Wendy Vardaman recites "Blessing the Boats" by Lucille Clifton
Blessing the Boats
The Poet Laureate plays a crucial role in keeping the arts accessible and vital to all age groups, and acts as a statewide emissary for poetry and creativity.
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- Sara Ceballos recites "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams.
- Danny Ceballos recites "Untitled" by Lorine Niedecker.
- Victoria Konnova recites "The Giraffe" by Nikolay Gumilyov.
- Linda Kroll recites "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas.
- Meredith Mason recites "Bedtime Story" by Charles Wright.
- Lynn Kuhns recites "Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney.
- Janet Wullner-Faiss recites "The Laughing Thrush" by W. S. Merwin.
- Jesse Elmer recites "Jamaican Song" by James Berry.
- Sherry Elmer recites "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Kimberly Blaeser recites "Eagle Poem" by Joy Harjo.
- Andrew McSorley recites "Mt. Pisgah" by James Kimbrell.
- Art Malcom recites "The Boxer" by Paul Simon.
- Sarah Gilbert recites "Lake Isle of Innisfree" by WB Yeats.
- Nathan Reid recites "Pancakes" by Anis Mojani.
- Claire Hoy recites "Shiloh" by Herman Melville.
- Emily Bowles recites "I Never Saw a Moor" by Emily Dickinson.
- Kathryn Gahl recites "House of the Rising" by Samantha Thornhill.
- Melissa Range recites "The Last Quatrain of the Ballad of Emmett Till" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Austin Segrest recites "Poem" by Elizabeth Bishop.
- Catheryn Cofell recites "The Thing Is" by Ellen Bass.
- Lucy Rose John recites "Plato Told" by e.e. cummings.
- Kimberly Blaeser recites "Apprenticed to Justice."
- Alessandra Simmons recites "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
- Shannae Aurora Martinez recites "Frente al Balance, Manana" by Otto Rene Castillo.
- Sam Pekarske recites "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks.
- Ed Makowski recites James Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota."
- Margaret Rozga recites "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop.
- Tobias Wray recites "I Dwell In The Possibility" by Emily Dickinson & "Blessing The Boats" by Lucille Clifton.
- Franklin K R Cline recites "The Trees" by Philip Larkin.
- Chuck Stebelton recites William Blake's "The Echoing Green" and Rod Smith's "We Work Too Hard..."
- Kimberly Blaeser recites a translation of "A Great Wagaon" by Rumi.
- Bruce Dethlefsen recites "Remember" by Christina Rossetti & "The Last Rose of Summer" by Thomas Moore.
- Phillip Kassner recites Matt Cook and more.
- Destinny Fletcher recites "American History" by Micheal S. Harper.
- Soham Patel recites from "Shadow Mountain" by Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan.
- Ed Bloch recites "Money" by Barnaby Googe
- Margaret Hesse recites "The Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman.
- Lewy Olfson recites "Parting," by Emily Dickinson.
- Dorothy Kent recites "Another Intimation for Amy" by Kimberly Blaeser.
- Sylvia Kavanaugh recites "Communion," by Louise Erdrich.
- Carrie McGhee recites "An Evening Song," by Joy Harjo.
- Peter Burzynski recites "Finis," by Orlando White.
- Amber Wardzala recites "Living History" by Kimberly Blaeser.
- Liam Callanan recites "How to Write a Poem about the Sky" by Leslie Marmon Silko.
- Peggy Rozga recites "What Is a Poem?" by Simon Ortiz.
- Shanae Aurora Martínez recites "Today Was a Bad Day like TB," by Chrystos.
- 2015-2016 WI Poet Laureate, Kimberly Blaeser, recites "Eagle Poem," by Joy Harjo.
- Megan DeMeuse recites "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath.
- Jill Stuckenberg recites "Run for the Roses" by C. D. Wright.
- K.Y. Chan recites a Classical Chinese Poem.
- Sarah Cowan recites Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare.
- Maddie Kane recites "[i carry my heart with me(i carry it in]" by e.e. cummings.
- Nuzhat Baladi recites a Classical Poem in the Sindhi Language.
- Charles S. recites "Vengeance" by Walter Wheatly.
- Randy Jefferson recites "Someone" by Dennis O'Driscoll.
- Bill Quist recites "Sitting Alone at Sunrise: Problems in the Space-time Continuum" by Miller Williams.
- William Stobb recites "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass.
- Adam Halbur recites "Heart" by Shinkichi Takahashi.
- Madeline McNichols recites "Sonnet 123" by William Shakespeare.
- Margaret Rozga recites "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson.
- Wendy Vardaman recites "Blessing the Boats" by Lucille Clifton.
- b: william bearhart recites "Scheherazade" by Richard Siken.
- Sarah Sadie Busse recites "The Armadillo" by Elizabeth Bishop.
- JoAnn Chang recites "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carrol.
- Chuck Stebelton recites "A Round of English" by Lew Welch.
- Brenda Cárdenas recites "from 'Body in Flames'" by Francisco X. Alarcon.
- Lindsay Daigle recites an excerpt from "Florida" by Lorine Niedecker.