Poems/Poets performed:
Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins
I am drunk with love of thee by Rumi
excerpts from Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe, Hamlet by William Shakespeare, St
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
The Fall by Russell Edson
excerpts from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot, Sunday Morning by Wallace Stevens, In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Brass Spittoons by Langston Hughes
Dinner Guest: Me by Langston Hughes
Harlem [Dream Deferred] by Langston Hughes
excerpt from HOWL by Allen Ginsberg
excerpt from I AM WAITING by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Monday in B-Flat by Imamu Amiri Baraka
No Knock by Gil Scott-Heron
Seduction by Nikki Giovanni
Ka `Ba by Imamu Amiri Baraka
Jamesian by Thom Gunn
That Day by Nikki Giovanni
i like my body when it is with your... by e.e. cummings
Buying the Whore by Anne Sexton
Grammerotics by Nick Carbo
Speech Impediments by Nick Carbo
Now That I Am Forever with Child by Audre Lorde
“Good Writing Makes Me Cry” by Lorna Dee Cervantes
The Twins by Charles Bukowski
As If These Toes by Jennifer Futernick
The Hug by Thom Gunn
Sonnet 13 by John Berryman
The J Car by Thom Gunn
San Francisco Scene by Jack Kerouac
Poetry as Insurgent Art [I am signaling you through the flames] by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway by Gregory Corso
How the Sestina (Yawn) Works BY ANNE WALDMAN
L. Beethoven, Half-Back by Charles Bukowski
Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow by Robert Duncan
A RENT TRACT FOR LEW WELCH by David Meltzer
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Breakdown of Scenes:
Act I (around an hour)
Scene i: let me see your shadow
Scene ii Love Poems
Scene iii: Beats and Beyond
Act II (around an hour)
Scene i: Oakland Poetry Slam or Poetry Readings
Scene ii: Stories from the Men
Scene iii: Stories from the Women
Cast:
Chorus 1: Shaye Angelo Acevedo
Chorus 2: Gloria McDonald
Chorus 3: Melvign Badiola/Rotimi Agbabiaka
Chorus 4: Valerie Fachman
Chorus 5: Carina Lastimosa Salazar
Chorus 6: Geo Epsilanty
Chorus 7: Gino Rose
Chorus 8: Nazelah Jamison
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Letter to Logan from Milltown by Richard Hugo
I Thought of Ships, of Armies Hanging On by Charles Bukowski
Evolved People by Gary Soto
Philosophy Lesson by Philip Levine
The Journey by Mary Oliver
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Skin by Lucia Perillo
She Never Really Loved You by Nazelah Jamison
Joy Road and Livernois by Marge Piercy
Cigarettes by B.H. Fairchild