I am very tired today.
I have the setlist done already...fastest turnaround ever on this! The new system really works...MUCH better than having to go through 24 hours of CD recordings.
The setlist below. Notes to follow.
5th Annual 24-Hour Poetry Feature
2010 Setlist
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Scott Woods - The Poem I Shall Recite When I Show Up at My First British Open Mic
Scott Woods – Yellow Mornings (as Billy Collins)
Scott Woods – Represent
Scott Woods – She Said, “Before You Write That Love Poem…”
Scott Woods – Haikus – The Weathermen Cycle
Scott Woods – Haikus – The Library Cycle
Scott Woods – Why Your Baby Isn’t Crying
Scott Woods – Everything You Need to Know About Prince in 13 Songs
(8)
I have taken to sharing new work in this hour to kick it off.
This year the new work was the "Prince" poem, a persona long form piece in 13 parts, each named after particular songs. I kind of like it, like, really like it. I think I'll tweak it and see fi I can get some more juice out of it down the line.
Also, the "Billy Collins"-voiced poem was from the electronic non-book I did last year, Five Poems About Laura Yes Yes. This poem is fun to hear if you know Collins.
Also, I edited the British Chris poem to a more generalized form so that it would have a life beyond the one night it was written for.
9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Patricia Smith – Prologue – And Then She Owns You
Patricia Smith – 5 P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Patricia Smith – 11 A.M., Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Patricia Smith – 5 P.M., Thursday, August 25, 2005
Patricia Smith – 7 P.M., Thursday, August 25, 2005
Patricia Smith – Why New Orleans Is
Patricia Smith – Man on the TV Say
Patricia Smith – Only Everything I Own
Patricia Smith – Voodoo I: Love and Passion
Patricia Smith – Won’t Be But a Minute
Patricia Smith – 8 A.M., Sunday, August 28, 2005
Patricia Smith - Inconvenient
Patricia Smith – Company’s Coming
Patricia Smith – The Dawn of Luther B’s Best Day
Patricia Smith - Ghazal
Patricia Smith – 10:30 A.M., Sunday, August 28, 2005
Patricia Smith – She Sees What It Sees
Patricia Smith – What Was The First Sound
Patricia Smith – Luther B Rides Out The Storm
Patricia Smith – Getting’ His Twang On
Patricia Smith – Up On The Roof
Patricia Smith – Voodoo II: Money
Patricia Smith – What to Tweak
Patricia Smith – Michael Brown
Patricia Smith – M’Dear Thinks on Luther B
Patricia Smith - Katrina
Patricia Smith – Voodoo III: Gambling and Lucky Lotto
Patricia Smith – Don’t Drink the Water
Patricia Smith - Loot
Patricia Smith – The President Flies Over
Patricia Smith – Superdome
Patricia Smith – Ms. Thang Sloshes Home
Patricia Smith – Ethel’s Sestina
(33)
This is all out of Patricia Smith's Blood Dazzler book. If you're a poet and you don't own it, you're hurting yourself. I didn't getteh whole book done, and I skipped one or two as the hour started to close in. People want to know what happened to Luther B. Easy way to find out: read the book.
10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Erin Belieu – The Birthmark
Erin Belieu – Last Trip to the Island
Erin Belieu – I Heart Your Dog’s Head
Erin Belieu – The Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers
Erin Belieu – Legend of the Albino Farm
Erin Belieu – Erections
Erin Belieu – Prayer for Men
Erin Belieu – A Sleeping Man Must Be Awakened to be Killed
Erin Belieu – Love Poem
Erin Belieu – The Man Who Tried To Rape You
Dorothy Barresi – Body Says
Dorothy Barresi – The Irish In Me
Dorothy Barresi – Poem for the 35th Anniversary of Valium
Dorothy Barresi – For the Coyote Who Ate Spike: A Revenge in Two Parts
Dorothy Barresi – To the Place of Unhurried Goodbyes
Dorothy Barresi – Fifties Song (or, We Are All Born under Eisenhower)
Dorothy Barresi - Chronic
Dorothy Barresi – Bad Joke
Dorothy Barresi - Rooster
(19)
11:00 pm – Midnight
Charles Bukowski – so you want to be a writer?
