Readings from Favorite Poems in Tribute to Seamus Heaney
Intro: Gabriel Byrne IN A FIELD
1. Elise Paschen, BLACKBERRY PICKING
2. Meghan O'Rourke, MID-TERM BREAK
3. Colum McCann, MOSSBAWN (SUNLIGHT and DIGGING)
4. Colette Bryce, A SOFA IN THE FORTIES
5. Conor O'Callaghan, CLEARANCES #4
6. Alice McDermott, ST KEVIN & THE BLACKBIRD
7. Bernard O'Donoghue, AT THE WELLHEAD
8. Marie Howe, from SEEING THINGS
9. Matthew Sweeney, THE TOLLUND MAN
10. Nick Laird, STATION ISLAND Sec VII
11. Kevin Holohan, SINGING SCHOOL #4 SUMMER 1969
12. Henri Cole, OYSTERS
13. Craig Morgan Teicher, SQUARINGS
14. Mark Doty, from FROM THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIENCE
15. Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, reading her own poem newly written for Seamus
16. Enda Walsh, CLEARANCES #3
17. Paul Muldoon, KEEPING GOING
A week ago we went to Favorite Poems: In Tribute to Seamus Heaney, presented by the Irish Arts Center at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. The evening began, as the crowd gathered, with songs the great poet said he would want to have with him if he were a castaway stranded on a desert island. The original was broadcast in 1989 on BBC's Desert Island Discs.
Gray whale dies bringing us a message — with stomach full of plastic trash | Realnews24.com: "July 29, 2013, a sperm whale was stranded on Tershelling, a northern island in the Netherlands. A rescue attempt was attempted, but unfortunately the whale died. A young adult at 13.5 meters was taken for a necropsy at the port of Harlington. The sperm whale had plastic in its stomach, an increasing common phenomenon say researchers at the Biodiversity Centre Naturalis. In March of this year, a 10 meter long sperm whale washed up on Spain’s South Coast. This whale had swallowed 59 different plastic items totaling over 37 pounds. Most of this plastic consisted of transparent sheeting used to build greenhouses in Almeria and Grenada for the purpose of tomatoes for the European market. The rest was plastic bags, nine meters of rope, two stretches of hosepipe, two small flower pots, and a plastic spray canister. Cause of death was intestinal blockage."
