Other People's Poems

05/03/2026

Here's a list of the poets/poems/poets from OPP Vol. 46!
Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.

Photos thanks to Kate Byroade!

Thanks, see you on June 5th!

Vol. 46 - 5/1/26 - 8 LOOFAHS

Chion Wolf - A Rabbi's Proverb
Ron Marq - I Don't Want a Small Life by Mary Oliver
Lindsay Ewing - Five In Six Boys by Hollie McNish
Yanni - An Artist
Abby - Does Marge Have Friends? by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Matthew F. - Captain Kennedy by Neil Young - LOOFAH
Sierra - A Turkey Warning by Anonymous - LOOFAH
Kate Byroade - Aliens Explaining Why They Are Visiting Earth by Andrea Gibson
Dylan T. Mackinnon - First of May by Jon Colton - LOOFAH
Storm - Every Time I Ever Said I Want To Die by Andrea Gibson
Esben - Once More, The Round by Theodore Roethke
Julie S - La Noche En La Isla by Pablo Neruda
Casey - Madmen by Billy Collins
Kerry Kennedy - Thread by Essex Hemphill - LOOFAH
Emilie Finn - Conversation with a Stone by Wisława Szymborska
Bob W - Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service - LOOFAH
Toni - This is for the Ones by A Shantal
Mary Kate - The Rain Coat by Ada Limón
Andrew - Questions from a Worker who Reads by Bertolt Brecht
Val - Having a Great Time Being Transgender in America Lately by Jackie Sabbagh
Xander - Female CEO by Jackie Sabbagh
Mark H. - The True Ballad of John Bateman by Jim Hilsdon - LOOFAH
Julia - Take Them With You by Donna Ashworth
Laura Martineau - Messages Back Home by Ananya Venkateswaran
Russell - What i know of when Times are Dark by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Cruz - I Cultivate a White Rose by José Martí - LOOFAH
Leo - In Lieu of Flowers by Shawna Lemay
Jonathan - A Poem About Crows by Ellen Arnstein
Stephanie Silver - This is My Wish For You by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark B - Language by Boys Like Girls
Avery - The Fairies by William Allingham
Nora - Invictus by William Ernest Henley - LOOFAH
Bee - I've Got You by Camp Cope

04/06/2026

This Mary Oliver documentary looks truly wonderful - and multifaceted! Airing on PBS this summer! 🩷

US, Feature Documentary, 91 minutes, 2026If poetry had a pop icon, Mary Oliver would be it. From a lonely childhood to literary fame, her life was defined by...

04/04/2026

Here's a list of the poets/poems/poets from OPP Vol. 45!

Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.

Photo of me and my mom by Tony Troiano! 🩷

Thanks, see you on May 1!

Vol. 45 - 4/3/26 - 9 LOOFAHS

Chion Wolf - Jailbreak by Maya Spector
Divine - If I Could Tell You by WH Auden
Sarah Johnson - poem to my uterus by Lucille Clifton / poem for my reproductive system by Emma from Virginia
Chris Polansky - The Charm of 5:30 by David Berman
Joe O'Brien - I'm Dating a Man Who's Married by Aaron Smith - LOOFAH
Erin Shapland - Deepest Darkest Secrets by Sam Rossi
Pamela Morrison-Wolf - Joy Chose You by Donna Ashworth
Nora - No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim - LOOFAH
Storm - Work to be Done by MaMuse - LOOFAH
Dylan T Mackinnon - It's Going to be Okay by Matthew Inman (The Oatmeal)
Esben - Brontosaurus by Gail Kredenser / The Lizard by John Gardener
Ron Marq - On The Bust of a Barmaid from Yale (limerick) - LOOFAH
Yanni - Word paintings (collection)
Tristan - I Love you but I'm So Tired by Megan Fennelly
Judy Garfinkel - Late Spring as Usual by Marie Ponsot
Paul DiMauro - Captain Stratton's Fancy by John Masefield - LOOFAH
Krystaline G. - Ophelia by Henrikas Radauskas
Margie - Here I Love You by Pablo Neruda
Kim D - Another Elegie by Jericho Brown
Sarah N - Stings by Sylvia Plath
Toni - Daytime Drunk & Driving on Empty by Sarah Johnson
Xander - Of the Empire by Mary Oliver
Shea - A Pantry for a Sleeping World by Leanne Norms
Lucy Ferriss - Kiss Me Like a Limpkin by Elizabeth Bradfield - LOOFAH
Sierra - In Event of Moon Disaster by William Safire / Publish This! By Sarah Johnson
Sarah M - The Ender, The Beginner by May Sarton - LOOFAH
Julie - This is Water (excerpt) by David Foster Wallace
Emily Jones - If I Had Three Lives by Sarah Russell
Laura Martineau - A Word on Statistics by Wislawa Szyborska
Jonathan Carter - A Dozen, A Gross, and A Score by Leigh Mercer - LOOFAH
Jazmine - The Tax Poem by Unknown
Cruz - Bilingual Blues by Gustavo Pérez Firmat - LOOFAH
Mike McGarry - The Host of the Air by William Butler Yeats
Stephanie Silver - Tornado for Andrea by Megan Falley
Becky - As I Walked Out One Evening by WH Auden
Barb Smith - Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare

