Chris Holdhusen's house
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For our spring banter, we have some pleasant reading of three poetry selections: Walt Whitman's "This Compost," Elizabeth Bishop's "The Moose," and Richard Wilbur's "Two Voices in a Meadow." You can access these online by clicking on each title's embedded hyperlink, or find them in book format.
If you'd like to prep beyond the poems themselves, perhaps dive into some biographical reading for each of the above poets, and/or critical scholarship of these well-worn, well-loved poems. Hearing Paul Muldoon discuss Bishop's "The Moose" with Nick Laird on NYorker Poetry Podcast is incredibly lovely, for instance; consider hearing it in Laird's northern Irish accent for the first time vs. an initial readthrough in your head/voice: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/nick-laird-reads-elizabeth-bishop. The same is true of Wilbur's poem, which is also one featured on the NYorker Poetry Podcast in the past: https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/poetry/stephen-mitchell-reads-richard-wilbur I am less familiar with "This Compost" but found some commentary on it as an exemplar of ecopoetics as well as some more general summative analysis of its themes (click hyperlinked text in this sentence if interested).
Bring appetizers, dessert, drinks to share at Chris' house.
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