Here's the YouTube video of the entire evening. At YouTube, you can click to the beginning of each poem: Barot "Tarp," "On Gardens," "The Girl Carrying a Ladder," "The Wooden Overcoat," "After Darwish"; Tuffaha "Middle Village," "Immigrant," "Editorial," "Running Orders," "Water and Salt."
On October 15, 2014, the second edition of WordsWest Literary Series featured "Politics & Poetics with Rick Barot and Lena Khalaf Tuffaha." Rick read poems that spanned his career, including from his forthcoming 2015 collection Chord and from a draft written only hours before the event. Lena's selections included the wartime courtesy call of "Running Orders" and the hunger strike of "Water and Salt." It was a "braided" reading, with each poet taking the microphone several times. The reading was followed by a Q & A facilitated by poet Susan Rich about how Rick and Lena approach volatile subjects through their art. Jessica Bloch of Northwest Art and Frame dedicated her Favorite Poem, Eugene Field's "The Sugar-Plum Tree," to her mother. Here's the YouTube video of the entire evening. At YouTube, you can click to the beginning of each poem: Barot "Tarp," "On Gardens," "The Girl Carrying a Ladder," "The Wooden Overcoat," "After Darwish"; Tuffaha "Middle Village," "Immigrant," "Editorial," "Running Orders," "Water and Salt." The audio tracks split the presentation into three parts: Part 1 (poems); Part 2 (Q & A); and the Favorite Poem.
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