Open Readings while sheltering in place

Our poets are finding ways to communicate since we are unable to hold open air readings yet. As they come in, I will add them to this page and update it. If you are a poet who wishes to have your work added to this page, send a link of yourself reading to editor(at)chollaneedles.com - replace the (at) with the symbol @. This keeps the robotic spam out of my email box. Thanks!

This page is continuing - - see menu at the right for the link to Part 2!

Lisa Mednick Powell performing 

"She's Holding Hands With Heaven"
"I was thinking about docs and nurses
and home care workers--and aides
like the ones who take care of my Mother
at her assisted living place in New York."

Romaine Washington reading "Empty Nest"

Kurt Schauppner reading "Haiku For Hope"

Greg Gilbert reading "No Curtain Calls, No Critics"

Susan Rukeyser reading 
"Black and Blue Babydoll Nightie (used)"

John Sierpinski reading "Pipe Dream"

M. T. Evans reading "Planned Obsolescence"

Cindy Rinne reading "Field Of Vision"

Bory Thach reading "Two Rivers"

Romaine Washington reading "Purgatory Has An Address"

Robert DeLoyd reading "Bee Poem"

L. I. Henley reading
"The Pig, The Book, The Chia, The Moon, and the Butterfly"
(music by Jonathan Maule)

Isabel Winson-Sagan reading "What We Wrote On Water"
(note - the silence at the beginning and interspersed is deliberate - music by Tim Brown)

Michael Lee Johnson reading "Vodka Omelet"

Susan Abbott reading "Now Voyaging"

Brian Beatty reading The Drowning Man

Joy Harjo reading Eagle Song

Lara Dolphin reads
"Things I Didn't Put On My Nursing Resumé"

Tim Robbins reading "This Hour"

John Brantingham reads Agenda

Tim Robbins reading "Gulf" and other poems

James Franco reading Howl by Allen Ginsburg

Michael Lee Johnson reading Daginne Aignende

daginne aignende - 2 poems
(music by r soos)

Words by Tony Moffeit * music & performance by r soos

Laurie Byro reads three poems

Brenda Littleton reads "Make It Matter"

Click here for Miriam Sagan's silent reading of "Old Lady Haiku"

r soos reads "Deep In My Bones"

Ruth Nolan - an hour long lecture on local literature

Oldie But Goodie!
If you made it this far,
a laugh is in order.