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LVPD Poems Online

A sampling of poems and readings for your enjoyment.

screenshot of Lisken Van Pelt Dus from Beltway Poetry reading - August 2021

Individual Poems Read Aloud

Enjoy this selectioin of videos: 

​After the Dying (from How Many Hands to Home)

The Most Magnificent Ice Sculpture (from Beltway Poetry Quarterly)

West Stockbridge, 1942 (from What We're Made Of)

Taking My Leave (from What We're Made Of)

Escaping Quartet (spoken word piece inspired by Norman Rockwell)

Online Readings: Medicine for the Soul

Here are three videos from three seasons of a reading series curated by John Gillespie and hosted by the Stockbridge (MA) Library (50-55 minutes each):

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Medicine for the Soul (May 2021)

Inquiry: The Power of Poetry (December 2022)

Sparks in the Dark (May 2024)

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screenshot of Lisken Van Pelt Dus from Stockbridge Library reading - December 2022
screenshot of Lisken Van Pelt Dus from ESMA reading - June 2021

Group Reading

This reading took place in June 2021 at the conclusion of a weeklong poetry retreat I ran in western Massachusetts.

 

I read three poems (from 49:21 to 58:12):

  • Light (from What We're Made Of)

  • One of Those Towns Lined with Empty Factories (from How Many Hands to Home)

  • Loner Crow

Poems with Audio

Here's a selection of poems published online in the erstwhile journal Qarrtsiluni with audio recordings of me reading them:

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  • To the Empathetic Poet from the Aphasic

  • My Brief History of Crowds

  • Ash

  • Visiting the Burn Unit (from What We're Made Of)

  • La Virgen de la Candelaria

  • The Latch Once Lifted (from What We're Made Of)

  • The Lake Isn't a Life (from What We're Made Of)

  • Self-Portrait as Aquifer (from What We're Made Of)

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Image of a doorway with blue wall by Rowan Heuvel
composite image of four online journals containing poems by Lisken Van Pelt Dus

Selected Poems (text only)

Here's a sampling of poems published in some online journals:​

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