Jonathan Skinner and Annie Finch Reading / February 8, 2007
Event report
The poets Jonathan Skinner and Annie Finch read to an audience of approximately twenty-five people in a special evening event in the New Writing Series on February 8, 2007.
Skinner鈥檚 set included four poems from the title sequence of his book Political Cactus Poems, several pages of his chapbook-length collaborative poem with Jane Sprague, Entropic Liberties, and a substantial preview of his work in progress, 鈥淲etlands,鈥 including the long sequence on New Orleans called 鈥淎 Natural History of Levees.鈥
Finch recited a poem from Encyclopedia of Scotland from memory to start off her set, then read several poems from Eve, before settling in with numerous poems from Calendars. She also read from and discussed her translations from the French of Louise Lab茅. After the reading, the poets entertained questions from the audience. They spoke on topics including environmentalism, pagan spiritual practices, the relationship of meter to magic, ecological 鈥渆dge effects,鈥 the Troubadors, and bird song.
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