The Candlelight Reading Series, hosted by Freddy Niagara Fonseca, is presenting a Haiku and Nature Poetry evening on Saturday, January 15, 2005, 8 PM at Revelations downstairs.

Haiku in its brevity has the power and charm of opening up timelessness in our busy lives. Three local poets, Rolf Erickson, Ken Chawkin and Freddy will be regaling you with just that. Musical accompaniment by Tim Britton on flute, mandolin and whistle.

You will be hearing for instance one of the most famous haiku poets, Basho (1644-1694), who wrote this engaging haiku:

Mosquito at my ear

does it think

I'm deaf?

On the program are haiku selections from the Japanese, nature poetry, dramatic, ethereal and funny haiku written in English by American & British poets, and original poetry of the three readers.

PROGRAM

Freddy: Welcome, intro to the Candlelight Reading Series

Tim: Musical intro

Freddy, His own: The Language of the Trees

Rolf, His own: Why the Birch Sings

Ken, His own: Pinecone Trees

Freddy, Haiku: sound related

Rolf, Haiku: Pond poems

Ken, Haiku: Six haiku on haiku

Freddy, Stanley Kunitz: End of Summer

Walt Whitman: The First Dandelion

Robert Frost: Tree at My Window

Freddy, Haiku: time related

Rolf, William Stafford: Why I Am Happy

His own: Into the Woods

Kenneth Rexroth: Heart of Heracles

Robert Frost: Choose Something Like A Star

His own: North Star

Carl Sandburg: Moon Rondeau

Robert Bly: Late Moon

His own: The Brightest Moon

Rolf, Haiku: Season poems

Ken, His own: As Above So Below

His own: Ode to the Artist

His own: Being in Nature

His own: Crystal Morning

Ken, Haiku: Six nature haiku

Freddy Rolf Ken, Haiku: FUNNIES

Freddy, Richard Eberhart: This Fevers Me

R.P. Blackmur: Mirage

Rolf, His own: One Smooth Stone

Wallace Stevens: 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Francis: Waxwings

William Stafford: Ultimate Problems

His own: Carrying Milk

Ken, His own: What do Trees do

His own: Bats, Birds and Words

His own: Natures Bi-Cycle

His own: Worms

His own: Fireflies

Freddy, Haiku: Miscellaneous

Rolf, Haiku: Miscellaneous

Ken, Haiku: Humorous observations

Freddy, His own: Eternal Source

Freddy, Thomas Moore: The Meeting of the Waters

The 2005 Readings

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