Poet Mark Doty reading
Saturday, March 23, 2008
at the
Split This Rock
Poetry Festival
March 21-24, 2008
Washington, DC
In this clip Doty reads his poem
"Charlie Howard's Descent."
This poem is in Doty's
1987 book "Turtle, Swan"
and also in his New and Selected
Poems collection, "Fire to Fire."
For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org
2008's inaugural festival featured poets
Grace Cavalieri, Dennis Brutus, Mark Doty, Naomi Shihab Nye, Brian Gilmore, Alex Olson, Martin Espada, Carolyn Forche, Kenneth Carroll, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Galway Kinnell, Coleman Barks, Pamela Chris August, Princess of Controversy, Joel Dias Porter (aka DJ Renegade), Ishle Yi Park, Steve Kuusisto, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, E. Ethelbert Miller, Alicia Ostriker, Sonia Sanchez, Patricia Smith, Susan Tichy, Pamela Uschuk, Belle Waring.
For more about Split This Rock,
the biennial poetry festival of
poetry of provocation and witness
visit
www.splitthisrock.org
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Doty is a true poet. Beautiful, truly.
And Charlie Howard was just a regular guy, but what happened to him was so awful that it needs to be remembered... so it won't ever happen again, hopefully.
insect1752 1 year ago
Stil a great poem.
Too many people try to write poetry without having read or heard a poem. And people like Doty have their masterpieces fall on deaf ears.
Listen and try not to be moved by this.
damienmetalwind 1 year ago
1:18 is really incredible.
writingobsessed 2 years ago
That's a very touching poem. Charlie Howard's death spoke to me as soon as I had read about it. Because of him, I fight harder for homosexual rights.
odd2auddie 2 years ago
What a great poem. Thanks for the upload.
Hairlesswookie62 3 years ago