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Ed Ochester and Judith Vollmer Featuring: Ed Ochester and: Judith Vollmer Host: Marc Harshman The Wheeling Poe try Series Launched in September 2015, the “Wheeling Poetry Series” fea- tures readings by some of the finest poets from our Appalachian region and beyond. When he is available, Marc Harshman, the poet laureate of West Virginia, serves as host. The series came about as a result of an ongoing conversation with Harshman, who felt that there was a need for a dependable venue in which to present major American poets reading and talking about their work here in West Virginia and more specifically here in Wheeling. Harshman had long lamented the loss of the James Wright Festival which had been held for many years in Wright’s home town of Martins Ferry, Ohio. “That annual event was a tow- ering success,” Harshman explained, “lauded by poets across the U.S., and I see no reason why such a success cannot be replicated here in Wheeling. And some will remember that frequently some of the programming for the Wright festival was, in fact, held at var- ious locations in Wheeling.” George Ella Lyon, poet laureate of Kentucky, & Marc Harshman, poet laureate of West Virginia, at the inau- gural Wheeling Poetry Series at Lunch With Books, September 29, 2015. 1 October 9, 2018: Our First Guest Today Ed Ochester Ed Ochester's most recent book, SUGAR RUN ROAD, was published by Autumn House Press. He is the editor of the University of Pittsburgh Press Poetry Series and for many years was a member of the core faculty of the Bennington MFA Writing Seminars. Recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Agni, Boulevard, Nerve Cowboy, Great Riv- er Review, Gettysburg Review and other magazines; poems of his were selected for "Best American Poems" 2007 and 2013. He was formerly director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and was twice elected president of Associated Writing Programs. 2 For Britt Dec. 16, Beethoven's birthday Beethoven is such a great composer but his personality is questionable which shows once again that one is what one does--music, poems, or even money have claims but also such unremarked acts as feeding sparrows in winter which God doesn't do too well-- though we're told He notes the fall of every one--so that as I park the car your sparrows in the snow-covered forsythia greet the weak sun with a matrix of cheeping, dozens of them, not from gratitude but perhaps from overflowing joy — Ed Ochester Fall Crows, crows, crows, crows then the slow flapaway over the hill and the dead oak is naked — Ed Ochester 3 September Rain Old house, of children's laughter and tears. Then and now the spruces bend under the rain. The red maple we planted last spring has survived the summer's drought. The garden is ready for snow. I've spent much of my life walking a few acres between two unnamed hills. I shouldn't brag, I know. So many people don't know where they live. — Ed Ochester [ All poems from Sugar Run Road, Ed Ochester, Autumn House Press, 2015] 4 October 9, 2018: Our Second Guest Today Judith Vollmer Judith Vollmer is the author of five full-length books of poetry, including most recently, THE APOLLONIA POEMS, awarded the Four Lakes Poetry Prize of the University of Wisconsin Press. Vollmer’s poems, es- says, and reviews have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Women's Re- view of Books, The Georgia Review, Poetry International, The Fourth River, The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire, and elsewhere. She teaches in the Drew University MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation and lives in Pittsburgh. 7 MUSIC LESSONS My mother packed me off to music school in May and the college girls wore white gloves. Sister Ann Agnes said: “No, don’t look at me. Don’t look at your hands. Close your eyes. Listen and you’ll hear it.” She sang a high, bird note. I listened, my eyes gliding over light pools on the wall. Notes were everywhere, secret as the girls’ voices out on the lawn. I found high F sharp. She smiled, giving me the first perfect thing I’d ever known. Now she sang her mellowest note, its tremolo breathing across the top of my hair. She leaned toward the open window and the vibrato curled into my spine. I watched sprinklers wave like silver harps. I played a simplified Debussy, my fingers skinny birds over water, the water rising like mist above the keys. — Judith Vollmer [ Level Green, Judith Vollmer, University of Wisconsin Press, 1990] 8 CHILDREN OF OCTOBER Those of us born in July, voluptuous & moody frost the sun with our loneliness. Under hottest skies we sing to the hidden moon. Those born in July are children of October carrying