9 July

On this show I read the poems of Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, and Ander Monson. Some of the poems read were:

Robert Frost
Into My Own
Acquainted with the Night
Sitting by a Bush in Broad Sunlight

Theodore Roethke
I Knew a Woman
Journey to the Interior
My Papa's Waltz

Ander Monson
Salt
Vacationland
Proposed Self-Elegy with Torque

I read from Theodore Roethke's The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. The Frost selections were provided by Frost, Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays. Winer of the Yupelo Press Editor's Prize in Poetry, Vacationland is where you can find Ander Monson's work.

Into My Own
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.

I should not be withheld but that some day
Into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.

I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if I still held them dear.

They would not find me changed from him they knew-
Only more sure of all I thought was true.

-Robert Frost