The Poetry of Trees Flowers & Forests

Trees, flowers & forests are the subject of the Candlelight Reading Series' upcoming poetry reading this Saturday, October 20, 2007 at Revelations, upstairs. We'll start at 8:00 PM.

“I never saw a discontented tree,” John Muir, the famous American preservationist, writer and founder of the Sierra Club wrote.

For many of us, trees, flowers and anything plant like seem to exist in some rather vague and remote place in our awareness, and we tend to take them entirely for granted. In reality, they have much to tell us. Freddy Niagara Fonseca, assisted by Deborah Roberts, Alexandra Ulmer and Rolf Erickson will recite some quite meaningful selections on the subject for you.

You will also hear the winner(s) of the poetry contest on Trees, Flowers & Forests for Fairfield writers.

The winners are Melinda Arndt and Raven Garland. Alexandra Ulmer canceled.

PROGRAM

FREDDY:

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—The Language of the Trees

ROLF:

Robert Frost—The Road Not Taken

David Wagoner—Lost

Rolf Erickson—Into the Woods

DEBORAH:

Robert Frost—Tree at My Window

A.E. Housman—Loveliest of Trees

Huang O— You Held My Lotus Blossom

FREDDY:

Walt Whitman—The First Dandelion

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—Giant Sequoia

ROLF:

Dorothy Walters—Don’t Make Lists

WINNER 1, MELINDA:

Melinda Arndt—Haiku

FREDDY:

Chang Yü—Spring Night

DEBORAH:

Alfred Joyce Kilmer—Trees

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—The Reaper and the Flowers

Mary Oliver—Sleeping in the Forest

ROLF:

Robert Frost—Into My Own

Gary Snyder—Pine Tree Tops

Robert Frost—A Late Walk

FREDDY:

William Cowper—The Poplar Field

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—Falling Tree Kills Sleeping Cub Scout

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—The Lovesick Anemone

WINNER 2, RAVEN:

Raven Garland—Oak and Ash and Thorn

ROLF:

Rolf Erickson—Trees

Walt Whitman—Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

DEBORAH:

Mary Oliver—The Flowers I Wanted to Bring You

Wendy Cope—Flowers

Elizabeth Barrett Browning—I Think of Thee!

FREDDY:

Tagore—Flower

ROLF:

Tagore—The Lotus

FREDDY:

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—The Quiet Way of Unforgotten Trees

Freddy Niagara Fonseca—To Eros

The 2007 Readings

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