Tuesday, April 28, 2009

After Her Stroke, Our Family Remembers the HurricaneAround the

After Her Stroke, Our Family Remembers the Hurricane
Around the table, she blinks her response
to our questions and listens to the noise
the rest of us make, nodding her head
until someone forgets and pauses halfway
through the story: Tell us what happened next.
Through the window, this year's tobacco
is just visible behind the barn.
The room is bright and everything silent,
even the break of the crop's stalks in the wind.
Someone else picks up where the last
left off, and another interrupts to tell it
better, the afternoon losing itself to rain
that has just set in. She turns away
from us to face the windows, my uncle
visible beneath the thunder as he collects
damaged leaves. When she thinks no one
is watching, her hands rise to the neck
and I see her fingers trace the throat,
the outline where the voice once belonged.

-- Kerri French

Saturday, April 25, 2009

WRITERS CORPS: Anthology Reading



Chad Sweeney reads "The Piano Teacher" [1:59]



Jeffrey McDaniel reads "Day 4305" [4:58]



Elissa Perry reads "Becoming Darla" [8:01]



Maiana Minahal reads "Ordinary" [1:12]



Maiana Minahal reads "You Bring Out the Filipina in Me" [1:56]



Thomas Centolella reads "Transparency" [1:57]



Thomas Centolella reads "Dojo" [2:29] Text of "Dojo"

Monday, April 13, 2009

POETRY MAGAZINE READING: Not the Usual Suspects Feb. 12, 2009 at AWP



Craig Arnold reads "Incubus" [7:10] Text of "Incubus"



Ange Mlinko reads "Year Round" [0:57] Text of "Year Round"



Jacob Saenz reads "Sweeping the States" [1: 32] Text of Sweeping the States



Ange Mlinko reads "Gallimaufry" [1:37]



A. E. Stallings reads "Triolet on a Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther" [1:04] Text of "Triolet ona Line Apocryphally Attributed to Martin Luther"



A. E. Stallings reads On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia [3:11] Text of "On Visiting a Borrowed Country House in Arcadia"

Monday, April 6, 2009

PITT POETRY READING — AWP CONFERENCE [Feb. 13, 2009]



Nancy Krygowski reads "Still Wet" [2:52]



Nancy Krygowski reads "I Get Happy Wen I Shudder" [1:55]



Nancy Krygowski reads "Velocity" [2:40]



Afaa Michael Weaver reads "Beginnings" [0:51]



Afaa Michael Weaver reads "Working of Miracles" [1:46]



Afaa Michael Weaver reads "Interpretation of Tongues" [1:22]