Honored to be invited back to read Poetry@theCentury, the Century Association, in New York City with such a distinguished group of poets, translators, academics and polymaths. This year's reading included reflections of the Ancient Greek, Archaic English and more.
There was moments of great acknowledgement of the late William La Riche who was both architect and Centurion with whom I had the pleasure of knowing and reading with at the Century Club.
My contribution included a reading dedicated to La Riche via my poem entitled, The Pharos, from my first collection, Excavated Athens to Alexandria, as La Riche had great interest in the Pharos of Alexandria, its history, myth and architecture as per his book on the underwater excavations of The Pharos of Alexandria.
Once again, many distinguished voices and verses including Elizabeth J. Coleman, Michael Salcman, Lee Slonimsky, E. Ward Smith, Martin Holub +++
It was this same evening, I heard Beowulf like I had not heard it before...read in the most exceptional Old English while paired with Seamus Heaney's translation with exceptional explanation of how much of the poem simply does not translate word-for-word into English as we know it.
Wonderful evening and so honored to be a part of this reading!!