6/6/2016 "The Mountain Whipporwill" by Stephen Vincent Benet at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York 6/13/2016 "The Mountain Whipporwill" by Stephen Vincent Benet at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York

7/11/2016 "Three Poems by James Tate" at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York: "Bounden Duty," "It

      Happens Like This," and "The Workforce."

8/22/16 "The Great Man" by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

9/12/16 "Exquisite Candidate" by Denis Duhamel and "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer at "The Inspired Word,"

Parkside Lounge in New York

10/3/16 "The Great Man" (Revised) by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

10/17/16 "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

10/24/16 "The Great Man" (Further Revised) by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

10/31/16 "The Great Man" (Further Revised) by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

11/07/16 "The Great Man" (Further Revised) by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

11/14/16 "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats, "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carrol, and "Casey at the Bat, by Ernest

Lawrence Thayer at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

11/21/16 "Autumn Leaves" by Zartman Smith; "The New Fall Season" by Zartman Smith; "Cybele's Time" by Zartman Smith; \

"Field Theory" by Crystal Elizabeth "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York

11/28/16 "Alice's Restaurant" by Arlo Guthrie, "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York

12/5/16 "The Invisible Alligators" by James Tate and "Shut Up and Eat Your Toad" by James Tate, "The Inspired Word,"

Parkside Lounge in New York

12/19/16 "Donald Dances the Tango Trump" by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

1/9/2017 "The Mountain Whipporwill" by Stephen Vincent Benet at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York

1/23/17 "The Donald Dance" by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New York.

1/30/17 "Spanglish" by Tato Liviera and "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus  at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in

            New York.

2/6/2017 "Managing Your House of Cards: A Manual" by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New

York

2/13/2017 "Presidential Wisdom: An Epiphany" by Zartman Smith at "The Inspired Word," Parkside Lounge in New

York

2/27/2017 Professor Irwin Cory’s acceptance speech for Thomas Pynchon at the 1974 National Book Awards, at “The

Inspired Word,” Parkside Lounge in New York

3/6/17 “The Truth” by Emily Dickinson; “Truth” by Bacchylides; “The Adamant” by Theodore Roethke; “IN a Dark Time” by

Theodore Roethke; “Truth Never Descends” by Sri Chinmoy; “Truth is as Old as God” by Emily Dickinson, at “The Inspired Word,” Parkside Lounge in New York

3/13/17 “Trump’s 23rd” by Garrison Keillor, at “The Inspired Word,” Parkside Lounge in New York

3/20/17 “The Domination of Black” by Wallace Stevens; “Survivor Guilt” by Ron Padgett; “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts” by

Wallace Stevens, at “The Inspired Word,” Parkside Lounge in New York

4/3 4/17 "On the Fifth Day By Jane Hirshfield, "The Second Coming," by William Butler Yeats, at “The Inspired Word,”

Parkside Lounge in New York

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