Imagined Therefore Limitless #23 - Poetry Picnic, What We Heard

heather hughes - "God Is An American" & "Fish head for Katrina" from Lighthead by Terrence Hayes
Simeon Berry - "Facts" by Phillip Levine
David Aquilina - "I Cannot Go to School Today" & "Orchestra" from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
heather hughes - "Anchorage" from She Had Some Horses by Joy Harjo
Petaluma Vale - "Two Sermons" & "Show Me" from Stubborn by Jean Gallagher
Simeon Berry - "Now Winter Nights" by Robert Hass
Dann Brown - excerpt from "Acharnians" by Aristophanes
Jack Miller - "Mostly Nothing Happens" by William Ehrhart
heather hughes - "Qu'on Arrive Enfin" from Histories by Brenda Marie Osbey
David Aquilina - "Smart" & "Hector the Collector" from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
Simeon Berry - "Circe in Love" & "Circe Revisited" by Nicholas Christopher
Petaluma Vale - "Circe" from Dynamite on a China Plate by Jay Leeming
heather hughes - "Reflection on a Foreign Line of Verse" by Georg Seferis
Dann Brown - Book 1, Satire 4 excerpt from Satires by Horace
Petaluma Vale - "The Barber" from Dynamite on a China Plate by Jay Leeming
heather hughes - "Crab-Angel" from The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy
Petaluma Vale - "Jazz for the Widow of Ice Cream" from Dynamite on a China Plate by Jay Leeming
Simeon Berry - Two Asbo Limmericks
Jack Miller - "Striptease" by MIriam Johnson

ITL #23 - Poetry Picnic

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Poetry Picnic
Saturday, September 20th
2pm

Imagined Therefore Limitless #22 - Beast/Burden, What We Heard

Petaluma Vale - "How the Turtle got its Shell" (Greece) from Stories from Around the World
David Aquilina - "O I'm Being Eaten by a Boa Constrictor" & "The Dragon of Grindley Grun" by Shel Silverstein
heather hughes - "Burial" & "To a Snake" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Simeon Berry - excerpt from Idoro by william Gibson
Anya Miller - excerpt from Dewey by Vicki Myron
Petaluma Vale - selections from Name Your Pet! by Dr. Rob Miller
Dann Brown - excerpt from Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne
heather hughes - "The Prairie" from Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Kate Bush - "Crocodile" from The Book of Beasts translated by T.H. White
David Aquilina - "Bear in There" by Shel Silverstein
Jack Miller - "The Leopard Lady" by Dorothy L. Sayer
Anya Miller - excerpt from Thea Stilton and the Ice Treasure
Kate Bush - "Hedgehog" from The Book of Beasts translated by T.H. White
Petaluma Vale - "Hans Hedgehog" from Brothers Grimm
Simeon Berry - "The Tutelary Forest" from The Room Where I Was Born by Brian Teare
Dann Brown - excerpt from Histories by Herodotus
Kate Bush - "Phoenix" from The Book of Beasts translated by T.H. White
heather hughes - "El burro es un animal" from Gulf Music by Robert Pinsky

ITL #22 - Beast/Burden

Imagined Therefore Limitless Readers' Series
Beast/Burden
Saturday, February 22nd
5pm

ITL collaborative audio book project

As you may know, ITL was born so things could be read aloud to others. Reading events are, by necessity, generally limited to short pieces or excerpts. But we dream bigger.

Over the next several months, ITL will be asking folks to record themselves reading short chapters from a novel with Favorite Book Status. Why? Because it will be fun.

It will go a little something like this:

Margaret


Comment here or visit the facebook page & drop a note if you would like to participate!

Imagined Therefore Limitless #21 - Poetry Picnic, What We Heard

Robyn Gesek - "Be the Unicorn of Your Neighborhood" by Janaka Stuckey
heather hughes - "Mapurbe" by David Aniñir
Adriana Cloud - "Poem in which I Make the Mistake of Comparing Billie Holiday to a Washerwoman" by Tony Hoagland
Jack Miller - "Rant" by Helena Nelson
Petaluma Vale - "Phsychology Today" by Darnell Arnoult
heather hughes - "Do Not Put Dead Monkeys in the Freezer" and "The Fugitive Poets of Fenway Park" by Martín Espada
Anya Miller - "Food Hates You Too" by Robert Weinstock
Petaluma Vale - "God Says Yes to Me" by Kaylin Haught
Jack Miller - "Nashvillanelle" by Dan Bellm
Robyn Gesek - "Waiting for the Messiah in Somerville, MA" by Naomi Feigelson Chase
Dann Brown - "Grave of Shelley," "Keats," & "Apologia" by Oscar Wilde
Robyn Gesek - from "The Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan & "Diffraction" by Diane Ackerman
Petaluma Vale - "In Spite of Everything, the Stars" by Edward Hirsch
Jack Miller - "Recent Images of Mars" by Matthew Sissom

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.