Invitation to Poetry Out Loud - Sunday, February 15 in Santa Rosa
Larry Robinson
Lrobpoet at sonic.net
Thu Feb 12 09:47:30 PST 2015
For lovers of the oral tradition of poetry, this is an event you don't want to miss. Come and hear some wonderful young people reciting poems that they have learned by heart. It will warm your hearts!
POETRY OUT LOUD SONOMA COUNTY CONTEST
FEBRUARY 15 - 6:30 - 9:30pm
The Glaser Center, 547 Mendocino Ave.,
Santa Rosa
ADMISSION IS FREE!!
Poetry Out Loud is a national recitation program
initiated by the National Endowment for the Arts,
sponsored in all of California by the California Arts Council
and California Poets in the Schools
and in Sonoma County by the Sonoma County Community Foundation.
Oral interpretations of
great poems written in the English language.
The county winner will advance to the state competition.
There is no cost to the school or the students to participate.
The schools involved this year are: Analy, Creekside,
El Molino, Elsie Allen, Maria Carrillo, Montgomery, Piner, Rancho Cotate,
Rincon Valley Christian, Roseland University Prep and Santa Rosa
On Hearing a Poem Recited, Not Read
The poem flew at me
Little darts, pricking my skin
piercing my belly, my arms, my eyes
Flew at me on swift, black wings
trailing a smoky blur past my ears
Flew all around me
furious, then curiously quiet
No words sounded like words
read from a page
They had been lifted
the night before, years before
Flipped up, one by one
letter by letter let fall
on the tongue and dissolved
like melting snowflakes trickling down
through the heart, into the belly
to the toes, the fingertips
Pulled back through the blood
through the brain
down into the back of the throat
into the cheeks and spit out
Little darts of words
big wings of words
charging the air all around me
There were no words, only language
Tongue moved by muscle and blood
The poem entered me and exited
leaving little points of pain and light
soft feathery strokes on my skin and hair
Leaving me empty of words
- Christine Walker
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