Roland Flint
Roland Flint
Flint, Roland
Reading Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998
Full Reading-13178
Description:
Introduction by Alison Hawthorne Deming. Recording cuts out briefly from 47:27 to 47:40 and ends just before the reading is complete.
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Reading Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Series: Fall Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Roland Flint, Poet Laureate of Maryland at the time of this reading, opens with early poems from Say It (1979) and Resuming Green (1983). Flint reads from his National Poetry Series volume Stubborn (1990), interspersing work from Stubborn with recently written poems, some of which would go on to be published in Easy (1999). Flint also discusses his work as a translator of Bulgarian and reads several of his translations.

- humor
- nature
- family
- elegy
- translation
- music
- jazz
- children
- death
- love
- sex
- narrative
- loss
- movies
- new orleans
- motherhood
- film
- animals
- grief
- neighbors
- daughters
- poet laureate
- prayer
- tragedy
- marriage
- politics
- new york
- friendship
- fatherhood
- zoo
- writing
- trees
- mothers
- weddings
- ohio
- vocation
- Bulgarian
- pigeons
- homage
- short poems
- parenting
- Henry Miller
- Anais Nin
- laughter
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