presented by the Cape Cod Writers’ Center SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 3 – 4:30 PM Brush Art Gallery and Studios Fifteen poets will read work reflecting historical and contemporary traditions contributing to a regional voice. Diverse voices of Native Americans and other native Cape Codders, new immigrants, and “wash ashore” poets will reveal a rich cultural identity [...]
“Cambodian Refugee Poetry”
Presented by Mr. Samkhann Khoeun SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 2:30 – 3:30 PM Pollard Memorial Library Join Mr. Samkhann Khoeun for a multimedia presentation and reading of Cambodian refugee poetry from the bilingual book whose original poems were handwritten in Khmer by the late Venerable Aggadiop Ly Van, a Cambodian Buddhist Monk who survived Cambodia’s holocaust [...]
Film Screening: “Lowell Blues – The Words of Jack Kerouac” (2000)”
With guest filmmaker Henry Ferrini FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 (also shows SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 – see schedule) 4:15 – 5:15 PM Lowell National Historical Park Visitors Center Theater “Lowell Blues” remembers the place Jack Kerouac could not forget. By fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, “Lowell Blues” illuminates Kerouac’s childhood holy [...]
POEM OF THE MOMENT:
by Frank Bidart
What none knows is when, not if.
Now that your life nears its end
when you turn back what you see
is ruin. You think, It is a prison. No,
it is a vast resonating chamber in
which each thing you say or do is
new, but the same. What none knows is...
Read the complete poem here.
Or hear Frank Bidart read Saturday afternoon at the festival in Salem.
Or study this poem as part of Common Threads--a National Poetry month celebration.
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Food for Festival Thought: Stephen Dunn and Frank Bidart (Sunday Poets) on PingPong and Hollywood
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- Stephen Dunn - Poets in Person - Episode 2
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- James Franco and Frank Bidart - mausoleum (clip 4)
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