Each year at the Common Gathering, the culminating event of our Spring & Fountain program, we provide attendees with the Giving Voice packet, made especially for that year. The packet is full of poems which lend themselves to being read aloud and, basically, we hope that there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
And now, we hope that you will enjoy them, too!
- Snail by Federico García Lorca, trans. William Jay Smith
- American Milk by Ruth Stone
- Learning to play frisbee by Gabeba Baderoon
- Lyrical by Joseph Millar
- The World inside This One by Jean Valentine (epigraph by Eluard)
- Talking in Bed by Philip Larkin
- Power Outage by Xi Chuan, trans. Lucas Klein
- Equinox by Kyle Dargan
- Stealing The Scream by Monica Youn
- hunger by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez
- Letter From My Brain To My Heart by Rachel McKibbens
- Love Poem by Gregory Orr
- What I Learned from The Incredible Hulk by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- Life is Beautiful by Dorianne Laux
- The Trouble with Frogs by Virgil Suarez
- Switchblade by Michael Ryan
- House Training by Aafa Michael Weaver
- from Gas by Charles Bukowski
- My Heart by Frank O’Hara
- I’ll See It When I Believe It by Kyle Dargan
- Platonic Optimism by Broc Rossell
- The Swallow by Alberto Blanco trans. W.S. Merwin
- The Perfect Moment by Tony Hoagland
- A Few Words on the Soul by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. Stanislaw Baranczak
- Elusive by Denise Levertov
- We Have Chocolate Pudding by Mike Topp
- In Praise of Ice Cream Vending Machines at a Greyhound Bus Station by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- How I Learned Bliss by Oliver de la Paz
- The Good Life by Tracy K. Smith
If you’d like a copy of our Giving Voice packet for educational purposes, write to us at festival@grdodge.org
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