Readings at Milk&Roses: February 11th

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Readings at Milk&Roses – January 7th

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Readings at Milk&Roses – December 10th

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Readings at Milk&Roses

•November 4, 2011 • Leave a Comment

Thank 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 Comment

PeopleHerd 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”’

 
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