The Great Boston Poetry Marathon of 2010

Three Centuries of Poetry & 48 Poets in 12 Hours!

  • Marathon Reading Schedule
  • Poetry Marathon Map
  • About Dead Poets Remembrance Day
  • Mt. Auburn Cemetery
  • Poetry Marathon Press Release
  • American Literary Blog
  • Rhina Espaillat
  • Marjory Wentworth
  • Meet Thoreau
  • Gloucester: Poetry & Place

Full Boston Poetry Marathon Schedule

    1st Leg: 6:15 to 6: 50 AM  at the Gloucester Fisherman Monument   (Rain location: TBA)

Poet & Location

Poem/s

Readers

6:15 – 7:15 AM Fisherman statue in Gloucester.  (Sunrise, at 6:45 AM)


Vincent Ferrini

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Sarah Orne Jewett   

T. S. Eliot

Clarence Manning Falt

Herbert Kenny   

William Vaughn Moody

 

 

 

"Wreck of the Hesperus"

“Gloucester Harbor”

"The Gloucester Mothers"

From "Dry Salvages"

"Fog Bell and Whisling Buoy"  

"At a Gloucester Memorial"

Gloucester Moors  

 

 

K. Peddlar Bridges, The Biker Poet

 

Marjory Wentworth

7:15 – 7:30  Breakfast break

15 minutes to grave of Charles Olson 



 

 

8:00 – 8:20  Gloucester Cemetery

(Next: 20 Minutes to Beverly) 

Charles Olson & Story of his funeral & headstone

 

 

2nd Leg: Beverly & Salem   (Rain locations TBA)

8:45 – 9:45 Lynch Park, Beverly

Lucy Larcom

George Woodberry

John Updike

Sylvia Plath

Robert Lowell

Elizabeth Bishop
 


 

 


"Suicide Off Egg Rock"

 

"Ballad of the Subway Train"

North of Boston

"For CW"

 

 

K. Peddlar, Biker Poet

Michael Updike

 

 

Marjory Wentworth

 

Mark Stevick

10:00 - 10:30 AM  Old South Cemetery, Salem-Peabody 

Michael Wigglesworth

Rev. Timothy Flint

Rev. Jones Very 

 Three Preacher-Poets

1. A Prayer Unto Christ 

2. Vanity of Vanities

1. Flint’s Epitaph

2.

  

Charles Skold

4th Leg: 11:30 - 12:30 Boston Irish Famine Memorial  (Rain locations: TBA)

11:30 – 12:30 Irish Famine Memorial 

Charles Sprague: Sprague was called the "Banker-Poet" of Boston. He is buried in the family vault.

Phillis Wheatley: Wheatley was the first African-American poetess. Her burial place remains a mystery.

Anne Bradstreet

John Boyle O’Reilly

Edgar Allan Poe

 

Excerpts from “An Ode: Pronounced Before The Inhabitants of Boston, Sept. the 17th, 1830...”

1. Excerpt from Ocean 

2. To Maecenas 

Special Appearance of Edgar Allan Poe

     

5th Leg: Mt. Auburn Cemetery  (Rain Location: Mt. Auburn Storey Chapel)

2:00 to 4:30. Sweet Auburn: ............ An American Parnassus ................... 

. A 21-grave salute & walking tour.

Join Nationally-known poets Rhina Espaillat, Marjory Wentworth, and Lisa Starr as we scale the slopes of the  imagination in this American Parnassus garden of graves.

John Ciardi


Maria White Lowell

Morning Glory

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Rob Velella

"Longfellow"

Nathaniel Parker Willis

 

Charles Eliot Norton

Selection from Norton’s translation of

Dante’s Paradise

Frances Sargent Osgood

The Hand That Swept the Sounding Lyre

Fanny Parnell

"Post Mortem"

Julia Ward Howe

Poems  Sing “Battle Hymn of the Republic”

Margaret Fuller

Discussion of her Death, Rob Velella

Buckminster Fuller

Selections of his poetry 

Amy Lowell

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Marjory Wentworth 

Robert Creeley

"Stairway To Heaven"

Louise Chandler Moulton

 “In Memoriam” Written for her friend

Louisa May Alcott

Christopher Pease Cranch

 

Gamaliel Bradford

 

John Pierpont Sr.

Special Presentation By The Proper Ladies

Then sing “Jingle Bells”

Caroline Frances Orne

 Selections From “Sweet Auburn”

David McCord

Read his epitaph and poems

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Rhina Espaillat reading

“Last Leaf” “Too Young For Love”

James Russell Lowell

Special Presentation on Maria Lowell by The Proper Ladies

Henry Longfellow

Rhina Espaillat reading: Shakespeare, The Singers, Chaucer

Discussion of his grave, Rob Vellela

6th Leg:  5:30 - 6:30 Author’s Ridge, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

(Rain Backup: Bring Umbrella or Colonial Inn)

 

5:30 - 6:45.  Author's Ridge,

Sleepy Hollow, Concord, MA. 

 

A Special Visit from Henry Thoreau as he talks about his friends buried on Author’s Ridge.

William Channing

 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

 

 

Henry Thoreau

 Reader: Carl Carlsen

 

Louisa May Alcott

 

Reader: Rosanne Kramer

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Party at Concord's Colonial Inn

 

 



Pages

  • About Dead Poets Remembrance Day
  • Full Boston Poetry Marathon Schedule
  • Olson Tombstone in Danger of Splitting
  • Poetry Marathon Press Release
  • Synopsis of the 6 Marathon Stops
  • The Great Boston Poetry Marathon Map

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