I am honored to have been invited to read at the Century Association, the 10th Anniversary, Poetry@theCentury in New York City on Tuesday, March 20, 2018.
Voices and verses included Martin Holub reciting Thomas Nash's famous poem in time of Plague, I'm Sick and I Must Die; William La Riche read his Anatolia Incursions. Richard Owen performed Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death; Stewart Rosenblum read his Love and She Said; Vicky Murphy gave us a beautiful poem by her great grandfather, also a Centurion; and Ward Smith performed Frost's Mending Wall. John Major read his limerick, A Song for Xi Jing Ping; Licia Hahn read Archibald MacLeish's Immortal Autumn. Michael Straus read an excerpt from his book, Grapes and the Wind, Neruda poems in translation (Spuyten Duyvil, 2018); Ruth Padel read her poem, On Migration; Carol Goodman gave us her poem, The Sycamores of Rome; Lee Slonimsky read his poem Epilogue : Pacifiste and Elizabeth Coleman read her French translation of Lee Slonimsky's poem included in her collection in translation, Pythagore Amoureux.
I read a few poems written in my new Triptych form, Architecture, Baccarat Vase, Rothko’s Hand and The Way Out Is In, from my recent collection, Therapy with Antigone and the Trilogy Verses (Spuyten Duyvil, 2017).