This week Sebastian and I rushed back from a fine reading at the Flood Gallery by our own sometime co-host Glenis Redmond, A. Van Jordan, and Juilian Vorus to talk with poet Steve Godwin. Fortunately, Steve had also been at the reading and could share his impressions of it, as well as some recent work. Sebastian read from Jordan’s new Quantum Lyrics.
Two weeks ago I took some time off to visit my son in Chapel Hill – and, of course, book addict that I am, hit a couple of used book stores, including the great The Bookshop on Franklin Street. There I found some early books by the sage of Scaly Mountain, Jonathan Williams, including his Amen Huzzah Selah, which collected very early work from the period when he was a student of Charles Olson’s at Black Mountain College. From it I read “The Anchorite”, a poem that’s held up well enough through the years to have been included in 2005′s Jubilant Thicket, a selection of poems from his whole career. We had a little time, so I also read a poem of HD, her musical take on Sappho’s Fragment #113, neither honey nor bee for me …
Enjoy. And read a poem this week.
(Cross-posted at the WordPlay blog.)
