Poetry Reading Tuesday Evening at Naropa

7:30 - 10pm Faculty Reading
Thalia Field, Ross Gay, Joanne Kyger, Linh Dinh, Bobbie Louise Hawkins
What a wonderful evening of many styles of poetry. I have a recording hopefully I can get it on here somehow.

The day was filled with our work shop in the morning after Meditation time. We were challenged after reading part of Sor juana ines de l Cruz's "First I Dream" and then Federico Garcia Lorca's "Cry to Rome (From the Tower of the Chrysler Building)" to write a rave and a rant. Not hard for me, I seem to be ranking all the time now, ha!

Lorca" Poet in NY is a powerful one, written in the year he spent in NYC at the beginning of the crash.

The Panel was good again
1-2:30pm Panel: Ethos of Culture in Prose
Laird Hunt (chair), Stephen Graham Jones, Jaime Manrique, Thalia Field, Bhanu Kapil

some real give and take around the issue of culture, race, poverty, I felt my teacher ws excellent when talking about his journey as a gay South American writer.

3-4pm Lecture by Joanne Kyger was good. She walked through the history of Buddhism and ended with its influence and presence in Poetry, at least in America. The gift of this event was it was given by one of the people who lived through pre Beat, Beat and up to today. She gave a powerful reading last night as well.

4:15-5:15pm Prose Chat with Jaime Manrique
This was fun to hear how he writes, thinks about writing and his life and activism. These are the sessions that leave many gifts in your bag and heart. Disciple, five years on a novel, writing everyday, and a freedom in writing poetry. When asked when he was the most relaxed, he answered "writing poetry". I look forward to his reading later this week. I hope to read for five minutes on Friday.

More today (Wed), not as heavy a schedule. Peace ko shin