Here follows the set-list of texts read at the Annual Core Poetry Reading, held this year on April 11, 2017 (this information is listed in the 2017 Core Almanac, part of the Core Journal published this year, Issue 26: http://bu.edu/core/journal/xxvi):
- Zachary Bos read
- After Reading Keats’ Ode by W. H. Auden
- Extracts from a letter written from John Keats to his siblings George and Georgiania; extract from a letter from Keats to his sister Fanny
- Poem XXIX from Midsummer by Derek Walcott
- Archie Burnett read
- Holy Willie’s Prayer and To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert Burns
- David Ferry read
- Lines 719-61 (Book VI) from his own translation of Virgil’s Aeneid
- An excerpt from Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
- Brian Jorgensen read
- An untitled poem usually referred to by its first line, There Was a Child Went Forth, by Walt Whitman
- False Popularity by Friedrich Holderlin, translated by Michael Hamburger
- George Kalogeris read
- His own version, titled Days, of Terzinen ber Vergnglichkeit (Tercets on Transience) by Hugo von Hofmannsthal,
- An original poem, Rilke Rereading Holderlin
- Anita Patterson read
- The Rhodoraby Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Exile (from the Persian of Kermani), also by Emerson
- Christopher Ricks read
- The Star by Jane Taylor
- January 1895 by Mary Robinson
- Summer Is Ended by Christina Rossetti
- Villeggiature by E. Nesbit
- Sassan Tabatabai read
- We Are Seven by William 13 Wordsworth
- La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
- Meg Tyler read
- The first one and a half lines from John Clare’s Don Juan, and Clare’s The Badger
- Jon Westling read
- General William Booth Enters Into Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
(Bonus: here is a link to the musical settingof this poem, which Prof. Westling told the assembled guests about before he read.)
- General William Booth Enters Into Heaven by Vachel Lindsay
