Tonight: Frank Bidart reads for Poetry Day

Thursday, October 14, 6:00 PM

Poetry Day: Frank Bidart
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
Harold Washington Library Center
400 South State Street
Free admission

Now in its 56th year, Poetry Day is one of the oldest and most distinguished reading series in the country. Inaugurated by Robert Frost, Poetry Day has featured such poets as T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, and Adrienne Rich.

In a career spanning 30 years, Frank Bidart has established himself as one of the most original and compelling poets of his generation. Initially influenced by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, and later by his teacher Robert Lowell, Bidart has expanded the possibilities of poetry. He is the author of eight critically acclaimed collections, including Desire, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Star Dust.

Poetry on Stage: The Misanthrope by Molière, translated by Richard Wilbur
Sunday, October 24, 7:30 PM
Monday, October 25, 7:30 PM

Poetry Off the Shelf: John Balaban & Le Pham Le
Thursday, October 28, 6:00 PM

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DarkPoetry Poem of the Day: e a t e n

little bites
greedy
and
yearning

swing

over
lies
you
provide

and

dissect

every
inch
of
your
abstraction

but
maybe
oblivion
has
me
tight

because

i
just
sink in

you

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UDDERS
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If women had udders
and cows had breasts
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the feisty heifer
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Would it be Sharon
the Croydon belle
With udder attached to her sternum?
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throughout the land
though four-teated Sharon'd spurn 'em.

Would Farmer's Monthly
become a jazz mag
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Would Playboy become
a livestock guide
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[Poetry Chaikhana] Kobayashi Issa - From burweed

Here's your Daily Poem from the Poetry Chaikhana --

From burweed

By Kobayashi Issa
(1763 - 1828)

English version by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto

From burweed,
such a butterfly
was born?

-- from Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter, Translated by Lucien Stryk / Translated by Takashi Ikemoto

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Every effort, the entire pathway,
leads to precisely one step:
a step out of the way.

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Hi Omss -

Kobayashi Issa, or simply Issa, is one of the best known and appreciated haiku poets.

Although Issa's life was filled with struggles -- the early death of his mother and later his children, family conflicts, and poverty -- his haiku tend to celebrate the serene joys and simple spiritual moments of life.

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Haiku has such a powerful way of discovering great truth in the details of nature. It is a poetry of metaphor and surprise. Glimpse it for just a moment and you see the macrocosm reflected by the microcosm, the Eternal in the specific.

One should never be too casual or definite in interpreting the meaning of a haiku. It is like a dream; the meaning is felt, it is immediate, and it reflects something of yourself back to yourself. It resists being overly defined. But that won't stop me from suggesting one possible way of understanding this haiku... :-)

This haiku by Issa can be read as a poem of instant enlightenment. Issa is stunned to recognize that from "burweed" -- the mind, the rough, mud-hugging "weed" filled with burrs of self-thought -- such elegant, diaphanous life and freedom -- the awakened self -- can be born.

This begs the question, how can we bring the "butterfly" to birth? First, we need the Winter of spiritual practice and inturning (the gestation within the cocoon). And we must hold fast to the earth (the mud of the weed), to steadiness, to nature. All that is needed then is to simply wait for the new light of Spring to naturally awaken life, growth, transformation.

The sun is out in a cool autumn sky today. Even though it's not the season, I'm sure if I really look I'll discover a butterfly!

Ivan

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