This week former Butler University grad, NY poet, Matt Yeager visited campus and gave an outstanding, energetic, and enthralling reading. Honestly, lucky me to have class in Efroymson on Thursday nights, or I might have missed it.
Anyway, the following is a setlist of poems he read. He began with the best, a must-hear-out-loud poem full of repetition and energy. He then moved into a set of sonnets (he says he has written 120, and will stop when he reaches 154, to rival Shakespeare, but I bet he keeps going), and then a bit of prose poem mischief that had the audience in giggles, and then some "songs from the gut":
1. Sleep Mothers
2. Black Socks White Socks
3. Couples in Plays, Couples on Screen
4. The Balloon Shop
5. Chad Johnson
6. Lukewarm Coffee
7. Top Floor Apartment Sans Ceiling
8. Poems are Grown (honestly, I'm not sure this was the title--I might have written down a snippet of his conversation here...)
9. Ode to Naps
10. Ode on Bacon
11. Portrait of Chico (his gut)
12. Ode on Cartoon Dancing Skeleton
13. Personal Physiology
A couple of comments he made about writing:
"When you are trying to write too hard to 'please', go the other way and offend everyone."
Poems occur when "the soul is abducted by a distant sense."
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