ITL #21 - Poetry Picnic

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Poetry Picnic
Saturday, August 2nd
2pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #20 - Rain or Shine, What We Heard

Gonzalo Plaza - "Couldn't Stand the Weather" by Stevie Rai Vaughn
Maithili Jha - "You Look Like Rain" by Morphine
Simeon Berry - "Community College in the Rain" from Actual Air by David Berman
heather hughes - "China Observed Through Greek Rain in Turkish Coffee" by Henrik Nordbrandt, translated by the author and Alexander Taylor; "Thread suns" by Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger; and "A Monsoon Day Fable" by Jayanta Mahapatra from The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry edited by J.D. McClatchy
Maithili Jha - excerpts from The Cloud Messenger by Kalidasa, translated by Arthur Ryder
Gina Hereen - excerpt from The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby, translated by Jeremy Leggatt
Dann Brown - excerpt from The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Gonzalo Plaza - 6 word stories by Robert Jordan and Howard Waldrop from Wired (2006)
Matt Hawthorne - excerpt from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Robyn Gesek - excerpt from The Shining by Steven King
Gina Hereen - excerpt from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
Maithili Jha - "Rain, Rapa Nui" by Pablo Neruda, translator not known
heather hughes - excerpt from snow by Maxence Fermine

ITL #20 - Rain or Shine

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Rain or Shine
Sunday, May 26th
3pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #19 - Missed Connection, What We Heard

Anya Miller - excerpt from Thea Stilton and the Mystery on the Orient Express
Dann Brown - missed connection text exchange with Liam
Jack Miller - "Absolutely Elsewhere" by Dorothy Sayers
Gina Hereen - excerpt from A Great Unrecorded History by Wendy Moffit
heather hughes & Dann Brown - "Sure Thing" from All in the Timing by David Ives
Bill Pierce - "Lament for the Makers" by William Dunbar
Jack Miller - "Things My Son Should Know After I've Died" by Brian Trimboli, "Nocturne with Cat and Spider" by Douglas Woody Woodsum, and "Death and Tacos" by Nathaniel Whittemore from Rattle (vol. 14, no. 1, Summer 2008)

ITL #19 - Missed Connection

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Missed Connection
Saturday, February 2nd
4pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #18 - Elements, What We Heard

Anya Miller - "Element" and "Catalyst" by Simon Basher and Dan Green from Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction
Christine Cooper - "Water" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
heather hughes - "Mineral Kingdom" by Jackques Dupin, translated by Paul Aster from The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry
Christine Cooper - "Water is thought by thirst" by Emily Dickinson
Kim Freeman - "Core" by Margaret Gibson
heather hughes - "Moh's Hardness Scale" by Erin Knight from Grain (Summer 2006)
Dann Brown - from "Timeus" by Plato
Kate Bush - "Albert the Great" from Opera Omnia translated by Kate
Jack Miller - from "The Wasteland" by T.S. Eliot (published and manuscript versions)
heather hughes - "The Return of the Rivers" and "Karma Repair Kit: Items 1-4" by Richard Brautigan from The Pill versus the Springfield Mine Disaster
Anya Miller - "The Periodic Table" and "Atom" and "Precipitate" by Simon Basher and Dan Green from Chemistry: Getting a Big Reaction

ITL #18 -

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Elements
Saturday, November 24th
4pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #17 - Poetry Picnic, What We Heard

