Poetry Reading Live
Robert Ricardo Reese has published poetry in Blackbird, Drunken Boat, Poems Against War, Santa Clara Review, Poecology, Monterey Journal, and in other journals. He is a Cave Canem Fellow and a graduate of the M.F.A. program at San Francisco State University, and he has taught poetry as a Writer-in-Residence at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts.
Saul Williams Spits "Burundi"
The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
The Creation by James Weldon Johnson
when you have forgotten Sunday: the love story by Gwendolyn Brooks
A Sunset of the city by Gwendolyn Brooks
For My People by Margaret Walker
Old Lem by Sterling Brown
The Unknown Citizen by W. H. Auden
Funeral Blues by W.H. Auden
As I Walked Out One Evening by W.H. Auden
Lovesong by Ted Hughes
Ralph Fiennes reads Nabokov’s ‘University Poem’
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Like This by Rumi
To A Stranger by Walt Whitman
Meryl Streep reads In Vain by Emily Dickinson
Allen Ginsberg reads Howl (Remixed)