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Celebrating National Poetry Month 2021

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Celebrating National Poetry Month 2021

From top left to right, clockwise:  Marie Howe, Mark Doty, Richard Blanco, Campbell McGrath, Denis Duhamel. Photos & Design: Raymond Elman.  Photo of Denise Duhamel by Amira Hadla.

 

To celebrate National Poetry Month 2021 and the O, Miami Poetry Festival 2021, ArtSpeak has mashed together video recorded poetry readings by notable poets Campbell McGrath, Marie Howe, Richard Blanco, Denise Duhamel, and Mark Doty.

For more information about O, Miami and National Poetry Month activities, check out the following websites:

O, Miami Poetry Festival

The Betsy Hotel

The videos below are organized by poet and run between 44 seconds and 4 minutes. Tap on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

CAMPBELL MCGRATH: 4:08 min.




From XX:  Poems for the Twentieth Century.  Picasso, 1973.

 


MARIE HOWE:  0:44 sec.




From Magdalene.  Magdalene at the Theopoetics Conference.

 

 

RICHARD BLANCO: 1:48 min.




From Looking for the Gulf Motel.  Sitting on My Mother’s Porch in Westchester, Florida.

 

 

DENISE DUHAMEL:  2:31 min.




From Scald:  On the Occasion of Typing My First Email on a Brand-New Phone

 

 

MARK DOTY:  3:53 min.




From Deep Lane.  Deep Lane (Into Eden . . .)

 

 

Five Poets

Poets (clockwise): Ashley M. Jones, Yaddyra Peralta, Nick Vagnoni (by Gesi Schilling), Cherry Pickman, Ricardo Pau-Llaso (by Liam Crotty).

 

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

 

Cherry Pickman

 

Yaddyra Peralta

 

Ashley M. Jones

 

Nick Vagnoni

 

Five More Poets

From top left, clockwise: Ellene Glenn Moore, Steven Karl, Caroline Cabrera, Ariel Francisco, Zain Aslam.

 

Caroline Cabrera

 

Ariel Francisco

 

Steven Karl

 

Zain Aslam

 

Ellene Glenn Moore