Jonathan Skinner - October 22, 2009

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Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner presents his work as part of the Poetry Center's Fall 2009 sequence of themed readings, "Oh Earth, Wait for Me: Conversations about Art and Ecology." After opening with a talk titled "Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape," he reads poems from With Naked Foot (2009) and Political Cactus Poems (2005). He closes the reading with poems from an ongoing series titled Warblers, some of which would be published in chapbook form by Albion Books (2010). This reading was given alongside Juliana Spahr.

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Welcome
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by Gail Browne

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Introduction
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by Juliana Spahr

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"Thoughts on Things: Poetics of the Third Landscape"
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An original talk on ecopoetics.

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"Waves"
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excerpt from "Four Sounds"

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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Redwoods"
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excerpt from "Four Sounds"

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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Clearcut"
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excerpt from "Four Sounds"

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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Peepers"
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excerpt from "Four Sounds"

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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Birds of the Holy Lands"
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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Birds of the Holy Lands" (cont.)
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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Birds of the Holy Lands" (cont.)
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Skinner, Jonathan. With Naked Foot. Buffalo: Scratch Pad Editions, 2009.

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"Thousands of Eyes Catch the Light Through Your Open Door"
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Unpublished.

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"Lonesome George"
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Unpublished.

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"August Evening"
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Unpublished.

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"Aporocactus Flagelliformis", "Aporocactus Martianus", "Ariocarpus Fissuratus", "Arrojadoa Beateae",
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Skinner, Jonathan. Political Cactus Poems. Long Beach: Palm Press, 2005.

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"Black and White Warbler"
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Unpublished.

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"Black Throated Blue"
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Unpublished.

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"Northern Parula"
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Skinner, Jonathan. Warblers. San Francisco: Albion Books, 2010.

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"Myrtle"
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Skinner, Jonathan. Warblers. San Francisco: Albion Books, 2010.

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"Magnolia"
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Introduced as "Magnolia Warbler."

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Skinner, Jonathan. Warblers. San Francisco: Albion Books, 2010.

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"Mockingbird Transcription"
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Unpublished.

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Question and Answer Session
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with Juliana Spahr

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