O Pen: Elaine's picks June 19, 2019// Carmin's picks June 26

Elaine Olsson kindly offered to curate the poems for 6/19.  She also was considering
"Insomnia" by Billy Collins... however,  the poems above came to 6 pages, so I sent it as
an extra attachment.  I copied the formatting of the photocopies of poems she made from
books in the library.


The River Merchant’s Wife: a Letter by Ezra Pound 
Directions by Billy Collins  

On the Screened Porch by Elizabeth Biller Chapman
Sure by Naomi Shihab Nye
A Black Kite by W.S. Merwin
Permanently  by Kenneth Koch
Forgetfulnessby Billy Collins 
Brainstorm by Howard Nemerov

Carmin Rosebrough kind offered to curate the poems for 6/26:
She had a thought of doing the Lovesong of Alfred J. Prufrock, along with a friends take-off of it...
which sound fascinating, but perhaps for another time...  Here are the titles of her choices.

4 Haiku

 THE GHOST by Richard Wehrman

WHAT DOES YOUR HEART SAY by Richard Wehrman

LA MIGRA  by Pat Mora

 GROWING APPLES  by Nancy Miller Gomez

GREAT ASO by Tatsuji Miyoshi

 from THE SOUND OF WATER'S FOOTSTEPS   by Sohrab Sepehri(Persian poet)

THE PRISON CELL by Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine)

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[1] Great Aso is the name of a volcanic crater in Japan