Poetry Celebration, Makin' Candy 4/19/05

Second annual National Poetry Month edition of Makin' Candy. This year, besides having poets read their work (denoted by quotation marks and "by"), some musical interludes have been built in.

• Rickover's Dream: Christopher Hedges
  
• "Logan Heights and the World" by Juan Felipe Herrera
  
• "The Fine Printing on a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer" by Adrian Louis
  
• Levee Camp Blues: Fred McDowell
  
• "Dear John, Dear Coltrane" by Michael S. Harper
  
• "I Was Stolen by the Gypsies" by Charles Simic
  
• "Lester Leaps In" by Al Young
  
• "Prayer" by Joseph Bruchac
  
• Jersey Bounce: Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
  
• "The Tent People of Beverley Hills" by James Ragan
  
• "Parsley" by Rita Dove
  
• The Losing End (You're On): Neil Young
  
• "Wild Gratitude" by Edward Hirsch
  
• "Waltz for Ma" by Johnny Griffin
  
• "My Sisters, O My Sisters" by May Sarton
  
• "Crossing Over" by William Meredith
  
• See Hunt & Liddy: Philip Woods Quartet
  
• "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot
  
• Driving Wheel: Robert Lockwood, Jr.
  
• "So & So Reclining on Her Couch" by Wallace Stevens
  
• "Birches" by Robert Frost
  
• "Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" by Ogden Nash
  
• Poor Boy: Howlin' Wolf
  
• "The River Bees" by W.S. Merwin
  
• "Diving Into the Wreck" by Adrienne Rich
  
• "The Song of the Taste" by Gary Snyder
  
• "Learning About Easter & Passover" by Dan Jaffe
  
• Canada Geese: David & Mary Ellen Monroe
  
• "Tia Sophia" by Carmen Tafolla
  
• "Uh Oh Plutonium" by Anne Waldman
  
• Espana: Mantovani & His Orchestra
  
• "America" by Allen Ginsberg
  

yeah, the Ginsberg is my Favorite!!