stanley
plumley
ivy alvarez
pier paolo pasolini
alison fell
faiz
ahmed faiz
ono no komachi
cornelius eady
galway kinnell
william
carlos williams
lucille clifton
ishikawa takuboku
william kloefkorn
vassar
miller
yehuda halevi
salvatore quasimodo
ed dorn
andre
codrescu
june jordan
nazim hikmet
d. j. enright
randall
jarrell
lawrence ferlinghetti
alicia suskin ostriker
kate light
Such words!
I am entertained and delighted. I love reading this aloud.
Oh good! I thought about posting my own audio version, but decided it would be better if I left it up to y’all to read out loud.
Hope you’re having a good time at SxSW! (Austin is always a good time, I have to think, as long as one stays a prudent distance away from the state capitol.)
I’m curious as to why you picked these certain authors…the sound of the names only?
Yep, just that. (Same reason I didn’t capitalize the names – I wanted to fucus attention on the sounds.)
I heard that! ;-) And I think you meant to spell ficus.
Oh, fig! I don’t know what it is with my and typos today.
What, no Hayden Corruth?
I forgot abut Hayden Carruth! And he’s on my bookshelf, too (Collected Shorter Poems).