Reading in Honor of Women Poets March 4, 2015
Natassja Linzau reads from Irish women
The rain and the threat of bad weather did not keep Bawans and our fans from turning out for a reading to honor women poets. We had a lovely warm room, some homemade cupcakes from our youngest member, Sabrina Linzau (also our BAWA photographer), and glasses of prosecco. Our BAWA poets Natassja Linzau, Dan Vera, Susan Scheid and Peter Montgomery read from a number of their favorite women writers. For a complete list of the poems and their authors see below. We seemed to lean heavy on Jane Kenyon, Mary Oliver, Elizabeth Bishop and Anne Sexton. But there is nothing wrong with that! In addition, several local poets were represented as well (Sarah Browning, Kim Roberts, Gayle Danley, Natassaja Linzau and Susan Scheid).
Pete Montgomery explains his love of Mary Oliver’s work.
Susan Scheid reads “The Autobiography of Eve” by Ansel Elkins
Dan Vera reads from Jane Kenyon
Cupcakes from March 4 reading
Poems from March 4, 2015 “Honoring Women Poets”
Read by Natassja Linzau
Singapore, Mary Oliver
Young, Anne Sexton
Those Times, Anne Sexton
The Journey, Mary Oliver
Emergence, Sarah Berkeley
We Share the Same Skin, Ruth Carr
The Wedding Dress, Lucy Brennan
The Wicked Witch Reaches Steps 8 and 9 (Wherein She Must Apologize and Make Amends to Those She Has Harmed), Susan Scheid
Beyond Your Reach Dear Robin, Thankful Halsey Gardner Grigg
Love as a Pair of Hand Knit Socks, Natassja Linzau
Read by Dan Vera
Let Evening Come, Jane Kenyon
The Shirt, Jane Kenyon
To Be of Use, Marge Piercy
Mrs. Midas, Carol Ann Duffy
Love Letter, Carol E. Gregory
Death is a Dialogue, Emily Dickinson
The Tilt, , Kim Roberts
The Streak, Jane Shore
Early Words for My Son, Laurie Ann Guerrero
Lines Written in the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, Elizabeth Bishop
One Art, Elizabeth Bishop
Read by Susan Scheid
The Autobiography of Eve, Ansel Elkins
Noah and Joan, Denise Duhamel
On My Triumphant Return to the DMV, Sarah Browning
What do Women Want, Kim Addonizio
What to Wear, Sheila Black
I Will Tell Her About Icarus, Patricia Davis
Ofrenda for my Mother (Ruth Margaret Scheid), Susan Scheid
The Talk, Gayle Danley
Goodbyes, Jillian Weiss
Read by Peter Montgomery
A Litany for Survival, Audre Lorde
Surprise, Jane Kenyon
Some Questions You Might Ask, Mary Oliver
March Mad –, May Sarton
Otherwise, Jane Kenyon
Goldenrod, Mary Oliver
Wild Geese, Mary Oliver