Charles Bukowski - commerce
Charles Bukowski – the great escape
Charles Bukowski – and I still won’t vote
Charles Bukowski – just trying to do a good deed
Charles Bukowski – a mechanical Lazarus
Charles Bukowski - fingernails
Charles Bukowski – work-fuck problems
Charles Bukowski – observations on music
Charles Bukowski – the longest snake in the world
Charles Bukowski – I’m flattered
Charles Bukowski – neither Shakespeare nor Mickey Spillaine
Charles Bukowski – the interview
Charles Bukowski - riots
Charles Bukowski – about the mail
Charles Bukowski – who needs it?
Charles Bukowski – found poems
Charles Bukowski – giving thanks
Charles Bukowski – why do you writer so many poems about death?
Charles Bukowski – “dear Mr. Chianski”
Charles Bukowski – strictly bullshit
Charles Bukowski – written before I got one
(22)
I read more Bukowski than this hour indicates, but I couldn't keep straight which ones were read when since he was the coffee bean poet as well. So I put the rest of what I read of his under his name at the end of the list as the CBP. Lesson: don't dedicate an hour to your coffeebean poet unless you're willing to track which ones happened when. Last year when Cristin was the CBP I had her poems printed out on paper and was able to insert them into the book they were "assisting" and could retain when they were read. Didn't do that with Bukowski, which is another lesson: print out your CPB's poems for tracking purposes.
Midnight – 1:00 am
Scott Woods “The Gospel of Smoke: A Prose Poem”
(1)
This was the novel I wrote turned into a prose poem. Got it down from 250 pages to 18. It loses a lot of character, but it leaves behind a cool story. Still needs some more poetry massaging.
1:00 am – 2:00 am
Carl Dennis – Unsent Letter from the Owner of 51 Summer Street
Carl Dennis – A Teacher Looks Back
Carl Dennis – The False and the True
Carl Dennis – To My Body
Carl Dennis – To Happiness
Carl Dennis – Grass
Carl Dennis – On the Bus to Pittsburgh
George Bilgere – The Surgeon General
George Bilgere – Once Again I Fail To Read an Important Novel
George Bilgere – Happy Hour
George Bilgere – The Mastodon at the Carnegie Natural History Museum
George Bilgere – Say My Name
George Bilgere – What Would Jesus Do
George Bilgere – Unwise Purchases
George Bilgere - Chinese
George Bilgere - Waiting
George Bilgere – Museum Piece
George Bilgere - Olympics
George Bilgere – Going to Bed
(19)
2:00 am – 3:00 am
Howard Nemerov – The Snow Globe
Howard Nemerov – False Solomon’s Seal
Howard Nemerov – A Primer of the Daily Round
Howard Nemerov – The Murder of William Remington
Howard Nemerov – A Negro Cemetery Next to a White One
Howard Nemerov – Presidential Address to a Party of Exiles
Howard Nemerov – A Full Professor
Howard Nemerov – An Interview
(8)
Interrupted this hour with some Bukowski as I recall.
3:00 am – 4:00 am
Jack Spicer – Homosexuality
Jack Spicer – One Night Stand
Jack Spicer – Sonnet for the Beginning of Winter
Jack Spicer – Radar
Jack Spicer – from “A Birthday Poem for Jim (And James) Alexander”, “The 49ers…”
(5)
Interrupted this hour with Bukowski as well.
4:00 am – 5:00 am
Brenda Shaughnessy – I’m Over the Moon
Brenda Shaughnessy - Parthenogenesis
Brenda Shaughnessy – Old Bed
Brenda Shaughnessy – Three Summers Mark Only Two Years
Brenda Shaughnessy – I’m Perfect At Feelings,
Brenda Shaughnessy -Drift
Brenda Shaughnessy – Replaceable until You’re Not.
