April is National Poetry Month! Because poetry matters, we take a Sunday about once a year to create a ritual in poetry. Members of the Congregation will read poems.
Below is a list of what poems were read at the service.
- “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins – read by Mattie Whitehouse
- “Warning” by Jenny Joseph – read by Lisa Baker
- “Sometimes” by Sheenagh Pugh – read by Barbara Graham
- “Sunday Service” read and written by Shaun Phoenix
- “The Seven of Pentacles” by Marge Piercy – read by Lorca Smetana
- “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins – read by Peg Wherry
- “Old Age Dreams” and “The Light at the End of the Tunnel” read and written by JoAnne Salisbury Troxel
- “People My Age” by John Gorka – read by Lisa Trankley
- “Untitled” by Laura Jean Truman – read by Cami Armijo-Grover
- “Throw me a Line” by Carrie Newcomer – read by Kim Hoffman
- “Sick” by Shel Silverstein – read by Lucy
- “Stepping Out” and “Dirty Dancing with ‘Eli'” read and written by Nan Gregersen
- “Untitled” by Vera Carucci – read by Larry Carucci
- “Heart of a Dancer” by Ilana Maifeld-Carucci – read by Mary Maifeld
- “Prairie Wedding” by Anne Moore Knipfer – read by Warren Knipfer