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14 Jul ’25
  • Catullus 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13 & 51: Lesbia poems
  • Christian Gullette reads from Coachella Elegy
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  • Catullus 48 & 99: Juventius poems
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The Storm: Creation of a Poem

Don Yorty15 years ago10 months ago314 mins

… In Wuhan, China, summer of 2008, one stormy evening after my poetry workshop, Richard, a young scientist majoring in Physics, offered to walk me back to the hotel sharing his umbrella in the pouring rain as we made it up the steps built into the ascending mountain near the dormitories and the Philosophy Department…

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