Robert Padgett Reading / September 12, 2007
Event Report
Poet Ron Padgett read before a capacity audience of more than a hundred people on September 12, at 8 p.m., in Neville Hall 100. The New Writing Series and the UMaine Honors College co-sponsored the event.
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Set List
Introduction by Steve Evans
Mortal Combat
Toothbrush
Rialto
Now at the Sahara
Sitting down somewhere else
Gothic Red
Method
Dead or Alive in Belgium
Hound Dog
Why God Did What He Did
Rem. on preceding poem
Bed
Slight Foxing
Hercules
Rem. on Greek gods and mythology
Bastille Day
The Absolutely Huge and Incredible Injustice in the World
Questions
What is the point of writing poems, especially poems like yours?
How do you define what a poem is?
How does being a translator alter your relation to your own language? And why did you choose to translate Apollinaire?
What is the most frustrating thing about being a poet?
How did you develop the courage to write whatever you wished?