Candlelight Reading Series’ 50th Poetry Reading:

May Madness in Poetry, or the Craziest Poems

We Could Find!

On Saturday, May 9, 2009 at 8:00 p.m., at Revelations, the Candlelight Reading Series will present its 50th poetry reading since its inception in December 2004: “May Madness in Poetry, Or the Craziest Poems We Could Find”, a selection of whacky, funny and actually also quite profound poems that will have you giggling and laughing out loud before you know it.

In the past four years, the series has presented a goodly number of the craziest poems ever written on planet Earth, along with many masterworks penned by most if not all of the greatest poets from all over the world and of all styles and periods.

This month’s readers are Raven Garland and Freddy Niagara Fonseca.  Please come on time.

PROGRAM

Someone — Walter de la Mare — RG

Loretta the Luminary — Marianne Stone — RG

Subtitle — Weldon Kees — FNF

Mushrooms — Sylvia Plath — FNF

Villanelle for Thel — Julie Kane — RG

Jabberwocky — Lewis Carroll — RG

Nights — Cyn. Zarco — FNF

Simon Legree — Vachel Lindsay — FNF

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf — Roald Dahl — DUET

Country Fair — Charles Simic — RG

The Silver Penny — Walter de la Mare — FNF

In Front of His Wife — Mirabai — RG

may i feel said he — e.e. cummings — DUET

Black Hole — Freddy Niagara Fonseca — FNF

ego tripping — Nikki Giovanni — RG

Undercurrent — Zyskandar Jaimot — FNF

Me Love Cookies — The Cookie Monster — RG

Overheard on a Saltmarsh — Harold Munro — DUET

The Lesson of the Moth — Don Marquis — RG

The Pig — Roald Dahl — FNF

In Hot Summer — Ezra Pound — RG

Psychotherapy — Melanie — RG

Bluebeard — Edna St Vincent Millay — FNF

The Tryst — John Banister Tabb — FNF

Divorce — Erica Jong — DUET

Murder in the Cathedral — T.S. Eliot — RG

Poetry Dances, Olé! — Freddy Niagara Fonseca — FNF

On the Inclusion of Miniature Dinosaurs in Breakfast — John Updike — FNF

It Was a Dream — Lucille Clifton — RG

The Gray Dress— Raven Garland — RG

The Sea-gull — Ogden Nash — FNF

Topography — Sharon Olds — FNF

The 2009 Readings

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