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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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