeling, as he tries to dictate a love poem on the spot, but constantly scratches his head and eyes the floor and never knows what to say. “If the moon did not… / no, if you did not / I wouldn’t either, but / what would I not / do.” Creeley speaks candidly, sometimes his voice appears close to tears when he cannot decide, as if he didn’t have a finished poem on a podium to read.
Perfect Sentence Series – “Anyuta”
•November 3, 2011 • 1 Comment
Anton Chekhov, “Anyuta,” February 1886 Continue reading ‘Perfect Sentence Series – “Anyuta”’
Perfect Sentence Series: “Panikhida”
•October 30, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Anton Chekhov, “Panikhida,” February 1886 Continue reading ‘Perfect Sentence Series: “Panikhida”’
Readings at Milk&Roses
•October 26, 2011 • 1 CommentPeopleHerd launches its reading series. Hear the herd. November 3rd.
Perfect Sentence Series: “The Huntsman”
•October 25, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Anton Chekhov, “The Huntsman,” July 1885 Continue reading ‘Perfect Sentence Series: “The Huntsman”’
Perfect Sentence Series: “Small Fry”
•October 24, 2011 • Leave a Comment
Anton Chekhov, “Small Fry,” March 1885 Continue reading ‘Perfect Sentence Series: “Small Fry”’
