On September 21, 2019, Lighthouse welcomed back former Denver Poet Laureate and Beacon Award for Excellence in Teaching instructor Chris Ransick for a book release and homecoming celebration. Chris read from his latest collection of poems, Mummer Prisoner Scavenger Thief, as well as from his numerous other books. Prior to the reading, we recorded a number of Chris's friends and former students reading their favorite poems of his; their recordings precede Chris's reading on this podcast, which can be found at the bottom of this page.
Table of Contents
0:35
“Dream at the Intersection,” “Sunday Morning at the corner of Lost and Forgotten”
—Roger Wehling
4:22
“Does the Bear Own Roger?” “Canoe Canoe”
—Gail Benezra
8:19
“Kelsey on the Swing,” “To a friend on the Death of Her Mother”
—Roxanne Banks Malia
10:28
“Imagination Man,” “Coomb Song”
—Harriot Stratton
16:00
“Write as if You Have Something to Say”
—Kirsten Morgan
20:58
“Dream of the Author”
—Kim O’Connor
23:15
“What the Houseplant Said,” “Liminal Hymnal,” “Ghost in the Wen”
—Dee Casalaina
26:40 seconds
“Cooking Lesson,” “Why I Gave Away my Wings”
—Shirley Sullivan
30:53 seconds
“Driving Nails by Hand,” “Oil and Water”
—Kathleen Willard
35:01
“Elegy for Rosa”
—Carolyn Jennings
36:58
“Dream of the Skydiver,” “I take the Kids to Putah Creek in Winter”
—J Diego Frey
41:40
“Misfortune Cookies,” “Before the Forest”
—Ginny Hoyle
45:10
“Bread and Anger: A Prayer,” “A Friend Stops By to Say She’s Dead”
—Joy Roulier Sawyer
48:58
“Walking Into the Storm,” “Oblation”
—Martha Kalin
51:55
“When the Buzzards Return to Crestone,” “Here, She Said”
—Connie Zumpf
54:42
“Dream of the Leaving”
—Joe Hutchison
56:40 seconds
“I Will Not Argue with the Cucumber Plant”
—Dan Manzanares
58:38 seconds
“What The Boy I Was Tells the Man I Am”
—Michael Henry
61:20
“Ataraxia”
—Annette Taylor
62:35
Ken Weaver
“Encounter” (by Roger Wehling)
“Does the Bear Own Roger?”
64:58
“Mother, Dying”
David J Rothman
66:40
Chris Ransick Reading
At Lighthouse Writers Workshop
September 21, 2019
