September 25

Paul was kind enough to offer to MC.  Poems drawn from the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, "Beloved and Influential Poems 2011" + one by Thomas Lux Ode to the Unbroken World, Which Is Coming 

The Poem by George Oppen; (picked by C.D. Wright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_D._Wright); ;Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare; (chosen by Ellen Bryant Voigt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Bryant_Voigt  To Awaken an Old Lady  by W.C. Williams:  (chosen by Alan Shapiro: https://poets.org/poet/alan-shapiro) Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas: (chosen by Vijay Seshadri: https://poets.org/poet/vijay-seshadri The Waking by Theodore Roethke: chosen by Thomas Lux for its music, passion, simplicity and technical achievement of the villanelle. : https://poets.org/poet/thomas-lux Although the wind by Izumi Shikibu  (ca 1000) and The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats chosen by Jane Hirschfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Hirshfield