North Beach Night
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Casa Domenech
American Prophecy
A POETRY READING
Excerpt from The Sun is a Neon Sign, a forthcoming play
about Federico Garcia Lorca by Grace Kary
“America”
Allen Ginsberg
“I Am Waiting”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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“The American Way”
Gregory Corso
“I Saw One of Them”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poetry Reading – Mar 16, 2017
North Beach Night
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Casa Domenech
THE Irish Green
A POETRY READING
To help us all get ready for the wearin’ o’ the Green, we offer a selection of poems celebrating Ireland, the Irish, and St. Patricks Day.
“The Great Gaels of Ireland”
G. K. Chesterton
“A Drinking Song”
William Butler Yates
“Who Goes Amid the Green Wood”
James Joyce
“The Lost Land”
Eavan Boland
“How She Went to Ireland”
Thomas Hardy
As Ireland Wore The Green
Henry Lawson
“The Love of St. Patrick”
Traditional
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Brendan Behan ~ Quotes
Poetry Reading – Mar 9, 2017
North Beach Night
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Casa Domenech
THE CITY LIGHTS GANG
A POETRY READING
For this reading, we selected poems we felt were characteristic of each of 6 poets whose artistic home was in San Francisco’s North Beach and City Light Books.
“Hitchhiker”
Jack Kerouac
“For the Children”
Gary Snyder
“The Whole Mess… Almost”
Gregory Corso
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“German”
Charles Bukowski
“The Terms in Which I Think of Reality”
Allen Ginsberg
“The Old Italians Dying”
Lawrence Ferlinghetti