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Watch Date(s)Fri, Jun 26, 2020
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Overview
"As old, pleasant, zen-like dogs often do, she had a thing or two to teach me about attention, about focus, about contentment. She had a particular quality of stillness that swept the whole room into its arc, and under its spell. The poem...attempts to capture that movement, from noise and business to stillness and and quietness, the kind of conversion we've all been making during the past few weeks."
Vona Groarke introduces "This Being Still," a piece born from the time spent with her pup, Judy, in residence at the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island, and read for our PoetryFest audience in 2018.
Irish Arts Center Poem of the Week is a series of select footage from ten years of PoetryFest—our annual festival that has welcomed Billy Collins, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Kevin Young, Vona Groarke, Ciaran Carson, Tracy K. Smith, Terrance Hayes, Natalie Diaz, Paul Muldoon, Tina Chang, and so many more prominent voices from Ireland and America—as well as new commissioned readings, presented with the readers’ reflections on the featured work.
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