The 2006 and 11th Biennial
Waterloo Village, Stanhope, New Jersey.
September 28 – October 1, 2006
Part Three
Poetry In The Woods
Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of England was
the featured reader at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival on Saturday in
Stanhope, N.J.
Motion's poem LEARNING TO FISH consisted entirely of the names of fishing
lures. He said he no longer had children, but 'expensive adult dependents,'
who, alas were not much interested in fly fishing.
In FROM THE BALCONY Motion described his visit to Sicily and the constant
reminder of the island's active volcano Mt. Etna.
Motion closed with "poems written recently about my father who died earlier
this year," UNDERGROUND and WISH LIST.
Nearly as far away from the Main Stage as you could be and yet remain on
the Waterloo Village grounds, Festival Poets
Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey and
David Tucker read their work in the Braw
Pond Tent.
Natasha Trethewey has a voice like a warm
woolen scarf. You could almost hear her reading a grocery list and finding
the beauty in the words "Corn Flakes." However her verse is nowhere near the
supermarket variety.
Trethewey read GRAVEYARD BLUES, MYTH, SOUTHERN GOTHIC, INCIDENT, MONUMENT
and SOUTH.
Born in 1966, Trethewey told of her parents going to Cincinnati to marry
because it was against the law for them to marry in Mississippi under the
misogyny laws.
"Natasha (in) Russian means Christmas child - even in Mississippi," she
said.
IN THE BLOOD - Andrew Motion
NATIVE GUARD: POEMS - Natasha Trethewey
AMERICAN SUBLIME - Elizabeth Alexander
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Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
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