bushels of peaches home, never too early to stock up, take home wherever we go, buoyant as saltwater showing off our rare equilibrium, conceived in October when two fall to the floor, laughing in search of a lost earring. Those of us born in July carry our opposite season like the willow does. She lets her long green hair down, turning her flexible head down to brush the weeds & clasp tufts of rabbit fur into her slender olivine leaves, dressing herself for the cold, always last to drop her leaves, first to show her bittersoft mud-yellow tongues. — Judith Vollmer [ The Apollonia Poems, Judith Vollmer, University of Wisconsin Press, 2017] 5 The Wheeling Poe try Series “I have a great faith in poetry to refocus in us what it means to be human, and with every passing year I feel an ever greater need to be reminded about what it is that we hold in common as men and women who value beauty and the kind of mean- ing revealed in artistic expression. I am not embarrassed to continue to quote as immensely relevant William Carlos Wil- liams’ adage that ‘It is difficult / to get the news from po- ems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there.’ In a political season that seems more sad and pathetic than ever before, perhaps the news that may be found in poetry will hold a brightness, a freshness more useful than the sound-bites from talking heads reporting on the doings of the millionaires and corporate figure heads dominating what currently passes for news here in America.” -Marc Harshman, West Virginia Poet Laureate Coming up at the Wheeling Poe try Series: John Hodgen, visiting assistant pro- fessor of English at Assumption Col- lege, Worcester, MA, will be our next Wheeling Poetry Series guest, Lunch With Books, April 23, 2019 at noon. Hogden is the author of three previous books of po- etry: IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, winner of the Bluestem Award; BREAD WITHOUT SORROW, winner of the Bal- cones Poetry Prize; and GRACE, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. 6 Previous Guests: Wheeling Poe try Series George Ella Lyon The Wheeling Poetry Series open- er featured the poet laureate of Ken- tucky, George Ella Lyon, who ap- peared at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Sep- tember 29, 2015. The author of four books of poetry, a novel, a memoir, a short story col- lection, and thirty-seven books for young readers, Lyon read from her collection, Many-Storied House. Originally from the mountains of Kentucky, George Ella holds a PhD in English from Indiana University, where she studied with poet Ruth Stone. She has taught writing on many campuses and spoken at hun- dreds of schools, libraries, and con- ferences throughout the country. Steve Scafidi Steve Scafidi, the featured guest at the second entry in the Wheeling Poetry Series on April 26, 2016, read Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio by his favorite poet, James Wright. “Wright wrote poems that endure,” Scafidi said. “His poems move me—they helped me live when I was younger and they still do.” From his own poems, Scafidi read This Page, written for his late grandmother, The Coin, a poem in which he imagines Abraham Lin- coln’s son Robert carrying the first Lincoln penny in his pocket, and Song for Sunday Morning, a poem he dedicated to fathers everywhere. Scafidi, who earned his MFA in crea- tive writing at Arizona State Univer- sity, lives in Summit Point, WV. 9 Ace Boggess Our featured guest on August 9, 2016, Charleston native Ace Boggess read from his book of po- etry, The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014). Ace has also published The Beautiful Girl Whose Wish Was Not Fulfilled (Highwire Press, 2003). His novel, A Song Without a Melody, was pub- lished in December 2016 by Hyper- borea Publishing. His writing has appeared in Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, RATTLE, River Styx, North Da- kota Quarterly and many other jour- nals. He earned his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law, received a fellowship from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, and spent five years in West Virginia prison system (the basis for his latest book of poems). Maggie Anderson Maggie Anderson, the featured Wheeling Poetry Series guest October 4, 2016, is the author of four books of poetry, including Windfall: New and Selected Poems, A Space Filled with Moving, and Cold Comfort. Her awards include two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, fellowships from the Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania Councils on the Arts, and the Ohio- ana Library Award for contributions to the literary arts in Ohio.
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