The Poetry of Food at Revelations

The Candlelight Reading Series is announcing a unique poetry social with servings of exquisite finger foods on Friday, September 16, 2005, starting 8 PM at Revelations: The Poetry of Food.

Hosted by poets Freddy Niagara Fonseca and Megan Robinson you will be regaled on mouth watering selections of world poetry about food, alternated by scrumptious sushi, cream puffs, cheesecake, and truffles between poems.

Sign up at Revelations (telephone: 641-472-6733) for your reservation. $4 RSVP. $6 at the door.

Portion of proceeds and any donations go to American Red Cross for Hurricane 2005 Relief.

Don’t miss out on any of the delicacies awaiting you. So, sign up and come early!

PROGRAM

~ THE POETRY OF FOOD ~

A Poetry Social Hosted by the Candlelight Reading Series

25 Exquisite World Poems About Food

with Scrumptious Finger Foods Between Poems

Recited by Megan Denise Robinson and Freddy Niagara Fonseca

with Special Guest William Clair Godfrey, Winner of the Food Poetry Contest

Friday, September 16, 2005, 8 PM

Revelations Bookstore, 112 North Main Street, Fairfield, Iowa

M E N U

Sylvia Plath: Mushrooms ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Nancy Willard: How to Stuff a Pepper ~ Megan Denise Robinson

William Carlos Williams: This is Just to Say ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Elizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast ~ Megan Denise Robinson

John Banister Tabb: The Tryst ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Nick Bantock: Bad Manners ~ Megan Denise Robinson

~ SUSHI ~

Freddy Niagara Fonseca: My Creole Belle, A Cakewalk ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Jeanne Foster: Garlic ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Alexander Pope: Once—says an Author ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Pablo Neruda: Ode to the Plate ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Ogden Nash: The Clean Platter ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Marguerite Burnat-Provins: The Fruits You Give Me ~ Megan Denise Robinson

~ CREAM PUFFS ~

Pablo Neruda: Ode to the Artichoke ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Ron Padgett: The Love Cook ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Freddy Niagara Fonseca: Salivating Over a Still Life by Pierre Bonnard ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Louis Jenkins: Diner ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Guy Wetmore Carryl: The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Maxine Kumin: Magellan Street, 1974 ~ Megan Denise Robinson

~ CHEESECAKE ~

William Clair Godfrey: Fairy Trifle ~ William Clair Godfrey

Pablo Neruda: Ode to the Tomato ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Christopher Morley: Nursery Rhyme for the Tender-Hearted ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

Sydney Smith: A Recipe for a Salad ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Gerald Lochlin: The Iceberg Theory ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

D. Lester Young: The Taste of Poetry ~ Megan Denise Robinson

Rumi: The Juice ~ Freddy Niagara Fonseca

~ TRUFFLES ~

The 2005 Readings

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