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Saturday, April 29, 2023

Poems performed on Wed. 4/26/23 : Poetry and the Creative Mind

 We need poetry—in order to reveal ourselves to ourselves and to remind us that we are in relationship, with nature and with each other.” Ada Limon

Kimiko Hahn

Sylvia” by Gerald Stern
Ode to the Whitman Line ‘When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d’” by Kimiko Hahn

Emily Igwike

my mother prepares ofe egusi” by Emily Igwike
It Bruises, Too” by Kwame Dawes

Daniel Dae Kim

Note to Self Work” by Beau Sia

Malala Yousafzai

the poem is a dream telling you its time” by Marwa Helal

Alan Cumming

Broadway” by Mark Doty 
Love is Not All” (Sonnet XXX) by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Protest” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 

Andrew Bird

A Book of Music” by Jack Spicer
Mirabeau Bridge” by Guillaume Apollinaire
Original song, “Orpheo Looks Back”

Richard Blanco

When Giving Is All We Have” by Alberto Ríos
Why I Needed To” by Richard Blanco

Ethan Hawke

As I Walked Out One Evening” by W. H. Auden

Shantell Martin

Flux” by Afaa Michael Weaver
from “Pink Waves” by Sawako Nakayasu

Molly Shannon 

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women” by Alice Duer Miller
Naming the Heartbeats” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Eric Kim

The Dream of Knife, Fork, and Spoon” by Kimiko Hahn
A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg

John Lithgow

Passers-by” by Carl Sandburg
sorrows” by Lucille Clifton

Liam Neeson

Scaffolding” by Seamus Heaney
Carbon Dating” by Billy Collins
Once in the 40’s” by William Stafford

Ada Limón

Trees at Night” by Helene Johnson
Salvage” by Ada Limón

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