One Page Poetry Circle launches in Darien
An enthusiastic group of poetry lovers and readers gathered at the Darien Library Wednesday, July 1, to read poems they had selected with the theme of Poetry and Things Past in mind. Below are links to volumes in the Darien Library collection (or elsewhere if not in the library’s collection) where you can find the poetry and prose read aloud by those in attendance. Next month’s poetry circle meets Wednesday, Aug 5, 7 p.m. Come. Bring a poem. Bring a friend, enthusiasm, questions, views, perspectives (see below for August’s theme)
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Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch
followed by Mark Halliday’s “Get it Again” from the anthology Poems to Read edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz. Read aloud around the circle were Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “Childhood is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies“
Walt Whitman’s “A Noiseless Patient Spider”
Robert Frost’s “Directive”
Miller Williams’s “For Emily”
Hart Crane’s “Repose of Rivers”
W.B. Yeats’s “When You Are Old”
and Rosanna Warren’s “Tide Pickers” from her book Stained Glass
The discussion of notions of the past was extended with responses to lines from Sarah Manguso’s Two Kinds of Decay and David Lehman’s introduction to the Oxford Book of American Poetry.
August 5th’s OPPC theme is Poetry and Rhyme. At least half the fun of the One Page Poetry Circle (as several said at July’s meeting) is the search. To get the ball rolling, consider the wide range of rhyme — perfect and imperfect, feminine, masculine, syllabic, dactylic, oblique, slanted,semi-rhyme, half-rhyme, sprung rhyme, consonance, assonance, alliteration…