Photo Credit: Lauren Rutten
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. If you’d like to learn more about the Giving Voice experience (which anyone can take part in anywhere,) check out our blog post. The packet is full of poems which lend themselves to being read aloud and has been carefully curated by Dodge Poetry staff and Dodge Poets. We’ve included links where we were able to find them. We hope that there will be something for everyone to enjoy.
And now, we hope that you will enjoy them, too!
- Silence by Mourid Barghouti, trans. Radwa Ashour
- The Manoeuvre by William Carlos Williams
- Summer Kitchen by Donald Hall
- Some Sounds I Couldn’t Do Without by Wendy Videlock
- Overturned by Cornelius Eady
- They Call This by C.K. Williams
- A Small Needful Fact by Ross Gay
- Rednecks by Martín Espada
- Close Encounters with the Clueless by Harilyn Rousso
- Something with a Lifespan by Katie Peterson
- We Were Here by Sue Chenette
- The Glory Gets by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- In the Basement of the Goodwill Store by Ted Kooser
- “the straight” by Alice Walker
- Untitled (Blue, Green, & Brown): oil on canvas: Mark Rothko by Ocean Vuong
- Asking the Way by Ko Un, trans. Suji Kwock Kim and Sunja Kim Kwock
- Full Moon by Tu Fu, trans. David Hinton
- Spring (Again) by Michael Ryan
- Etymological Dirge by Heather McHugh
- Viewing Peonies at the Temple of Good Fortune by Su Tung-p’o trans. Burton Watson
- Elevator Music by Henry Taylor
- The Plane by Dunya Mikhail
- Sawdust by Mary Ruefle
- Psalm (Queer) by Aaron Smith
- One Heart by Li-Young Lee
- Listen by Marie Ponsot
- Summer by Jayanta Mahapatra
- Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
- sideshow by Danez Smith
- “Why did the sun rise this morning” by Edward Hirsch
- Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
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