Poetry Readers Circle Sponsored by the FOL's Ruth D. Bogen Fund

Each month Paula Curci,  Nassau County Poet Laureate Emerita 2022-2024,  will moderate a new poetry discussion about selected poems chosen from Harold Bloom's The Best Poems of the English Language: from Chaucer through Frost.  Selections can be found at the Information desk. 

This month's selections are:

Sir John Suckling   

1, Song   

2.  "Out upon it!  I have Loved" pages 167-168

Chidiock Tichborne   

Tichborne's Elegy Page s103-104

John Keats

1. Ode To a Nightingale   

2. Ode To a Grecian Urn pages 463-483

3. To Autumn Pages 482-483  

Copies of the selected text are available at the Information Desk. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Library’s Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Fund.

Paula Curci is the producer of the award-winning Calliope’s Corner: the Place Where Poets and Songwriters Meet and What’s The Buzz ® on Radio Hofstra University, and she is a Poet Correspondent for The Scene. She co-founded the Shore Poets and co-edited the micro memoir anthology Poetry: “It’s a ‘Shore’ Thing! In an Unsure World. Through her Acoustic Poets Network™ projects, she has produced several spoken word and print compilations, poetry visuals, poetry festivals, and contests. Paula is a Journal to the Self® journal writing instructor and facilitates introspective free verse poetry workshops and open mics. Paula performs her posics™ style of poetry at various events.