Poetry on Tape 2.5.25

So midway through, the chat window just kinda stopped for me. So sadly, I missed the chat from all you :( I get the sense it was working for everyone else though.

We started out with Walt Whitman and I Hear it Was Charged Against Me

I HEAR it was charged against me that I sought to destroy
        institutions;
But really I am neither for nor against institutions;
(What indeed have I in common with them?—Or what with the
        destruction of them?)
Only I will establish in the Mannahatta, and in every city of These
        States, inland and seaboard,
And in the fields and woods, and above every keel, little or large,
        that dents the water,
Without edifices, or rules, or trustees, or any argument,
The institution of the dear love of comrades.

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I started to (re)watch Northern Exposure on disc and in the second episode, the radio DJ is reading Walt Whitman on the air!

Then we read

Wil Price

:

Resounding Gongs

Which, the capitalization in this one almost fell like stage directions, so I felt it was calling to be read.

Then

Gerald J. Woolf

who is doing a very nice translation of Georg Trakl:

Georg Trakl: Lament II

Following that

Stephanie Simmons “Yves”

with:

Bluestreak Crystals

Her post has some comments on the history of shells as monetary value too which is interesting.

The Penultimate Poem went to

Daniel V. Gaglio

with:

War on the Subway

Which I restacked this week with this comment:

Finally, I’m really enjoying

Allison Taylor Conway

Morning Poems:

I too, am done with April.

I closed out Poetry Month with a live performance here, in case you missed it:

Enjoy the weekend!