Thursday Poems Series

Please join us again this semester for our Thursday Poems series, which takes place between 5-5:30 PM every Thursday afternoon in 139 Combs. Finish up every hard week of work with a half an hour of really good poetry.

Fall 2011

8 Sept: Mike McCarthy reads B. H. Fairchild

15 Sept: Special Guest Poet: Michael Perrow

22 Sept: Jessica Locke & friends read Eugenio de Salazar (contact Professor Locke in MDFL for details for the readers/poster)

29 Sept: A special Banned Books Week reading

6 Oct: Tim Waltonen reads Denise Levertov

13 Oct: Eric Lorentzen reads “Best Poems Ever”

20 Oct: Claudia Emerson reads Philip Levine

27 Oct: Gary Richards reads Stephen Sondheim

3 Nov: Paul Fallon’s Linguistics 310 students read Old & Middle English Poetry

10 Nov: Colin Rafferty’s English 470D students read “multi-genre”

17 Nov: Antonio Barrenechea reads from Gaspar de Villagra’s “Historia de la Nueva Mexico”

1 Dec:  Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s English 302A students read their own original poems

POEMS of THURSDAYS PAST

Fall 2010

2 Sept: Tim Waltonen reads an “American Songbook”
9 Sept: Connie Smith reads “A Cadence of Hooves”: a celebration of horses
16 Sept: SPECIAL READING: Warren Rochelle reads from his new book, The Called (at the mansion)
23 Sept: María Laura Bocaz-Leiva, Marcelo Fajardo and Warren Rochelle will read poems by Oscar Hahn
30 Sept: Antonio Barrenechea reads Mario de Andrade’s “Hallucinated City”
7 Oct: Jeremy Larochelle will read poems by Martín Espada
14 Oct: GUEST POET: Jon Pineda (NOTE: changed to Combs 139, the usual venue)
21 Oct: Mara Scanlon’s English 371 students present “Why Poetry Matters”
28 Oct: Claudia Emerson presents “The Art of Losing: A Reading of Elegies”
4 Nov: Mike McCarthy reads Robinson Jeffers
11 Nov: Ben LaBreche’s English 317 students read short Renaissance lyrics
18 Nov: Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s English 302A students read their own original poems

Spring 2010

21 Jan: Creative Writing Scholarship Award Winners Reading
28 Jan: Antonio Barrenechea reads E. J. Pratt’s “The Cachalot”
4 Feb: Connie Smith reads Rita Dove
11 Feb: Tim Waltonen reads John Ashbery
18 Feb: Mike McCarthy reads Ronald Johnson
25 Feb: Brady Earnhart reads Robert Lowell
11 Mar: Jessica Locke, Maya Mathur, and Patricia Orozco read the works of Spanish women poets
18 Mar: Natalie Sayth reads Marianne Moore
25 Mar: Ana Chichester and Connie Smith read Gabriela Mistral
1 Apr: Eric Lorentzen reads “Poetry?”
8 Apr: Special Guest Poet: Steve Cushman
15 Apr: Warren Rochelle and Brady Earnhart’s English 302A students read their own original poems

Fall 2009

3 Sept: Eric Lorentzen reads W. H. Auden
10 Sept: Zach Whalen reads “ergon/logos” by Molleindustria
17 Sept: Guest Poet: Betty Adcock reads from her collection “Slantwise” (William Street House)
24 Sept: Jessica Locke and Maya Mathur read Jose Marti
1 Oct: Patricia Orozco and Connie Smith read Gloria Anzaldua
8 Oct: Mike McCarthy reads Hafiz
15 Oct: DIGITAL WHITMAN (org. Mara Scanlon)
22 Oct: Jim Gaines reads Baudelaire
29 Oct: Chelsea Newnam reads Marge Piercy
5 Nov: Tim Waltonen reads Elizabeth Bishop
12 Nov: Gary Richards’ English 375 students read comic poems
19 Nov: Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s English 302A students read their own original poems

