for Grownups
Read the poems. Come and discuss. We are a very non-pretentious group of poetry enthusiasts who gather monthly. This is an open group; there is no need to sign-up ahead of time -- just read the selection and show up. Bring a bottle of wine (or bourbon or whatever), or a dessert of some sort to share if you wish. (Hint: Chocolate always works.) Folks read their favorite poems and provide their own insights, and we have truly interesting and wonderful discussions. Send a note to Dave at dave@littleshopofstories.com if you would like more information or to get on the email list!
We’re meeting next on Wednesday, April 26th at 7 pm. We'll be discussing Dear Outsiders, by Jenny Sadre-Orafai. We will be joined by Ms. Sadre-Orafai.
It was requested that a list be compiled of all the works that we have read for Poetry & Wine. I will slowly, randomly put this together.
2023
April - Dear Outsiders by Jenny Sadre-Orafai (including a discussion with Jenny Sadre-Orafa)
March - Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral
February - Love Poems
January - Musical Tables by Billy Collins
2022
December - Potluck and memorial poems
November - Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland
October - Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O'Hara
July and September - The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
June - Hail, The Invisible Watchman by Alexandra Oliver
May - Time is a Mother by Ocean Veoung
April - Crush by Richard Siken
March - Magnificent Errors by Sheryl Luna
February - Reparations Now! by Ashley M. Jones
2021
December - Potluck and Haikus
November - The Gold Cell by Sharon Old
October - Red Clay Suite by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
September - Poetry Pot Luck: poems submitted by the group
August - The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
2020
March - Nightshade by Andrea Cohen (canceled due to the pandemic)
February - Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love by Keith S. Wilson
January - Hey Marfa: Poems by Jeffery Yang
2019
December - Pot luck, poetry, and music
November - The Café of Unintelligible Desire by Julia Knowlton (including a discussion with Julia Knowlton)
September - The Flame by Leonard Cohen
August - Still Life with Mother and Knife by Chelsea Rathburn
July - How to Love a Country by Ricahrd Blanco
June - A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver
May - The Tradition by Jericho Brown (including a discussion with Jericho Brown)
April - Power Politics by Margaret Atwood
March - Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
February - Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker
January - Years, Months, and Days by Amanda Jernigan
2018
October - Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (part two)
November - Hold by Bob Hicok
October - Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
September - feeld by Jos Charles
2017
September - Scald by Denise Duhamel
August - Lessons on Expulsion by Erika Sánchez
April - Madwoman by Shara McCallum
2016
November - The Poetry of Bob Dylan as selected by the group in honor of Dylan's Noble Prize in Literature
October - Unquiet Things by James Davis May
September - Dog Songs by Mary Oliver
June - 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East by Naomi Shibab Nye
April - The Best American Poetry edited by Sherman Alexie (the innaugural meeting)
Set in a small tourist town, two siblings attempt to navigate and survive an unfamiliar landscape after their parents' deaths while trying to simultaneously forget and remember them. Dear Outsiders explores how we are part of and stranger to our environments and to our families and how identities form by where and who we come from.