Brenda Shaughnessy – Straight’s the New Gay
Brenda Shaughnessy – A Poet’s Poem
Brenda Shaughnessy – First Date and Still Very, Very Lonely
Brenda Shaughnessy – Don’t Be So Small, Poet
Joy Harjo – The Creation Story
Joy Harjo – A Postcolonial Tale
Joy Harjo – The Song of the House in the House
(14)
5:00 am – 6:00 am
Kay Ryan – The Elephant in the Room
Kay Ryan - Atlas
Kay Ryan – Tar Babies
Kay Ryan - Houdini
Kay Ryan – Hide and Seek
Kay Ryan – The Self Is Not Portable
Kay Ryan – The Edges of Time
Kay Ryan – Train-Track Figure
Kay Ryan - Repetition
Kay Ryan – The Pharaohs
Kay Ryan – Bitter Pill
Kay Ryan - Apology
Kay Ryan – No Rest for the Idle
Kay Ryan – Glass Slippers
Kay Ryan – Deer
Kay Ryan – Sheep In Wolves’ Clothing
Kay Ryan – Masterworks of Ming
Kay Ryan - Doubt
Kay Ryan - Bestiary
Kay Ryan – If the Moon Happened Once
Kay Ryan – Imaginary Eskimos
Kay Ryan – Outsider Art
Kay Ryan – Her Politeness
Kay Ryan – Part Midas
Kay Ryan – The Woman Who Wrote Too Much
Kay Ryan – If She Only Had one Minute
Kay Ryan – A Hundred Bolts of Satin
Kay Ryan - Blandeur
Kay Ryan – Gaps
Kay Ryan – It’s Always Darkest Just Before the Dawn
Kay Ryan – Blunt
Kay Ryan – Failure
(32)
I told a pretty cute Ryan story here as well. Her poems are very short. Some of them are charming. Some of them are to short for their own good. In any event, I enjoyed exposing people to her, and having a chance to really dig into her work. Can't let the laureates just walk away with it, you know?
6:00 am – 7:00 am
Rane Arroyo – Death of a Poet’s Cat
Rane Arroyo – Bad Disguises
Rane Arroyo – I Killed Zorro
Rane Arroyo – The Poet’s Body
Rane Arroyo – My Brief New Orleans
Rane Arroyo – Why I Hate Pittsburgh #1
Rane Arroyo – “I’m not a Feminist, but…”
Rane Arroyo – The Immigrants (Winter Wear)
Rane Arroyo – The Burrito King of Toledo, Ohio
Rane Arroyo – The Dangers of Tequila
Rane Arroyo – North, Again
Rane Arroyo – The Flute
Rane Arroyo – Letter to a Soldier In Iraq
Rane Arroyo - Book Signings
Rane Arroyo – Leaving Again
(15)
Arroyo is SHARP. Not always fun, but really sharp.
7:00 am – 8:00 am
Stephen Dunn – Ars Poetica
Stephen Dunn – The Song
Stephen Dunn – Religion
Stephen Dunn – Democracy
Stephen Dunn – Flirtation
Stephen Dunn – Sixty
Stephen Dunn – The Death of God
Stephen Dunn – After
Stephen Dunn – Burying the Cat
Stephen Dunn – Best
Stephen Dunn – Dismantling the House
Stephen Dunn – Cruelties
Stephen Dunn – Sleeping With Others
Stephen Dunn – Talk To God
Stephen Dunn – Please Understand
(15)
One of my favorites, as always,
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Li-Young Lee – With Ruins
Li-Young Lee – A Final Thing
Li-Young Lee – Immigrant Blues
Li-Young Lee – Seven Happy Endings
Li-Young Lee – Trading for Heaven
Li-Young Lee – My Favorite Kingdom
Li-Young Lee – God Seeks a Destiny
Li-Young Lee – My Indigo
Li-Young Lee – Eating Together
Li-Young Lee – I Ask My Mother To Sing
Li-Young Lee – The Life
Li-Young Lee – My Sleeping Loved Ones
Li-Young Lee – Visions and Interpretations
(13)
I teased him a lot last year. Had to make amends.
