Narrative Poetry & Haiku

This month’s Candlelight Reading Series subject is Narrative Poetry & Haiku. Long, song-like narrative poetry is a perfect counterpart to the sometimes audacious sparkle of short poems like haiku.

Karen Carter and Freddy Niagara Fonseca will bring these two facets of poetry to life, reciting for you with musical accompaniment by Nathanael Zumstein on the viola on Saturday, March 31, 2007, 8:00 PM at Revelations upstairs, Fairfield, Iowa.

On the program are poems by Stanley Kunitz, Whitman, Frost, Poe, Robert Service, Freddy, Octavio Paz, Basho, Emily Dickinson, Vachel Lindsay and a host of haiku, some quite humorous. Everyone is invited.

PROGRAM

Cowboy blessings & haiku - Karen

Robert Service — The Shooting of Dan McGrew — Freddy

Seven haiku — Karen

Edgar Allan Poe — The Raven — Freddy

Nature poetry + three haiku — Karen

Stanley Kunitz — The Wellfleet Whale — Freddy

American poems + a few haiku — Karen

Walt Whitman — Song of the Open Road, excerpts — Freddy

Four short poems + haiku – Karen

Freddy Niagara Fonseca — The New York City Zoo — Freddy

March Madness etc + seven haiku — Karen