Inside The Hearts' Walls

This is a hearty invitation to join us on Thursday, October 17 @ 1:00 - 2:20 NSH206 for a poetry reading by Danny Earl Simmons.  Dan is a local poet, a friend of the LBCC Poetry Club, and an active member of the Albany Civic Theater.  His poems have been published in a variety of presses including Big River Poetry Review, Grey Sparrow, Northwind, and Strong Verse.  This reading in part celebrates his new collection: Dancing the Allergic Swim.

Join us!  And please invite your students (if you'd like more info please contact me).  

Here's one of Dan's poems from Dancing:

Poet

He was always the kid who stayed up late

after marshmallows and scary stories.

He'd sit there for hours, entranced

by the deepest red of the campfire, 

soaking-in the heat.  He'd watch sparks

escape and turn into stars against the black 

mountain sky like red-hot secrets taking flight.

Before long, he'd find himself huddled

against the edge, eyes burning,

overcome by the heat of the moment,

focused on nothing but the wiggle of the flames

and the wavy hot glow of the smolder.

This is just a quick reminder of the PoetryWall at the LBCC Library. Our library is sponsoring the space (next to the Library Reading Room) and the materials (whiteboards and pens) and our Poetry Club is providing themes and recording and archiving your submissions.  What we need is YOU and your "gaiety of language."  Consider it poetry improv and bring your classes.  Or drop by yourself.  It's fun!!!  This week's theme: Curiosity....

Here's a little gem from e.e. cummings:

since feeling is first

who pays any attention 

to the syntax of things

will never wholly kiss you;

while Spring is in the world

my blood approve,

and kisses are a better fate

than wisdom

lady i swear by all flowers.  Don't cry

-- the best gesture of my brain is less than

your eyelids' flutter which says

we are for each other: then

laugh, leaning back in my arms

for life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis