May 2013 Roethke/ Carver Read
May 2013 Roethke/Carver Read
Pairings of poems selected by Tess Gallagher and extended by Maxine Harris, a River
Junction Poet, to cover entire month
From The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke (edited 1966) and All of Us, The Collected Poems, 1996
by Tess Gallagher
ROETHKE – POEM AND PAGE
May 1
“No Bird 16
(epitaphic tribute to Emily Dickinson)”
May 2
“The Dream” 114,115
May 3
“Otto” 216, 217
May 4
“Sale” 30
May 5
“Siskins” 146
May 6
“Light Listened” 205
May 7
“The Right Thing” 242
May 8
“Ballad of The Clairvoyant Widow” 25,26
May 9
“The Tree, The Bird 240
May 10
“The Signals” 8
May 11
“Elegy for Jane” 98
May 12
“My Papa’s Waltz” 43
May 13
“Slug” 145
May 14
“Wish for a Young Wife” 210
May 15
“I Knew a Woman” 122
May 16
“Night Journey” 32
May 17
“A Light Breather” 97
May 18
CARVER – POEM AND PAGE
“A Poem Not Against Songbirds” 133
“For Tess” 138 or “A Forge, and a Scythe” 97
“The Trestle” 136,137 or “My Father in
his Twenty-Second Year” 7
“Distress Sale” page 5, 6,
“What I Can Do” 177,178 or “A Poem
Not Against Songbirds” 13
“This Word Love’ 235
“Thermopylae” 230
“The Moon, The Train 240
“Gravy” 292
“Two Worlds” 230
“Another Mystery” 255
“Photograph of My Father in his TwentySecond Year” 7
“Earwigs” 172
“Bonnard’s Nudes” 155
“Hummingbird” 278
“A Walk” 88, 89 or “Kafka’s Watch” 182
“Happiness” 65
“The Window” 211
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May 2013 Roethke/ Carver Read
“The Thing” 224
May 19
“The Shy Man” 209
May 20
“The Meadow Mouse” 219
May 21
“Mid-County Blow” 11
May 22
“The Manifestation” 227
May 23
“The Waking” 104
May 24
“The Far Field, 3” 194, 195
“Cherish” 292
“The Cobweb” 145
“Wind” 187,188
“Waiting” 205
“At Least” 81 or “Sleeping” 190
“Where Water Comes Together with Other
Water 63, 64 or “The White Field” 209
May 25 Birthday of Roethke and Carver
“The Premonition” 6
“The Vigil” 183, 184
May 26
“The Lost Son, 4, 5” 54, 55
May 27
“The Rose, 4” 199
May 28
“Meditation at Oyster River, 2, 4”
184, 185, 186
May 29
“Frau Bauman, Schmidt, Schwartz 42”
May 30
“Night Crow” 47
May 31
“Song for the Squeeze-Box” 107
“Winter Insomnia” 33
“Forever” 48, 49
“Sweet Light” 179
“Shiftless” 175, 176
“My Crow” 103
“Money” 78, 79
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