Poems We Recited in Berkeley, 9/20/26

Larry Robinson

A Brief For The Defense - Jack Gilbert
I Think Continually - Stephen Spender
Beginners - Denise Levertov
In Blackwater Woods - Mary Oliver
Love This Miraculous World - Wendell Berry
The Cure At Troy - Seamus Heaney
An Arab Shepherd - Yehuda Amichai
There Is No One But Us - Annie Dillard

Maya Spector

A Vision - Wendell Berry

The Ancient Ones - Patricia Reis

Every Tree - Rumi

Say I Am You - Rumi

Roses, Late Summer - Mary Oliver

Let Evening Come - Jane Kenyon

Slip Away - Jesse Moore

Creating Islands of Sanity - Maya Spector

Barry Spector

Grandfathers, Grandmothers – Ojibway Prayer

The Loved Ones – Wendell Berry

After Death – Wendell Berry

Earth Poem – Mahmoud Darwish

The Last Love Poem – Joseph Fasano

Blackberry Eating – Galway Kinnel

It’s Possible – Antonio Machado

I want to Write – Mary Oliver

Has Anyone Seen the Boy – Rumi

Good Bones – Maggie Smith

One Day – David Whyte

The Masque of Anarchy – Percy Shelly

It’s A Good Thing to Memorize Poems– Gary Snyder

Kay Crista

When You Return — Ellen Bass

Some Girls — Alison Letterman

The Birthing — Deborah Digges

Who Says Words — Rumi

How To Listen — James Crews

Bioluminescence — Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

For When People Ask — Rosemary Wahtola Trommer

North Street — A.R. Ammons

Children — Billy Collins

Rebecca Evert

Be patient with all that is unresolved in your heart - Rilke

Earth Teach Me - Ute Indian Prayer

The Word that is a Prayer - Ellery Ackers

The Dead - Billy Collins

Ripening - Wendall Berry

The Inner History of a Day - John O’Donohue

Revelations - Fred Lamotte

Eye of the Future - Terry Tempest Williams