Jack Miller - "How to Stop the Sun from Exploding" by Clive Bewilder from Indiana Review vol. 3
heather hughes - "Live and Let Die I - IV" by Jill McDonough from Oh, James!
Robyn Gesek - "The Geography of My Body" by Ishle Park from Slam
Gonzalo Plaza - "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Petaluma Vale - "Theogony" by Jean Gallagher from Start
Vivek Sharma - poems from Songs of Kabir by Kabir, translated by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; poems from The Conference of Birds by Farid Attar
heather hughes - "Creating a Map" by Marjorie Agosin from Carthographies; "Santiago Punk" by Carmen Berenguer from La gran hablada
Petaluma Vale - "Supermarket Historians" by Jay Leeming from Dynamite on a China Plate
Robyn Gesek - "The Quiet World" by Jeffry McDaniel from Slam
Vivek Sharma - "Calendar Starting with June" by Keki N. Daruwalla from Winter Poems
heather hughes - "Theory of Marriage" by Mark Doty from Fire to Fire
Jack Miller - "How to Lick a Blade" and "Man of the Family" by Kyle Dargan from Logorrhea Dementia
Petaluma Vale - "Exit with Moose" by Jay Leeming from Dynamite on a China Plate
Robyn Gesek - "The High Achievers" by Glyn Maxwell from The Boys at Twilight; "P.M." by Linda Pastan from Carnival Evening; "Portraits: Untitled Nebraska Poem" by Julie Yancy from The United States of Poetry
Vivek Sharma - "Suddenly the Tree" by Keki N. Daruwalla from Winter Poems
Petaluma Vale - "Lament of the Recording Engineer" by Jay Leeming from Dynamite on a China Plate

ITL # 17 - Poetry Picnic

The annual poetry picnic!!!

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Poetry Picnic
Sunday, August 26th
1:00p.m.

Imagined Therefore Limitless #16 - Fight or Flight, What We Heard

heather hughes - excerpt from Flight of Dragons by Peter Dickinson
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpts from "Send in the Clowns" from The Real Frank Zappa Book by Frank Zappa and Peter Occhiogrosso
Maithili Jha - "Pardon for John 'Galveston Giant' Johnson"
Dann Brown - excerpt from In the Beauty of the Lillies by John Updike
Jack Miller - excerpts from How to Archer by Sterling Archer
Maithili Jha - excerpt from Requiem for a Dream; excerpt from "A Poet's Advice" by e.e. cummings
Azu Rocha - excerpt from Blindness by Jose Saramago
heather hughes - "The Bird" by Ted Hughes

ITL #16 - Fight or Flight

Imagined Therefore Limitless can't decide: should I stay or should I go?

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Fight or Flight
Saturday, May 12, 2012
3:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #15 - Epistolary, What We Heard

Featuring our first ever Skype participant. Mad props to DB.

heather hughes - excerpt from Pamela by Samuel Richardson
Gina Heeren - excerpt from Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos
Lauren Couture - "Some albums I could not live without" from the blog Will You Love Me Tomorrow
heather hughes - "Men of Letters" from the blog Yet Another Band
Robyn Gesek - excerpt from The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
Dann Brown - "Letter to Horace Greeley" Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler; "Best Resignation Letter Ever" anonymous, from SoCalLawBlog.org; and "Rejection Rejection Letter" by Chris L. Jensen
heather hughes - 3 "Open Letters" from McSweeneys.net
Jack Miller - memo from Bill Saffire to Richard Nixon "In Event of Moon Disaster;" Mickey Mantle's reply letter to Bob Fishel, 1972; and Postal Regulation Section 526

ITL #15 - Epistolary

Imagined Therefore Limitless doesn't have a valentine. Perhaps you could send a love letter?

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Epistolary
Saturday, February 18, 2012
4:00 pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #14 - Fire & Ice, What We Heard

heather hughes - "The Imaginary Iceberg" and "Casabianca" by Elizabeth Bishop; Canto XXXIV from The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by Laurence Binyon
Jack Miller - "February" by Petaluma Vale; "Prometheus" by Lord Byron; "Bonfire" from Constellations (Vol I, Fall 2011) by Paul Lafreniere
heather hughes - Wed Mar 14 - end Mar from Diaries of the Terra Nova Expedition by Robert F. Scott excerpted in The South Pole: A Historical Reader edited by Anthony Brandt
Dann Brown - excerpts from The Game by Ken Dryden
Jack Miller - "Fire Safety and Prevention Tips" from The Onion
Gonzalo Plaza - excerpt from What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard P. Feyman
heather hughes - "Fire Is Not a Nice Guest" by Russell Edson
Robyn Gesek - Marlborough Street Fire photo by Stanley J. Forman (http://alt.tnt.tv/specials/moi/photo_boston.html)

ITL #14 - Fire & Ice

Imagined Therefore Limitless gets lots of songs stuck in the brain. You can thank Pat Benatar for this theme.

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Fire & Ice
Satday, December 3, 2011
3:00 pm