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Sustenance for the Soul:
Food in Poetry
A Reading
the Arts Series
Do you find poetry in food or food in poetry? Either way, you will find nourishment for your soul with this series. Poets and other writers have long used food as a muse and a means of stirring memory, creating new imagery, and for description of emotion. From Shakespeare, who uses food and appetite as a way of characterization (Falstaff comes to mind); to Emily Dickinson who used eating as a means of description everyone would understand ("Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate"), food plays a large part in our literal and figurative survival.
This series takes contemporary poets' writings about food and eating and turns them into food for the soul. You will read about the poets, explore their takes on all things culinary, and then try your hand at creating your own nourishing poetry.
Contemporary American Poetry, 8th edition, Editors Al Poulin and Michael Waters
Food Settings in Poetry
Tenderly - Stephen Dobyns pg 109
Supper - Andrew Hudgens pg 229
The Acolyte - Denise Leverton pg 299
The Two - Philip Levine pg 314
Steps - Naomi Shihab Nye pg 357
The Shapes of Mouths at Parties - Naomi Shihab Nye pg 360
Personal Poem - Frank O'Hara pg 367
Poetic Descriptions of Food
In the Pea Patch - Maxine Kumin pg 278
Onions - William Matthews pg 330
Field Mushrooms - W.S. Merwin pg 342
The Traveling Onion - Naomi Shihab Nye pg 363
Fork - Charles Simic pg 441
Food Stirs Memory
Tomatoes - Stephen Dobyns pg 110
Crab-Boil - Rita Dove pg 114
Maple Syrup - Donald Hall pg 183
Blackberries - Yusef Komunyakaa pg 265
Persimmons - Li-Young Lee pg 292
What Brings Us Out - Naomi Shihab Nye pg 361
Poetic Gathering
The Fish - Gwendolyn Bishop pg 41
To Kill a Deer - Carol Frost pg 140
The Hen - Ellen Bryant Voigt pg 545
Harvesting the Cows - Ellen Bryant Voigt pg 550
Eating Poetry
OssoBuco - Billy Collins pg 83
Blackberry Eating - Galway Kinnell pg 247
Requiem on I-89 - Maxine Kumin pg 275
Eating Alone - Li-Young Lee pg 294
Eating Together - Li-Young Lee pg 295
The Simple Truth - Philip Levine pg 307
Another Insane Devotion - Gerald Stern pg 525
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