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Previous Poetry Circle
Poems
July 11, 2006
"Valley of Morning" , "In the Kitchen of the
Old House" , "The Poem"
by Donald Hall, our new U.S. Poet
Laureate!
"Hummer" by Brendan Galvin
"Quilts" by Nikki Giovanni
"Publication Date" by Franz Wright
"Family Album" by Diane Thiel
June 6, 2006
Charles River
Villanelle by Jane Markert Moody
Birches
by Robert Frost
Laus Deo by John Greenleaf Whittier
Passing Through and The Long Boat by Stanley Kunitz
A Blessing from My Sixteen Years’ Son by Mary Karr
Learning the Bicycle by
Wyatt Prunty
May 2, 2006
"Corsons Inlet" by A.R. Ammons
"A Psalm of Life" by Longfellow
"Waiting for
the Barbarians" by C.P. Cavafy
"7" and "Dog" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The
Singers I Prefer" by Christian Barter
"Trees" by W.S.
Merwin
April 4, 2006
"Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Taylor
"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
"Mr. Flood's Party" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
"Serving Time" and "The Altar" by Charles Simic
"Things Shouldn't Be So Hard", "Chop" and "The Light of Interiors" by Kay Ryan
"a note upon modern poesy" by Charles Bukowski
March 7, 2006
“Prayer
In My Boot” by Naomi Shihab Nye
“My Mother’s
National Geographics”
by Julianna Baggott
“What I Want” by George Bilgere
“To Play Pianissimo” by Lola Haskins
"The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“By the Merrimack” by Helena Minton
“Wolf” by Faye George
“Mrs. Darwin” by Carol Ann Duffy
February 7, 2006
"The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Louis Slotin Assembles the Plutonium Implosion Core for the
Trinity Test, July 1945" and "Kitty Oppenheimer Tends Louis Slokin after an
Accident in the Lab" by John Canaday
"The Purist" and "November" by Phyllis McGinley
"The Doctor" by Howard Levy
"Passengers" by Billy Collins
"Winter Field" by Joanna Klink
"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry
January 10, 2006
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe
"Dim" by Jim Daniels
Exploration of Arab poetry:
"The Rooster" by Abu'l Qasim As'ad ibn Billita (c. 1050)
"Twice Times Then Is Now" by Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi (994-1064)
"Preparing for Occupation" by Elmaz Abi-Nader
"ghaflah--the sin of forgetfulness" by Dima Hilal
December 2005--No Meeting
November 22, 2005
"The Prize", "Memory" and "Shiftless" by Raymond Carver
"I could never let go", "Abortion Child" and "Goodbye" by Carole Davis
"Pawprints on the First Ice Storm" and "In the Dust, In the Smoke"
by Rabbi Martin Levy
"Preparing for Occupation" by Elmaz Abi-Nader
October 18, 2005
"Rethinking Regret" by Elaine Sexton
"Ode to Joy" by Schiller
"Some Questions You Might Ask" by Mary Oliver
"Flight" by Franz Wright
September 6, 2005
"Highway Apple Trees" by Rhina Espaillat
"If I Could Only Live at a Pitch That Is Near Madness" by
Richard Eberhart
"Geometry" and "The Bistro Styx" by Rita Dove
"Danse Russe" by William Carlos Williams
"Justice Denied in Massachusetts" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
August 2, 2005
"My Grandmother's Cloth" and "One Way" by Barbara Seigel
Carlson
"Design" by Robert Frost
"The Cherokee Grandfather" by John Whittle
"Variation on the Word Sleep" by Margaret Atwood
"The Secret Sits" by Robert Frost
"Dalliance of the Eagles" by Walt Whitman
"No, I'll Not Take the Half" by Yevtushenko
June 7, 2005
"Leaving the Tate" by Fleur Adcock
"Connection" by John Whittle
"The Man From Athabaska" by Robert Service
"Fix" by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
"Li Po's Reading" by Peter Bethanis
May 9, 2005
"Winter Song" by Aaron Kramer
"Sonnet 33" by William Shakespeare
"Sonnet" by Billy Collins
"Die Gazelle" & "Der Panther" w/translations by
Rainer Maria Rilke
"The Lanyard" by Billy Collins
"The Sight of You After a Trying Day" by Diane Giarrusso
"Inviting the Bell", "Please Call Me By My True Names" &
"Feeling Angry" by Thich Nhat Hanh
Poetry Night @ Boxford Library
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
An evening of original and published poetry in honor of National Poetry
Month. Bring your
own poem or your favorite poems to read.
March 14, 2005, Cancelled
February 14, 2005
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by Wordsworth
"Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll
"Even When the Sky Was Clear" and “Whose Mouth Do I Speak With” by Suzanne S. Rancourt
“To the Normanskill” by David Yezzi
"Forsythia" by Mary Ellen Solt
A Selection from Braided Creek by Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser
“Tours” by C..D. Wright
"The Guest House" and "Love Dogs" by Jelaluddin Rumi
January 10, 2005
"Word of John Ward" by Charles Swanson
"Two Tramps in Mud Time" by Robert Frost
"At Yorktown" by Charles Olson
A Selections of Haiku poems from Japanese Masters
"Life" and selections from "Criminal" by Marshall Mathers (Eminem)
Selections from Sophisticated Alligators by Noel
Miller
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Thanksgiving" by Derek Walcott
"Ars Poetica" by Archibald MacLeish
December 6, 2004
"The Potato Manifesto" by Cynthia Hwang
"Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz
"Wrestling with My Uncle" by John Whittle
"dear Pa and Ma" by Charles Bukowski
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew" by Robert Service
"More Feedback" by John Ashbery
"A Happy Birthday" and "Carrie" by Ted Kooser
November 8, 2004
"In A Library" by Emily Dickinson
"Watering the Horse" by Robert Bly
"Moment" by Adam Zagajewski
"The End and the Beginning" by Wislawa Szymborska
"The Invisible Woman" by Jessica Hornik
"The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert Service
August 23, 2004
"Woodchucks" by Maxine Kumin
"Naming of Parts" by Henry Reed
"Poems 'V'" by George Seferis
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
"Mosquitoes" by Franz Wright
"Vita Nova" by Louise Gluck
"Haiku: Nana's Garden" by Jane Markert Moody
July 12, 2004
Mary Oliver, "The Journey";
Rhina P. Espaillat, "In Absentia";
Billy Collins, "Introduction to Poetry"
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