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Marvin Bell – The Poem
Marvin Bell – The Mystery of Emily Dickinson
Marvin Bell – The Wild Cherry Tree Out Back
Marvin Bell – To No One in Particular
Marvin Bell – Acceptance Speech
Marvin Bell – Written During Depression: How To Be Happy
Marvin Bell – “Gradually ,It Occurs to us…”
Marvin Bell – Whatever We Were Going To Tell Each Other Won’t Mean As Much
Marvin Bell – An Introduction to My Anthology
Marvin Bell – To Dorothy
Marvin Bell – My Hate
Marvin Bell – The Parents of Psychotic Children
Marvin Bell – The Extermination of the Jews
Marvin Bell – Our Subject Death
Marvin Bell – Obsessive
Marvin Bell – The Willing
Marvin Bell – Study of the Letter A
Marvin Bell – Personal Reasons
Marvin Bell – The Politics of an Object
Marvin Bell – He Had A Good Year
Marvin Bell – A Man May Change
Marvin Bell – I Will Not Be Claimed
Marvin Bell – Victim of Himself
Marvin Bell – Interview
(24)
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Claudia Emerson – Photograph: Farm Auction
Claudia Emerson - Rent
Claudia Emerson – Chimney Fire
Claudia Emerson – Eight Ball
Claudia Emerson – Pitching Horseshoes
Claudia Emerson – Possessions
Claudia Emerson – The Spanish Lover
Claudia Emerson - Frame
Claudia Emerson – My Grandmother’s Plot in the Family Cemetery
Claudia Emerson – Breaking Up The House
Claudia Emerson - Atlas
Claudia Emerson – Migraine: Aura and Aftermath
Claudia Emerson - Artifact
Claudia Emerson - Daybook
Claudia Emerson - Corrective
Claudia Emerson – Driving Glove
Claudia Emerson – Leave No Trace
Claudia Emerson – Buying The Painted Turtle
Jonathan Aaron – Consequences of a Dime
Jonathan Aaron – Meeting Like This
Jonathan Aaron – From a Doorway
Jonathan Aaron – What It Was Like There
Jonathan Aaron – Where You Were Going
(23)
The Emerson stuff came out of her book "Late Wife", which rocks.
11:00 am – Noon
Kim Addonizio - Yes
Kim Addonizio – For You
Kim Addonizio – Lucifer at the Starlite
Kim Addonizio – The Burning
Kim Addonizio – Snow White: the Huntsman’s Story
Kim Addonizio – Dream-Pig
Kim Addonizio – Forms of Love
Kim Addonizio – The Little Dog Upstairs That Never Quits Barking
Kim Addonizio – Book Burning
Kim Addonizio – In the Lonely Universe
Kim Addonizio - Shrine
Kim Addonizio – In the Evening,
Louise Gluck – In the Café
Louise Gluck – Burning Leaves
Louise Gluck – Walking at Night
Louise Gluck - Hunters
Louise Gluck – A Slip of Paper
(17)
Noon – 1:00 pm
Martin Espada – The Republic of Poetry
Martin Espada – The Soldiers in the Garden
Martin Espada – Black Islands
Martin Espada – I Have an Eel in My Heart
Martin Espada – City of Glass
Martin Espada – The Poet’s Coat
Martin Espada – Not Words But Hands
Martin Espada – Rules for Captain Ahab’s Provincetown Poetry Workshop
Martin Espada – Advice to Young Poets
Martin Espada – To the Burmese Albino Python Living in the Next Room
C. K. Williams – After Auschwitz
C. K. Williams – The Blow
C. K. Williams - Glass
C. K. Williams - Dream
C. K. Williams - Tantrum
C. K. Williams – Dirt
(16)
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
William Matthews – Mingus at The Showplace
William Matthews – Mingus at The Half Note
William Matthews – Men at My Father’s Funeral
William Matthews – Self Help
William Matthews – Babe Ruth at The End
William Matthews – The Drunken Baker
William Matthews – Lions in the Cincinnati Zoo
William Matthews - Sympathetic
William Matthews - Familial
William Matthews – Photo of the Author with a Favorite Pig
William Matthews – The Blues
William Matthews – Little Blue Nude
William Matthews – Mingus in Diaspora
William Matthews – Condoms Then
William Matthews – Condoms Now
(15)
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Cornelius Eady – Communion
Cornelius Eady – Discourse of the Young Poet
Cornelius Eady – The Thief
Cornelius Eady – The Professor Tries To inspire His Poetry Students
Cornelius Eady – The Corpse Before the Library of Knowledge
Cornelius Eady – Dance at the Amherst Country Public Library
Cornelius Eady – Radio
Cornelius Eady – My Mother, If She Had Won Free Dance Lessons
Cornelius Eady – Why Do So Few Blacks Study Creative Writing?
Cornelius Eady - Leadbelly
Cornelius Eady – William Carlos Williams
Cornelius Eady – I’m a Fool to Love You
Cornelius Eady – Why Was I Born? A Duet Between John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell
Cornelius Eady – Youngblood
Cornelius Eady – The Cab Driver Who Ripped Me Off
Cornelius Eady – How I Got Born
Cornelius Eady – My Heart
Cornelius Eady – Who Am I?
