[local-music] Poetry Reading Friday 4/6 @ The Daily Grind

[Michael R. Moore]

We'd love to have musicians and friends of musicians come celebrate spring
and National Poetry Month at a COMMUNITY POETRY READING

Friday April 6th
Noon-1:00
The Daily Grind Cafe
Finlandia University, Portage Campus

Bring your own poetry to read, or bring your book favorites, or your least
favorites, or make one on the spot, or eat lunch and listen

Sponsored by: The Daily Grind Café, the Community Literacy Journal,
Pank: A Review of Writing and Art, and the Black Students Association,
Michigan Tech University

Info: Michael Moore
(906) 370-0206
mmoore@mtu.edu

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I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

Billy Collins

*

>From the complications of loving you
I think there is no end or return.
No answer, no coming out of it.
Which is the only way to love, isn’t it?
And I say to my fingers, type me a pretty song.
And I say to my heart: rave on.

Mary Oliver

*

Night is here again, baby,
I'm stretched out on my bed
Seeing all kinds of crazy notions
Running through my head

I need a progressive woman;
I need an awfully liberal woman.
There ain’t no reactionary baby
Can ease my revolutionary mind.

Woodie Guthrie