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Company/School – Sarah Lawrence College
Date(s) – 2006/09
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Writer – Robert Browning
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Details from the Campus Event Calendar:
5th Annual Dead Poets Slam
Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Reisinger Concert Hall
Students will embody and present the work of dead poets in a lively, theatrical context. Performers include: Jade Foster, Jorge Monterrosa, Meg Plunkett, Sonnet Graham, Natalie Park, Shannon Houston, Davin Searls, Hadley Franklin, Molly Jo Gorevan, Emmalea Russo, Lindsey Bontempo, Gary Ploski, John Powell, David Clark, Arielle Narva, Judith Chiriqui, Josh Schneider, Melissa Bayer, Jennifer Hanks, Jake Schneider, and several faculty guests. Poems to be performed include work by Anne Sexton, John Donne, June Jordan, Yehuda Amichai, Marina Tsvetaeva, Miguel Pinero, John Berryman, Frank O’Hara, William Carlos Williams, and others. Organized by Jeffrey McDaniel and Sonnet Graham.
Performance
Production experience
The right class at the right time. Acting the Poetic Text + poetry reading = FTW! (for the win)
The language of poetry held me done when I read the poem aloud standing on stage. It was strange. With two opportunities in class I was asked a few very specific question that knocked out a wedge from the wheel. Momentum quickly built up and I sprinted for the finish.
Before taking the stage, all the readers were sitting in the same space as the audience, I placed myself in Porphyria’s Lover’s world. It was exhilarating. A friend that came to the event said she knew something was going on because I didn’t look like myself.
After finishing I returned to my seat and heard 3 or 4 readers finish before I felt relaxed. I was exhausted. I feel so fortunate to have the reading available to watch again. My only wish was… No, that’s not meant to be written. It is art and it is, now, what it is.
On a side note.
The recording has been watched 6,783 (as of April 10th) since it was uploaded on March 14, 2007. This averages to approximately 18 views per day. The view has been rated 10 times and presently has a 4.5 of 5 star rating with 9 comments.