Thursday Poems Series
Fall 2009
Please join us again this semester for our Thursday Poems series, which takes place between 5-5:30 PM every Thursday afternoon in 139 Combs. Finish up every hard week of work with a half an hour of cool verse.
3 Sept: Eric Lorentzen reads W. H. Auden
10 Sept: Zach Whalen reads “ergon/logos” by Molleindustria
17 Sept: Guest Poet: Betty Adcock reads from her collection “Slantwise” (William Street House)
24 Sept: Jessica Locke and Maya Mathur read Jose Marti
1 Oct: Patricia Orozco and Connie Smith read Gloria Anzaldua
8 Oct: Mike McCarthy reads Hafiz
15 Oct: DIGITAL WHITMAN (org. Mara Scanlon)
22 Oct: Jim Gaines reads Baudelaire
29 Oct: Chelsea Newnam reads Marge Piercy
5 Nov: Tim Waltonen reads Elizabeth Bishop
12 Nov: Gary Richards’ English 375 students read comic poems
19 Nov: Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s English 302A students read their own original poems
POEMS of THURSDAYS PAST
SPRING 2009
22 January: Eric Lorentzen reads from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
29 January: Shama Ahmed reads “Borne Across”: Poets in Translation: (Bengali, Arabic, Spanish)
5 February: Tim Waltonen reads Richard Wright
12 February: Elizabeth Rabin reads “Murder Ballads”
19 February: Judith Parker’s LING 305 students read from Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination
26 February: Zach Whalen gives a New Media poetry reading
12 March: Connie Smith & Ana Chichester read Nancy Morejón
19 March: Mara Scanlon’s ENGL 457P students read Emily Dickinson & H.D.
26 March: Maya Mathur & Jessica Locke read 16th - & 17th- Century Women’s Poetry
2 April: Jim Gaines & “Paris Mutuel” read Jacques Prévert
9 April: Chris Foss reads poems about disability
16 April: Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s ENGL 302A students read their own original poems
Fall 2008
4 September: Eric Lorentzen reads Walt Whitman
11 September: Shama Ahmed reads Philip Levine
18 September: Guest Poet: Sheryl St. Germain reads from her collection “Let It Be a Dark Roux”
25 September: Connie Smith and Jessica Locke read Latina Poets
2 October: Jeremy Larochelle reads recent Amazonian poetry
9 October: Antonio Barrenechea reads Alonso de Ercilla’s “La Araucana” (The Araucaniad)
16 October: Gary Richards Brenda Marie Osbey
23 October: Phi Beta Kappa Series Guest Speaker: Anne Mellor
30 October: Special Event: Steve Watkins reads from his book Down Sand Mountain
6 November: Claudia Emerson reads
13 November: Colin Rafferty reads from his own original non-fiction
20 November: English 302A students read their own original poems (Rochelle/Earnhart)
Spring 2008
24 January: Antonio Barrenechea reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Evangeline”
31 January: Tim Waltonen reads Philip Levine
7 February: Taja Winston reads poetry of resistance about Black America
14 February: Claudia Emerson organizes a special Valentine’s Day session: our favorite love poems
21 February: Whitney Roberts reads Gwendolyn Brooks
28 February: Gardner Campbell reads S. T. Coleridge
13 March: Tyler Babbie reads Gerard Manley Hopkins
20 March: Connie Smith and Jessica Locke read Rosario Costellaños
27 March: Mara Scanlon reads Derek Walcott
3 April: Eric Lorentzen reads William Wordsworth’s “Michael”
10 April: William Williams reads William Cullen Bryant
17 April: Brady Earnhart’s 302A students read their own original poems
Fall 2007
6 September: Chris Foss reads "The Sphinx" and other deliciously decadent and/or shockingly scandalous poems by Oscar Wilde
13 September: Tyler Babbie reads W. H. Auden
20 September: Connie Smith reads Audre Lorde
27 September: Guest reader: Warren Rochelle reads from his new novel Harvest of Changlings (5-6 PM, with a reception and book signing to follow!)
4 October: Brady Earnhart reads Robert Creely
11 October: Claudia Emerson reads Steve Scafidi
18 October: Tim Waltonen reads Lisel Mueller
25 October: Elizabeth Staggs reads Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1 November: Eric Lorentzen reads Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”
8 November: Whitney Roberts reads Derek Mahon
15 November: Guest Poet: Fred Chappell
29 November: English 302A reads their own original poems (Warren Rochelle/Brady Earnhart)
Spring 2007
25 January: Gardner Campbell reads Robert Herrick
1 February: Antonio Barrenechea reads Joel Barlow
8 February: Judith Parker organizes Poems for Peace
15 February: Taja Winston reads Langston Hughes
22 February: Guest Speaker: Nokuthula Mazibuko
1 March: Gregg Stewart reads Robert Frost
15 March: Connie Smith and Ana Chichester read Alfonsina Storni
22 March: Guest Poet: Carmen Leñero
29 March: Bill Kemp reads Tennyson
5 April: Maya Mathur reads “Beastly Tales and Revolting Rhymes”
12 April: Eric Lorentzen and Chris Foss read The Smiths
19 April: Warren Rochelle’s and Brady Earnhart’s 302A students read their own original poems
FALL 2006
Each Thursday from 5:00-5:30 in Combs 139.
7 September: Marie McAllister reads Comic Poems about Love and Marriage from the Restoration
14 September: Eric Lorentzen reads the Brownings
21 September: Tyler Babbie reads Edna St. Vincent Millay
28 September: Gary Stanton reads “Cowboy Poetry”
5 October: Gregg Stewart reads John Crowe Ransom
12 October: Connie Smith reads Pattiann Rogers
19 October: Maya Mathur reads 16th & 17th Century “Carpe Diem” poems
26 October: Whitney Roberts reads Louise Gluck
2 November: Tim Waltonen reads Oppen & Ignatow
9 November: Chris Foss reads from the Greatest Poem of All-Time
16 November: Courtney McAllister reads Charles Wright
30 November: English 302A reads their own original poems (Warren Rochelle/Brady Earnhart)
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