Spring 2009

22 January: Eric Lorentzen reads from William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience

29 January: Shama Ahmed reads “Borne Across”: Poets in Translation: (Bengali, Arabic, Spanish)

5 February: Tim Waltonen reads Richard Wright

12 February: Elizabeth Rabin reads “Murder Ballads”

19 February: Judith Parker’s LING 305 students read from Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination

26 February: Zach Whalen gives a New Media poetry reading

12 March: Connie Smith & Ana Chichester read Nancy Morejón

19 March: Mara Scanlon’s ENGL 457P students read Emily Dickinson & H.D.

26 March: Maya Mathur & Jessica Locke read 16th – & 17th- Century Women’s Poetry

2 April: Jim Gaines & “Paris Mutuel” read Jacques Prévert

9 April: Chris Foss reads poems about disability

16 April: Warren Rochelle & Brady Earnhart’s ENGL 302A students read their own original poems

Fall 2008

4 September: Eric Lorentzen reads Walt Whitman

11 September: Shama Ahmed reads Philip Levine

18 September: Guest Poet: Sheryl St. Germain reads from her collection “Let It Be a Dark Roux”

25 September: Connie Smith and Jessica Locke read Latina Poets

2 October: Jeremy Larochelle reads recent Amazonian poetry

9 October: Antonio Barrenechea reads Alonso de Ercilla’s “La Araucana” (The Araucaniad)

16 October: Gary Richards Brenda Marie Osbey

23 October: Phi Beta Kappa Series Guest Speaker: Anne Mellor

30 October: Special Event: Steve Watkins reads from his book Down Sand Mountain

6 November: Claudia Emerson reads

13 November: Colin Rafferty reads from his own original non-fiction

20 November: English 302A students read their own original poems (Rochelle/Earnhart)

Spring 2008

24 January: Antonio Barrenechea reads Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Evangeline”

31 January: Tim Waltonen reads Philip Levine

7 February: Taja Winston reads poetry of resistance about Black America

14 February: Claudia Emerson organizes a special Valentine’s Day session: our favorite love poems

21 February: Whitney Roberts reads Gwendolyn Brooks

28 February: Gardner Campbell reads S. T. Coleridge

13 March: Tyler Babbie reads Gerard Manley Hopkins

20 March: Connie Smith and Jessica Locke read Rosario Costellaños

27 March: Mara Scanlon reads Derek Walcott

3 April: Eric Lorentzen reads William Wordsworth’s “Michael”

10 April: William Williams reads William Cullen Bryant

17 April: Brady Earnhart’s 302A students read their own original poems

Fall 2007

6 September: Chris Foss reads “The Sphinx” and other deliciously decadent and/or shockingly scandalous poems by Oscar Wilde

13 September: Tyler Babbie reads W. H. Auden

20 September: Connie Smith reads Audre Lorde

27 September: Guest reader: Warren Rochelle reads from his new novel Harvest of Changlings (5-6 PM, with a reception and book signing to follow!)

4 October: Brady Earnhart reads Robert Creely

11 October: Claudia Emerson reads Steve Scafidi

18 October: Tim Waltonen reads Lisel Mueller

25 October: Elizabeth Staggs reads Lawrence Ferlinghetti

1 November: Eric Lorentzen reads Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”

8 November: Whitney Roberts reads Derek Mahon

15 November: Guest Poet: Fred Chappell

29 November: English 302A reads their own original poems (Warren Rochelle/Brady Earnhart)

Spring 2007

25 January: Gardner Campbell reads Robert Herrick

1 February: Antonio Barrenechea reads Joel Barlow

8 February: Judith Parker organizes Poems for Peace

15 February: Taja Winston reads Langston Hughes

22 February: Guest Speaker: Nokuthula Mazibuko

1 March: Gregg Stewart reads Robert Frost

15 March: Connie Smith and Ana Chichester read Alfonsina Storni

22 March: Guest Poet: Carmen Leñero

29 March: Bill Kemp reads Tennyson

5 April: Maya Mathur reads “Beastly Tales and Revolting Rhymes”

12 April: Eric Lorentzen and Chris Foss read The Smiths

19 April: Warren Rochelle’s and Brady Earnhart’s 302A students read their own original poems

Fall 2006

Each Thursday from 5:00-5:30 in Combs 139.

7 September: Marie McAllister reads Comic Poems about Love and Marriage from the Restoration

14 September: Eric Lorentzen reads the Brownings

21 September: Tyler Babbie reads Edna St. Vincent Millay

28 September: Gary Stanton reads “Cowboy Poetry”

5 October: Gregg Stewart reads John Crowe Ransom

12 October: Connie Smith reads Pattiann Rogers

19 October: Maya Mathur reads 16th & 17th Century “Carpe Diem” poems

26 October: Whitney Roberts reads Louise Gluck

2 November: Tim Waltonen reads Oppen & Ignatow

9 November: Chris Foss reads from the Greatest Poem of All-Time

16 November: Courtney McAllister reads Charles Wright

30 November: English 302A reads their own original poems (Warren Rochelle/Brady Earnhart)