Harvest Time Poetry & Bhajans

Come enjoy harvest time with The Candlelight Reading Series on Friday, September 15, 2006 at 8 PM at Revelations, upstairs. John Roberts, Patricia Kirti Wood, Lise Mahima Marcell, James Duke, Laura Weinberg, Roses Derise (formerly Sharalyn Harris), Bill Godfrey, Nola Nelson, Deborah Roberts, Tony Ellis, Diana Quinlan, and Freddy Niagara Fonseca will read poetry, sing bhajans, play cymbals, drums, flute, harmonium heralding the harvest. In addition to that, there will be a contest for Fairfield writers. Free admission.

PROGRAM

Deborah—Robert Frost—Gathering Leaves

Deborah—Deborah Roberts—Play Misty with Me

Tony—Tony Ellis—Poetry

Tony—Tony Ellis—The Song of Passing

Flute Interlude

JAI AMBE JAGADAMBE

Laura—Laura Weinberg—Harvest Time Prayer

Nola—Sylvia Plath—Poppies in October

Bill—Bill Godfrey—It’s Time to See the Trees Striptease

Bill—E.E. Cummings—Hist Wist

Flute Interlude

WHO TELLS ME THOU ART DARK

Roses—Roses Derise—If I Were the Autumn

Roses—Roses Derise—I Know a Place in a Far-Off Wood

Freddy—Freddy Niagara Fonseca—Dark Pond

Freddy—Oliver Wendell Holmes—The Last Leaf

Flute Interlude

JAI RADHA MADHAVA

Nola—Ted Hughes—The Harvest Moon

Bill—Bill Godfrey—Look for Me in the Gold of the Sunset

Bill—Bill Godfrey—Fairy Trifle

Roses—Roses Derise—The Old Man’s Garden

Flute Interlude

MORNING HAS BROKEN

Laura—Hafez—The Moon is Also Busy

Laura—Hafez—And for No Reason

Patricia—Orphic Hymn—To Nature

Patricia—Wallace Stevens—Willow Poem

Flute Interlude

KALI DURGE NAMO NAMA

Tony—Rumi—Grainy Taste

Tony—Rumi—Out in Empty Sky

Nola—D.H. Lawrence—Dolor of Autumn

Nola—Stanley Kunitz—End of Summer

Flute Interlude

BRINGIN IN THE SHEAVES

Deborah—Deborah Roberts—Sunrise and Moon’s Tail

Deborah—Carl Sandburg—Under the Harvest Moon

Freddy—B.H. Fairchild—A Starlit Night

Freddy—Freddy Niagara Fonseca—Waking up Today

Flute Interlude

HEART OF THE MOTHER

Patricia—Robert Frost—A Leaf Treader

Patricia—Kathleen Raine—Change

The 2006 Readings

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