Cornelius Eady – Where Am I?
Cornelius Eady – One True Thing
Cornelius Eady – What I’m Made Of
Cornelius Eady – What the Sherriff Suspects
Cornelius Eady – Next of Kin
Cornelius Eady – Sympathy
(24)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – On Being Captain of Philadelphia’s Top Ranked 1996…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – The Unborn
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – The Art of Holiday Spirit: Astoria, Queens
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – Friday the Thirteenth
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – In Lieu of Her Boyfriend Writing Any New Poetry…
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz – Bowery & St. Mark’s
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Hearsay
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – What Not To Say
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Homicide Detective
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Wild West
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Pre-Trial Hearing
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Birthday Poem
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Life in Person
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Tea Time
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno – Church of Justice
(15)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Billy Collins – Ballistics
Billy Collins - Pornography
Billy Collins - Quiet
Billy Collins – The Day Lassie Died
Billy Collins – The Effort
Billy Collins – On the Death of a Next-Door Neighbor
Billy Collins - Separation
Billy Collins - Adage
Billy Collins – Baby Listening
Billy Collins - Despair
Billy Collins – The Idea of Natural History at Key West
Billy Collins – The Fish
Billy Collins – The Great American Poem
Billy Collins - Divorce
Billy Collins – Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant
Billy Collins – The Breather
(16)
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lucille Clifton – june 20
Lucille Clifton – for roddy
Lucille Clifton – them and us
Lucille Clifton – the women you are accustomed to
Lucille Clifton – here yet be dragons
Lucille Clifton – the earth is a living thing
Lucille Clifton – dear jesse helms
Lucille Clifton – cigarettes
Lucille Clifton – final note to clark
Lucille Clifton – note, passed to superman
Lucille Clifton - cain
Lucille Clifton - brothers
Ai – Fairy Tale
Ai – True Love
Ai – Passage
Ai – The White Homegirl
(16)
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Sherman Alexie – March Madness
Sherman Alexie – Dangerous Astronomy
Sherman Alexie – The Seven Deadly Sins of Marriage
Sherman Alexie – Gentrification
Sherman Alexie – A Comic Interlude
Sherman Alexie - Heroes
Sherman Alexie - Chicken
Sherman Alexie – Grief Calls Us To The Things of This World
Sherman Alexie – Naked and Damp, With a Towel Around My Head, I Notice…
Sherman Alexie – How to Create an Agnostic
Sherman Alexie – Independence Day
Gary Soto – School Night
(12)
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Scott Woods – Molasses Swamp
Scott Woods – Crop Circles
Scott Woods – When Your White Friend Says Nigger By Accident
Scott Woods - Bipolar
Scott Woods – I Hate Zombies Like You Hate Me
Scott Woods – The Poet Your Man Could Smell Like
Scott Woods – Health Care: The Bill That Eats People
Scott Woods - Topit
Scott Woods – Haikus – The “Under The Dome” Cycle
Scott Woods – Employees Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Work
Scott Woods – How To Make a Crackhead
Scott Woods - Lynchings
Scott Woods – The Most Beautiful Girl in the Projects
(13)
Coffebean poet
Charles Bukowski – writers’ block
Charles Bukowski - cicada
Charles Bukowski – no eulogies, please
Charles Bukowski – she lost weight
Charles Bukowski – high school girls
Charles Bukowski – some people ask for it
Charles Bukowski – an answer to a day’s worth of mail:
Charles Bukowski – dusty shoes
Charles Bukowski – vulgar poem
Charles Bukowski – a name is nothing if the named is nothing
Charles Bukowski – this is a bitter poem
Charles Bukowski - regardless
Charles Bukowski – somebody else
Charles Bukowski – why oh why and oh why not?
Charles Bukowski – working out
Charles Bukowski – sleeping woman
Charles Bukowski - gas
Charles Bukowski – the barometer
Charles Bukowski – reading little poems in little magazines
Charles Bukowski – sour grapes
Charles Bukowski – first poem back
(21)
TOTAL POEMS = 416
I haven't checked yet to see if it breaks the record.
Notes to follow.
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- Scott Woods (
scottwoods) wrote,