A Word of Mouth Featured Reading - "To Go To Patagonia - poems from the far lands"

Bob Ambrose, Jr.
Featured Reading at Athens Word of Mouth
May 6, 2015

Due to time constraints, some poems (listed in parentheses) will be skipped. A video of the performance was produced by local filmmaker Matt DeGennaro, and is available on YouTube at this address. Times for each poem are provided below. To watch individual poems, click on the poem start time.

Prologue / New England

• The Memory of a Summer Postcard      (0:00)
• A Sunday Afternoon Island Dream        (4:00)
• Boothbay Gray      (5:50)

San Francisco 

• To the End of Haight     (7:50)

Middle East 

• Waiting for Advent in Istanbul     (11:10)
• Egyptian Sunrise     (12:45)

Costa Rica

• The Night Music of San Rafael de Guatuso     (17:30)
• Jessica's Blessing     (20:00)
• (The Girl's Guava Tree)

Far East

• The Diminutive of Grace     (23:10)
• Yangtze Blues     (28:00)
• (Journey to Embarkation)

Epilogue

• To Go to Patagonia     (31:40)

The Athens Word of Mouth is a diverse open poetry community, meeting upstairs at the Globe the first Wednesday evening of each month. Open mike readings begin at 8:00 p.m. The featured reading is around 9:15. Visitors are always welcome.