Sonnets at Revelations

Attention poetry and literature lovers: the Candlelight Reading Series presents a lyrical and passionate program of sonnets on Saturday, April 18, 2009, 8:00 p.m. at Revelations.

The sonnet form originated in Italy in the 13th century and over time spread to other countries to develop particularly in England.  There are many types of sonnets.  The main ones are the Italian or Petrarchan, Spenserian, Shakespearean and American sonnets, each showing particular characteristics.

The readers, Kirti Wood, Raven Garland, and Freddy Niagara Fonseca have selected a fine collection from the bonanza of sonnets in world poetry.  Special guest Terry Bauer will give a brief intro on the history of the sonnet. Please come on time.

PROGRAM

I Will Put Chaos Into Fourteen Lines — Edna St Vincent Millay — FNF

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge — William Wordsworth — FNF

Bluebeard — Edna St Vincent Millay — FNF

Breathe, you Invisible Poem — Rilke — KW

Hail to the Spirit — Rilke — KW

i thank you God — E.E. Cummings — RG

When, in Disgrace with Fortune — William Shakespeare — RG

I am in Need of Music — Elizabeth Bishop — RG

Statue of an Enraged Lion — Freddy Niagara Fonseca — FNF

Gli Occhi Di Chi’ Io Parlai — Francesco Petrarca — FNF

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day — William Shakespeare — FNF

When Day Upon Weary Day It Rains — John Barlas — KW

A God Can Do It — Rilke — KW

Why Do I Love the Silence of the Moon — John Barlas — KW

Batter My Heart — John Donne — RG

Choice Soul — Michelangelo — RG

Or puoi la quantitate — Christina Rossetti — RG

Piazza Piece — John Crowe Ransom — DUET: RG & FNF

A Tree Ascended There — Rilke — KW

Erect No Monument — Rilke — KW

6 — Hayden Carruth — DUET: RG & FNF

On a Night of Snow — Elizabeth Coatsworth — FNF

We See Each Living Thing Finally Die — Louise Labé — FNF

Mirage — R.P. Blackmur — FNF

How Do I Love Thee — Elizabeth Barrett Browning — RG

At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners Blow — John Donne — RG

When I Die — Pablo Neruda — RG

Now I Remember You — Rilke — KW

But You, Divine — Rilke — KW

Lone Standing by the Forest’s Verge — John Barlas — KW

The Soldier — Rubert Brooke — FNF

Evening on Calais Beach — William Wordsworth — FNF

I Know My Soul — Claude McKay — FNF

What My Lips Have Kissed — Edna St Vincent Millay — RG

Quam Metui Moritura — Edward Rowland Sill — RG

God’s World — Edna St Vincent Millay — RG

America — Claude McKay — FNF

Nature — Henry Longfellow — FNF

The New Colossus — Emma Lazarus — RG

The 2009 Readings

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