Please Note: till now, I’ve been adding my National Poetry Month readings to the same post, here. Henceforth, I’ll be sharing each reading in its own individual post, which means you’ll receive them about three times per week for the next two weeks of April. Starting May, I’ll be back to one poetry reading per week.
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It’s a joy to share poetry with you in whatever way you’d like to receive it.
April 13th
Poems 1 and 2 from Lace and Pyrite by Aimee Nezhukamatathil and Ross Gay
Here is a link to Nezhukamatathil reading the Naomi Shihab Nye poem that convinced her to become a poet. (She also says her last name at the beginning, and though I fumbled it in this reading, I’m practicing with the goal of honoring her by getting it right.)
Here is (squee!) a found poem of hers culled from high schoolers’ comments and titled with a phonetic version of her last name, and a poem of mine about mispronouncing the same.
Here is a picture of me in the tree in which I read one of Ross Gay’s essays today from his jubilant and crushing lyrical essay collection Inciting Joy . . . proving that you’re never too old to sit in a tree. (As Gay would say, Delight!)
Love that book, so nice to hear those poems read out loud so beautifully.
That photo on the back of the book of them on the tandem bike is so cute.