The Poets Weave is a weekly five-minute program of poetry reading hosted by local poets Jenny Kander and Christopher Citro. The Poets Weave airs Sundays at 11:46 a.m. on WFIU HD1.
On this extended web edition of The Poets Weave, Alyce Miller reads from the series “The Pacific is a Woman Just Like Me,” as well as the poems “Gift,” “On Finding A Legless Doll at the Beach Called Park Facing Southeast California,” “Heirlooms,” and “Sisters to the Bone.”
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Magda Sokolowski is currently an MFA poetry student at Indiana University. She was the 2009 recipient of the Creative in Kathmandu Fellowship to study and write in Nepal. On this edition of The Poets Weave, she reads her poems “Dreamscape,” “On the Empire Builders,” “Implements,” and “Saturday Reversal.”
Christopher Smart was incarcerated from 1756 to 1763 for a form of religious madness that compelled him to pray constantly, often in the street. During this confinement for religious mania, he wrote the long poem Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) from which our poem today is taken.
Alyce Miller has published more than 150 poems, stories, and essays in magazines and journals. A transplant from the San Francisco Bay Area, she leads a double life in Bloomington, Indiana, as a English professor, and as a pro bono attorney specializing in animal rights law.
Poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay personified the life of a liberated, bohemian poet in Greenwich Village in the 1920s. On this edition of The Poets Weave, host Christopher Citro reads love poems from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s 1920 A Few Figs from Thistles.
Steve reads his poems “Un monstruo oscuro encima de una gente clara” (“A dark monster on top of pale people”) and “Country folk in tune with the times” on this edition of The Poets Weave.
In the wake of recent earthquakes in Haiti and the subsequent relief efforts, we are dedicating these programs to the victims and survivors of this tragedy, presenting poems by two American writers of Haitian descent: Nadine Pinède and Danielle Legros Georges.
Jenny Kander
A native of South Africa, Jenny came to Bloomington in 1992, where she is an active member of the local poetry scene. Read More »
Christopher Citro
Originally from Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Christopher is Associate Editor of Lyric Poetry Review and a student at Indiana University. Read More »
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