Highlights From the 2005 Poetry Readings

Friday, January 27, 2006, 8 PM, Revelations, 112 North Main Street, Fairfield, Iowa

This event was originally scheduled January 20, but because of the blizzard tearing down Fairfield, it has been rescheduled to the 27th.

The Candlelight Reading Series celebrates its first anniversary featuring Ken Chawkin, Tracy Chipman, Chandra Das, guitar/vocals, Barbara Dreier, Robert Fitzgerald, Sharalyn Harris, David Hawthorne, guitar, Jannou Jaxtheimer, Freddy Niagara Fonseca, Sally Moburg, cymbals/vocals, James Moore, guitar, Nola Nelson, Nynke Passi, Diana Quinlan, Megan Robinson, John Schirmer, guitar, Christine Schrum, Mark Smith, Raquel Valls, Kali Wood, tambourine/vocals

PROGRAM

    A CELEBRATION OF GREAT WOMEN POETS

Sharon Olds: Topography - Freddy

Marianne Stone: Loretta the Luminary - Diana

Katharyn Howd Machan: Black Swans: A Poem for Voices - Christine

Barbara Dreier: Spring Rites All - Barbara

May Sarton: Evening Music - Sharalyn

Lucille Clifton: Homage to My Hips - Megan - (Key of E - blues)

    VALENTINE’S DAY LOVE POETRY READING

E.E. Cummings: may i feel said he - Freddy & Raquel

John Banister Tabb: The Tryst - Freddy - (Key of A/F)

    POETRY IN SPANISH & TRANSLATION

Amado Nervo: Cobardia - Cowardice - Freddy & Jannou

Ramón Lopez Velarde: Mientras muere la tarde - In the Dying Afternoon - Freddy & Jannou

Octavio Paz: La ciudad se despliega - The City Unfolds - Freddy & Jannou - (Key of E/F)

    HAIKU AND NATURE POETRY

Computer related haiku - Freddy, Ken & Robert

Six original haiku - Ken

Six American haiku - Robert

Six sound related Japanese haiku - Freddy - (Key of D - open)

    PORTUGUESE POETRY WITH TRANSLATIONS

Fernando Pessoa: Viajar! Perder Países! - To Travel! Leave Countries - Raquel & Freddy

Adília Lopes: La Femme de Trente Ans - Thirty-Year-Old Woman - Raquel & Freddy

Freddy Niagara Fonseca: Carnival in Rio! - Carnaval no Rio! - Raquel & Freddy - (Key of Am/D)

    EMILY DICKINSON & WALT WHITMAN

Emily Dickinson: Two Poems - Nynke

Walt Whitman: To You - Mark

Walt Whitman: One Hour to Madness and Joy - Freddy - (Key of G/F)

    SHAKESPEAREAN SONNETS & SCENES FROM ROMEO & JULIET

Shakespeare: Alas, ‘tis True I Have Gone Here and There - Freddy - (Key of Em/A/D/G)

    BLAKE, KEATS, SHELLEY AND BYRON

Percy Shelley: Rarely, Rarely Comest Thou, Spirit of Delight - Freddy & Tracy or Diana

William Blake: The Fly - Freddy & Tracy

Lord Byron: When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay - Freddy & Diana

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale - Freddy & Diana - (Key of Dm/Am open)

    SONGS, POEMS, STORIES OF THE SEA

Walter de la Mare: The Silver Penny - Freddy

Ogden Nash: The Sea-gull - Tracy or Megan

Thomas Moore: The Meeting of the Waters - Freddy - (Key of Em9/Gmaj7/Cflat5/C)

    THE POETRY OF FOOD

Pablo Neruda: Ode to the Tomato - Megan

Sylvia Plath: Mushrooms - Freddy - (Key of C)

    MYSTICAL POETRY

Mirabai: Is All this God Stuff Real? - Sharalyn

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

Yeshe Tsogyel: This Self-Sufficient Black Lady Has Shaken Things Up - Sharalyn (Key of Am7/D6)

    SUMMER POEMS IN CENTRAL PARK

Nikki Giovanni: ego-tripping (there may be a reason why) - Megan

James Moore: Wild Rabbit in the Woods - James

Hsieh Ling-yün: By the Stream - Freddy & Diana - (Key of B/G/A)

    AN EVENING OF IRISH POETRY

Derek Mahon: Everything Is Going to Be All Right - Freddy

Thomas Moore: To_______ - Megan - (Key of Em, fast)

    POETRY AT THE ZOO

John Updike: On the Inclusion of Miniature Dinosaurs in Breakfast Cereal Boxes - Nola

Hafez: Two Bears - Megan

Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting - Freddy - (Key of A/D)

    DEVOTIONAL SONG & POETRY CELEBRATING GOD

Hafez: What has Been Given - Kali

Hafez: Everywhere - Freddy - (Key of G/C/G/C/G/F/G)

Shri Ram, Jai Ram, a bhajan performed by Chandra, Kali, Sally, Freddy

The 2006 Readings

Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca

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