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Epic Poetry Reading, Albany Poets Word Fest

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

Epic Poetry Reading, Albany Poets Word Fest, April 21, 2012 

Albany Poets News, (February 8, 2013) “If you were at the 2012 Albany Word Fest Open Mic at the Albany Public Library you will remember Frederick Glaysher and his epic poem The Parliament of Poets. His work certainly wowed the crowd at the library with the performance and the words themselves. …read an extended section from lunar epic “The Parliament of Poets,” with the 20th Century Afro-American poet Robert Hayden as guide.”

“I found myself sitting in my study, dozing
over a book, Cervantes’ Don Quixote,
surrounded by volumes of world classics….”

Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.

The entire reading is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL21F9D6C4DA6FE818

Read a free chapter, BOOK I, The Parliament of Poets: An Epic Poem

Frederick Glaysher

 

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Poetry Reading, Albany Word Fest

My reading from the fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets at the Albany Word Fest, Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Albany, New York, at the Albany Public Library. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher. From Book III, still on earth, in the midst of things… the birds and hoopoe, and so forth.

Frederick Glaysher, Albany Word Fest, April 21, 2012

https://youtu.be/CJ_xbSXbN7k

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Poetry Reading at the Albany Word Fest

Friends,

I’ll be reading from the fifth draft of my epic poem The Parliament of Poets at the 2012 Albany Word Fest, Saturday, April 21, 2012, 1:15 pm, in Albany, New York, at the Albany Public Library, 161 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12210. Main Library Large Auditorium. You’re invited!
https://www.albanypoets.com/wordfest/

For a previous excerpt, see my reading at the Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Buffalo, New York, March 24, 2012, from Book III, in medias res, on the moon. Copyright (c) 2012 Frederick Glaysher.

“Who needs warp drive when I’ve got Queen Mab,
My escort and midwife of my dreams.”

YouTube: https://youtu.be/XlWTzhNjIb4

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