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Poetry Reading: The Miner’s Pale Children
May 1, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Davis Poet Laureate James Lee Jobe offers free poetry readings live online at facebook.com/jamesleejobe. Tonight’s features the book The Miner’s Pale Children, by the late Poet Laureate Emeritus of The United States, W.S. Merwin.
The Miner’s Pale Children has been called both prose-poems and poetic prose. Even the poet said he wasn’t sure which was correct. Either way, these short pieces of writing are beautiful and moving.
Previous readings have featured poetry by Rumi, Kabir, Mirabai, Pos Moua, Yang Jian, Han Shan, Miyazawa Kenji, Ocean Voung, Frederico Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda.
After each reading is over, a video is created and remains at that same web address.
Jobe also maintains a free blog for community members’ poems at http://yolocountypoems.blogspot.com. Email work to jamesleejobe@gmail.com—and bear in mind that this site is child-friendly.
