Love Poetry on Valentine's Day

The Candlelight Reading Series, founded and hosted by Freddy Niagara Fonseca presents a Valentine's Day love poetry reading Monday, February 14, 2005 at 8:30 PM after the Valentine's Day dinner at Revelations. Love poems from many traditions will be read by Tracy Chipman, storyteller, Jennifer Howland and Freddy. Paul Jones will play romantic piano music. Admission is free.

PROGRAM

Introduction, Freddy

Dickinson, Emily: Wild Nights, TRACY

Hafiz, Shams-ud-din: The Subject Tonight, J E N

Benton, Walter: It Was a Late May Weekend . . . Remember?, Freddy

piano, Paul

Whitman, Walt: One Hour to Madness and Joy, Freddy

Tagore, Rabindranath: Unending Love, TRACY

Shakespeare, William: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?, Freddy

Kane, Julie: Villanelle for Thel, TRACY

Fonseca, Freddy Niagara: Your Face, Freddy

Rumi, Jeláluddin: The Minute I Heard, J E N

Rumi, Jeláluddin: My Lips Got Lost, Freddy

Cummings, E.E.: may i feel said he, Freddy & TRACY

piano, Paul

Hafiz, Shams-ud-din: At This Party, Paul

Frost, Robert: Wind and Window Flower, Freddy

Neruda, Pablo: I Do Not Love You, J E N

Jeffers, Robinson: And the Stars, Freddy

Automedon, 90-50 BC: Turkish. Belly-dancer, Freddy

Tabb, John Banister: The Tryst, TRACY, Freddy & J E N

Dante, Alighieri: The Love of God, Unutterable and Perfect, Freddy

Oliver, Mary: Wild Geese, TRACY

Jennings, Elizabeth: One Flesh, Freddy

Heguri, Lady: A Thousand Years, Freddy

Stevens, Wallace: Re-statement of Romance, Freddy

Fonseca, Freddy Niagara: Tango in Buenos Aires, Freddy

piano, Paul

Mastin, Florence: From the Telephone, TRACY

Stevenson, Anne: Sous Entendu, TRACY

Fonseca, Freddy Niagara: To Eros, Freddy

Jeffers, Robinson: And the Stars, J E N

Bosun, Yosa: Parting, Freddy

Clifton, Lucille: Homage to My Hips, TRACY

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

Chin, Marilyn: Prelude, TRACY

MacNeil, Kevin: The Harbour, TRACY

Donne, John: To His Mistris Going to Bed, Freddy

piano, Paul

Blake, William: The Garden of Love, Freddy

Marlowe, Christopher, The Passionate Sheperd, Freddy

Ralegh, Walter: The Nymphs Reply, TRACY

Kunitz, Stanley: Touch Me, Freddy

Mirabai, 1498-1550: In Front of His Wife, J E N

Hafiz, Shams-ud-din: One Regret, Freddy

Austin, Mary: Shoshone Wedding Song, J E N, Freddy & TRACY

Tao-Sheng, Kuan: Married Love, Freddy

Jeffers, Robinson: And the Stars, TRACY

Moore, Thomas: The Meeting of the Waters, Freddy

The 2005 Readings

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