MARCH THAW POETRY 2009
February 14, 2009
The Pomona Cultural Center and Ramapough Poets
present
March Thaw Poetry
A MARCH THAW POETRY READING BY RAMAPOUGH
POETS AND FRIENDS
Featured Artists will include:
Musicians Gde Arsa Artha, Bobby Deitch and Chris May
and
Poets Barbara Hurley, Marty Levine,
Ted Mascola, Greg Roman, Irving Sherman,
Harry Waitzman, and Diane Weber
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
at 3:00 PM
During this relaxing afternoon of words and music,
Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate
to perform the words and music of poetry, followed by
an open reading.
Come listen to music and poetry,
view the art on exhibit in the gallery,
and join the celebration!
Program is free and open to the public.
In the Gallery of
Pomona Cultural Center
Route 306 (just north of Pomona Road), Pomona,
New York
For more information, call 845-362-8062.
POETRY IN THE GARDEN
July 22, 2008
Valley Cottage Library and Ramapough Poets present
POETRY in the GARDEN
A Summer Poetry Reading by Ramapough Poets and Friends
Featured Performers include:
Gde Arsa Artha, Bobby Deitch,
Barbara Hurley, Marty Levine, Ted Mascola,
Chris May, Greg Roman,
Harry Waitzman, Diane Weber
and students from Clarkstown Summer Theatre Festival
performing selections from
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM
During this unique evening of words and music,
Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform
the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.
Community participation welcome!
In case of rain or excessive heat, program moves inside.
Refreshments will be provided, courtesy of the Valley Cottage Library.
In the Garden of
Valley Cottage Library
110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, New York 10989
845-268-7700 www.vclib.org
Light breaks where no sun shines
December 17, 2007
by Dylan Thomas on poets.org
Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
A candle in the thighs
Warms youth and seed and burns the seeds of age;
Where no seed stirs,
The fruit of man unwrinkles in the stars,
Bright as a fig;
Where no wax is, the candle shows its hairs.
Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
From poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Slides like a sea;
Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout to the rod
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.
Night in the sockets rounds,
Like some pitch moon, the limit of the globes;
Day lights the bone;
Where no cold is, the skinning gales unpin
The winter’s robes;
The film of spring is hanging from the lids.
Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics dies,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
Harbors at Haverstraw and Ramapough Poets present
POETRY IN THE SOCIAL HALL
A FALL POETRY READING BY RAMAPOUGH POETS AND FRIENDS
Featured Performers include:
Lourdes de Asis, Bobby Deitch, Barbara Hurley,
Marty Levine, Ted Mascola, Chris May,
Greg Roman, Irving Sherman, Harry Waitzman, Diane Weber
Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 7:00 PM
During this unique evening of words and music,
Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform
the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.
Community participation welcome!
In the Social Hall of
Harbors at Haverstraw
The Stalin Epigram
September 15, 2007
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated by W. S. Merwin
from Poets.org
Our lives no longer feel ground under them.
At ten paces you can’t hear our words.
But whenever there’s a snatch of talk
it turns to the Kremlin mountaineer,
the ten thick worms his fingers,
his words like measures of weight,
the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip,
the glitter of his boot-rims.
Ringed with a scum of chicken-necked bosses
he toys with the tributes of half-men.
One whistles, another meows, a third snivels.
He pokes out his finger and he alone goes boom.
He forges decrees in a line like horseshoes,
One for the groin, one the forehead, temple, eye.
He rolls the executions on his tongue like berries.
He wishes he could hug them like big friends from home.
From Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forché, translated by W.S. Merwin and Clarence Brown
End of Summer
August 29, 2007
An agitation of the air,
A perturbation of the light
Admonished me the unloved year
Would turn on its hinge that night.
I stood in the disenchanted field
Amid the stubble and the stones
Amaded, while a small worm lisped to me
The song of my marrow-bones.
Blue poured into summer blue,
A hawk broke from his cloudless tower,
The roof of the silo blazed, and I knew
That part of my life was forever over.
Already the iron door of the North
Clangs open: birds,leaves,snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows.
POETRY in the GARDEN
July 27, 2007
POETRY in the GARDEN
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2007 AT 7PM
A Summer Poetry Reading by Ramapough Poets and Friends
Featured Performers include:
Gde Arsa Artha, Eve Bromberg, Bobby Deitch,
Barbara Hurley, Marty Levine, Ted Mascola,
Chris May, Greg Roman, Fern Schwartz,
Irving Sherman, Harry Waitzman, Diane Weber
and students from Clarkstown Summer Theatre Festival
Tuesday, August 7, 2007 at 7:00 PM
During this unique evening of words and music,
Ramapough Poets and friends will collaborate to perform
the words and music of poetry, followed by an open reading.
Community participation welcome!
In case of rain or excessive heat, program moves inside.
In the Garden of
Valley Cottage Library
110 Route 303, Valley Cottage, New York 10989
845-268-7700 www.vclib.org
“We are Virginia Tech”
April 29, 2007
Nikki Giovanni reading her poem at the convocation.
