[local-music] Poetry Reading Friday, 5/18 @ the Daily Grind Café

[Michael R. Moore]

COMMUNITY POETRY READING

Friday, May 18TH
Noon-1:00 P.M.
Daily Grind Café
Finlandia University
Portage Campus

Bring your own poems to read, or read your 
favorites from books, or read your least 
favorites, which is sometimes fun, or come eat 
lunch and listen.

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

Daily Grind:
483-2220

I'm sending this out a bit early because on the 
off-chance you'll be in the Twin Cities next week 
and want more, there's an open reading Monday the 
14th at The Artists' Quarter in St. Paul -- 408 
St. Peter Street -- in the Hamm Building, 
downstairs. The reading is at 9:00 p.m., 
following a jazz show by Green, a "burning 
post-bop quartet."

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So I Read this Mary Oliver Poem

So I read this Mary Oliver poem
To a woman the other night
-- I should've known better --
She cocked her head
Trying to understand
How a grasshopper can fling itself, or why,
Where you would've nodded

She said "that's nice"
Where your gut would've
Smiled, audibly

She wanted me to read another
Where you would've reached
To snatch the book
Wanting your turn
And I'd distract you with Wm. Blake again
Which is why you never got
To read a poem to me

Which is why I read to strangers
And cashiers and students now
Which is why if you were here I'd fill
Your lap with poems
One by one like petals piling up
Until it felt to you like
A bouquet of
Presence and purpose.

mm