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Please plan to join us at Noon on April 28 and enjoy favorite poems read by your colleagues across campus!   On Tuesday, April 28, we’ll host our 17th Annual Poetry on the Patio – open and free to all – refreshments will be provided!

If you would like to take a peek at previous poetry readings you’ll find a recording of each event, a list of readers, what they read, and more!  If by chance the weather is too chilly or rainy, we will hold the poetry reading inside the library, Room 102.

April is National Poetry Month and we hope you will enjoy celebrating with us!   We begin as close to Noon as possible  – as soon as the carillon bells finish their singing!

Program for the 17th Annual Poetry on the Patio

Dan Gjelten:          Such Singing in the Wild Branches  by Mary Oliver

Beth Bergfield:     The Lake Isle of Innisfree   by W. B. Yeats

Lisa Thao:             Our Greatest Fear         by Marianne Williamson
                                       &  Phenomenal Woman    by Maya Angelou

David Penchansky:         Frenzy   by Anne Sexton
                                                   may my heart always be open    by e.e. cummings
                                                      i thank you God for most this amazing day    by e.e. cummings

Meg Wilkes Karraker:   The Starfish in an Instant   by Miriam Wilkes Karraker

Ann Klein:       The Blessed Virgin Compared to the Air We Breathe  by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Peter Breuch:                  selected poems  by Emily Wall

Amy Gage:                      Whatever Doesn’t Serve   by Danna Faulds
                                                 Wild Geese     by Mary Oliver

Martin Warren:            The Miller’s Tale (lines 678 – 713a)  by Geoffrey Chaucer
Merrie Davidson:         Break of Day in the Trenches          by Isaac Rosenberg

Michael Klein:               To the Fig Tree on 9th  and Christian  by Ross Gay

Hannah Tilstra:            Famous      by Naomi Shihab Nye