The Candlelight Reading Series presents a Love &

Erotic Poetry Reading on Valentine’s Day, Tuesday, February 14, 2006, 8 PM at Revelations Bookstore, 112 North Main Street, Fairfield, Iowa, read and interpreted by Patricia Kirti Wood and Freddy Niagara Fonseca, and the two winners of the Love Poetry Contest with musical accompaniment by Robin Pfoutz on cello.

Poets, young or old, never seem to get enough of writing about love, and every poetic style or period approaches the subject very differently. Some traditions look at love more philosophically while others wax appropiately poetic about their beloved, and others again can get pretty wild. Few people know that a substantial amount of erotic poetry exists worldwide also, and some of it is positively hilarious and ehhh... quite to the point!

Tied in to the reading, there was a local poetry contest. Fairfield poets were invited to send in an original love or erotic poem. Out of some 12 entries, two winning poems have been selected. The winners are Mary Ellen Maguire for her poem 'Chocolate' and Sharalyn Harris for 'I Loved You, I Suppose.' Both ladies have been invited to come read their poem.

PROGRAM

    IN YOU THE EARTH

FNF - Charles Baudelaire - Invitation to the Voyage - Cello

PKW - Bella Akhmadulina - The Bride

FNF - Pablo Neruda - In You the Earth

PKW - Robert Frost - Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same - Cello

FNF - Walter Benton - It Was a Late May Weekend . . . Remember?

D U E T - Rubén Darío - I Love, You Love - Cello

    LOVE AND A QUESTION

FNF - Octavio Paz - Sunstone (excerpt)

PKW - Robert Frost - Love and a Question - Cello

D U E T - Hayden Carruth - 6

PKW - Louise Labé - We See Each Living Thing Finally Die

FNF - Theodore Roethke - I Knew a Woman - Cello

    THE EFFECTS OF MEMORY

FNF - Buson - Parting

PKW - Wallace Stevens - Re-statement of Romance

FNF - Francisco de Terrazas - To a Pair of Legs

PKW - Judith Viorst - The Honeymoon Is Over - Cello

FNF - Michael Burch - The Effects of Memory

D U E T - Rabindranath Tagore - Unending Love - Cello

PKW - Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty - Cello

    INTERMISSION & CELLO SOLO - ROBIN PFOUTZ

Winner 1 - Sharalyn Harris - I Loved You, I Suppose

    SPEAK TO US OF LOVE

FNF - Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Tango in Buenos Aires

PKW - Jorge Gaitan Duran - They Unite Naked

D U E T - Khalil Gibran - Then Said Almitra, Speak to Us of Love

FNF - Octavio Paz - Shrine

PKW - Sulpicia - At Last Love Has Come - Cello

FNF - Petronius - Good God, What a Night that Was

Winner 2 - Mary Ellen Maguire - Chocolate

    DISTANT MOUNTAINS

PKW - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - I Think of Thee! - Cello

FNF - Hafiz - A Potent Lover

PKW - Delmira Agustini - The Intruder

FNF - Freddy Niagara Fonseca - Distant Mountains - Cello

    NIGHT'S BEST OF ALL

PKW - Huang O - Every Morning

FNF - Shakespeare - When My Love Swears that She is Made of Truth

D U E T - May Sarton - Prothalamion for an Autumn Wedding - Cello

FNF - Sextus Propertius - Night’s Best of All

    THE DREAM

PKW - Robert Frost - Devotion

FNF - Octavio Paz - (Palpar) Touch - Cello

PKW - Adrienne Rich - The Insusceptibles

D U E T - Theodore Roethke - The Dream - Cello

The 2006 Readings

Design and copyright 2009 Freddy Niagara Fonseca

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