Love & Erotic Poetry, Friday, February 13, 2009, 8:00 p.m., Revelations.  This reading was held over on February 20 because of the sudden snowstorm.

Continuing a yearly tradition, the Candlelight Reading Series presents a love poetry reading when Valentine’s Day comes around.  Come enjoy this year’s “Love & Erotic Poetry” presentation on Friday, February 13, 8:00 p.m. at Revelations, upstairs.

As always, the series offers the best it can find in world poetry from all cultures and all periods and styles.  Each reading is extensively researched and well rehearsed, offering great opportunities to insightful and spontaneous interpretation making the spoken word vibrantly alive.

The readers are Libbett Rich, Kirti Wood, Michael Sternfeld and Freddy Niagara Fonseca.  They've selected witty and profound poetry on the reading’s subject.  Admission  is free.  Please arrive on time.  You don't want to miss any of this fascinating variety of Valentine's day poetry.

PROGRAM

Sunstone (excerpt) — Octavio Paz — FNF

Hurry Love — Libbett Rich — LR

Your Face - The Essence of Dignity — Libbett Rich — LR

A Language I Cannot Speak Without You — Zen Oleary — KW

Nothing — Julia de Burgos — KW

To Women, as Far as I’m Concerned — D.H. Lawrence — MS

What Should I Tell the Other Girls — Mira — MS

Keep Doing That — Mira — MS

Love — George Herbert — FNF & LR DUET

Friends — Traditional — FNF

At Last Love Has Come — Sulpicia — KW

The Circle Around the Zero — Rumi — MS

To a Pair of Legs — Francisco de Terrazas — FNF

Milk Smoothens My Insides — Libbett Rich — LR

A White Veil Whirling — Libbett Rich — LR

I Lie Down — Libbett Rich — LR

Entering Rest — Gunilla Norris — KW

Wake Up! — Kirti Wood — KW

Sonnet 110 — William Shakespeare — FNF

Topography — Sharon Olds — FNF

He Carries a Sword in One Hand — Tagore — LR

Quatrains — Rumi — MS

Secret — Hafez — MS

May I Feel Said He — E.E. Cummings – MS & LR DUET

The Turtle — Ogden Nash — FNF

Devotion — Robert Frost — FNF

Touch — Octavio Paz — FNF

Remember When? — Kirti Wood — KW

I Saw Him — Kirti Wood — KW

Who Wrote All the Music — Hafez — MS

Freedom Through Ascetic Renunciation — Tagore — LR

What’s That Which Good Housewives Take Delight — Anon. — FNF

They Unite Naked — Jorge Gaitan Duran — MS

The Primal Passions — D.H. Lawrence — MS

Skinny Dipping for the First Time — Libbett Rich — LR

Is This the End, Beloved? — Tagore — LR

How Can I Think — Libbett Rich — LR

City, Woman, Presence — Octavio Paz — FNF

Unending Love — Tagore — FNF & KW DUET

Ottumwa Courier, February 14, 2009

The 2009 Readings

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