Cleve-Land

Comments (8)

• On September 21, 2009 at 6:43 am Joel Brouwer wrote:

  That’s massive all right. I wonder if she’s writing new poems as she drives from place to place. Because who could stand to hear themselves read the same poem fifty nights in a row?! I’d totally start heckling myself around day five.

• On September 22, 2009 at 11:06 am Janet wrote:

  I toured with her when she was promoting her last book; she continually writes & evolves. And she doesn’t do the same reading every night.

• On September 21, 2009 at 7:18 am Eric wrote:

  I heard Greenstreet read one time, and although I thought her poems were very interesting I didn’t think she was very good as a reader. She read too shyly and quietly and it was heard to hear her. I have a copy of her book Case Sensitive though and I really like it. Looking forward to getting her new book soon.

• On September 21, 2009 at 8:53 am Rebecca Wolff wrote:

  Well I guess to each his own, vis a vis reading styles, but I wonder if she’s evolved quite a bit as a reader since you heard her, as I would not say that she comes across as shy or quiet now. Rather introverted in the most extro manner I’ve ever seen.

• On September 21, 2009 at 7:47 am Incognito wrote:

  Wow, that is impressive.

• On September 21, 2009 at 10:00 am John Oliver Simon wrote:

  Cleveland, forever haunted by the poetic genius and martyrdom of d.a. levy (1942-1968):

  i thought they were
  wind chimes
  in the streets at night

  with my young eyes
  i looked to the east
  and the distant ringing
  of ghost ponies
  rose from the ground

  Ponies Ponies Ponies

  (the young horse becomes
  a funny sounding
  word)

  i looked to the east
  seeking buddhas to
  justify those bells
  weeping in the darkness

  The Underground Horses
  are rising

  Cherokee, Delaware, Huron
  we will return your land to you

  the young horses
  will return your land to you

  to purify the land
  with their tears

  The Underground Horses
  are rising
  to tell their fathers

  “in the streets at night
  the bells of Cherokee ponies
  are weeping.”

• On September 21, 2009 at 10:46 am EricD wrote:

  Richard Howard was a Cleveland guy, right? And Franz Wright has got a book on Cleveland Poets Series. Is he Cleveland?

• On September 21, 2009 at 11:56 am Tom Harr wrote:

  Bill Knott comments on the “impressive” number of readings she gives:

  http://knottprosepo.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-is-impressive-httpwww.html