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4 Courses

We'll feed your stomach and your mind with four  readings paired with four small courses.The evening begins with Langdon Cook reading a short chapter about oysters from his book, "Fat of the Land." Martha Silano reads poems about cabbage, gravy, Italian food, apples, blackberries, sausage, pizza, arugula and other foods. Kevin Craft delights us with

Poetry Rocks!

Jose Bold, Sara Edwards, Goldfinch and Jason Dodson of the Maldives take their favorite poems to the natural next step: turning them into songs.Expect to hear poems from Wallace Stevens, Dean Young, Walt Whitman, Yeats, Keats, Dorothy Parker, Theodore Roethke and more translated into musical beauty. (There are rumors that  Jose Bold may riff on

What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Understanding?

Nuclear disaster, oil spills, global warming—these are no longer plots of sci-fi films and apocalyptic literature, but real threats that our world faces as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation become more and more prevalent.Doctor and Copper Canyon Press poet Peter Pereira; Kathleen Flenniken, a former civil engineer and author of "Plume," a collection