The front porch is a space in-between our private family space and our more public spaces where we create our own definition of “community.” In many parts of Chicago, this space is often a battleground.
Friday, April 9, 1976
Charles Henri Ford, reading his poetry
Accompanied by Indra of Nepal, on guitar, and showing Johnny Minotaur, a new film by Ford
the blood grows, the hair flows, the river burns,
from the veins, from the skin, by the home of the child,
pulled and repelled by Bloody Bones;
renewal of the swoon
Carlos Fuentes (1928 – 2012) entrevistado por Charlie Rose, Lunes 21 de Febrero 2011 Carlos Fuentes (1928 – 2012) interviewed by Charlie Rose on Monday February 21st, 2011
It seems to me that it’s in the poetry of language, what we call the prose style, and also finding the poetry of an individual character in his or her personality that brings on this sense of uniqueness.
Let the juices of watermelons sparkle, be candles
Near the shore. Yesterday’s rind is today’s
Twenty-four year old nostalgia. Listen–
Save the black seeds, and please laugh at your face.
The sea comes into my left ear on a visit, turns pink
Then goes away. I drop the seashell, return gingerly
Listen to Roland Flint’s 1994 reading with Garrison Keillor at the Poetry Center of Chicago:
Roland Flint begins at 21:50 minutes.
Any day’s writing may be the last,
He’s reminded at 2 in the morning,
Making this year’s last Italian
Notes, before readying his machine
And self to get aboard the bigger
Machine and fly, Dio Volente, home.
The late poet Roland Flint speaks with Linda Pastan during his 1999 service as Maryland Poet Laureate. A former professor at Georgetown University and author of seven books of poetry, Flint talks of his last collection, Easy, with the poet Pastan. They discuss the irony and “reverberation” of the title poem after Flint reads it.
Friday, April 4 1986
Thursday, October 17, 2002
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
Sunday, June 26 2006
Thursday, October 2, 2014
The dove-white gulls
on the wet lawn in Washington Square
in the early morning fog
each a little ghost in the gloaming
Audio recording of the Poetry Center Reading Series featuring Billy Collins, Andrei Codrescu, Ron Padgett, Lucille Clifton, Mark Perlberg, Li-Young Lee, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Anne Waldman, Yusuf Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Ted Kooser, Paul Carroll, Jorie Graham, and Paul Hoover.