03/17/2026

Since you love OPP, I know you will ALSO LOVE Show & Tell!

Seats are limited, so grab your tickets soon! See you at Little Red Barn Brewers on Wednesday, April 8th!

Join host Chion Wolf and the Audacious team at Little Red Barn Brewers for another unforgettable LIVE Show & Tell!

03/07/2026

Here is a list of the poets/poems/poets from OPP Vol. 44!

Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.

Thanks, see you on April 3!

Vol. 44 - 3/6/26 - 8 LOOFAHS

Chion Wolf - Instructions before visiting Earth By James McCrae
Stephanie Silver - Cherished Loved Ones by Paul Sebastian
Caitlin Riley - Story by Jane Yolen
Jessica Severin de Martinez - Paris by Luisa Muradyan
Sarah Johnson - What you wish you'd said to the high school guidance counselor by Andrea Gibson
Ebsen Burns & Anthus - In the Tonyan there was no ozone (song) - LOOFAH
Nora Pasco - The Garden by Esben Burns
Pamela Morrison-Wolf - Anthem by Leonard Cohen
Willow - A guide to reading trans literature by Jennifer Espinoza
Toni - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
Erin Shapland - The Turbo Encabulator by John Quick
Margie K. - We Are Not Poor by Rilke
Ron Marq - The Call To The Green Man by Unknown
Krystaline G. - A Grain of Salt by Al Zolynas
Dylan Mackinnon - John Brown by Frederick Douglass
Paul DiMauro - This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin - LOOFAH
Joe O'Brien - O Who is that young sinner by AE Housman - LOOFAH
Ashlyn - "Les Feuilles d'automne" (Autumn Leaves) by Victor Hugo - LOOFAH
Michael Veillette - The world is both burning and blooming by Karen Salmansohn
Michael T. - Breaking Surface by Mark Nepo
Yanni - Other Peoples Hell
Lindsay Ewing - Book Group by Brian Bilston
Mara - Station Eleven monologue by Emily St. John Mandel - LOOFAH
Peter Kunz - Tap Out by Edgar Kunz
Nancy Mackinnon - Questionnaire by Wendell Berry
Cruz - We have not long to love by Tennessee Williams - LOOFAH
Caitlin D - she being brand new by ee cummings
Lucy Ferriss - This Is My Song by Lloyd Stone and Georgia Harkness - LOOFAH
Carl DelMolino - Reluctance by Robert Frost
Sierra - General, your tank is a powerful vehicle by Bertolt Brecht
Russell - Initiation Song from the Finders' Lodge by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mary Kate - You must always be drunk by Charles Baudelaire - LOOFAH
Steve Goldhamer - Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich by Shel Silverstein
Abby - Dog Kibble: A Villanelle by Charles Baxter's dog, Tasha
Judy Garfinkel - We have come to be danced by Jewel Mathieson
Bob Williams - Song of the Wandering Angus by Yeats
Lily Belle - Explaining my depression to my mother a conversation by Sabrina Benaim

02/28/2026

OPP friends! (Especially Lindsay Ewing) You'll love this!

Audacious producer and OPP regular, Jessica Martinez, asked John H. Spencer (original founder of the Scottish Highland Festival & Games in CT) what he would eat if he could go back to Scotland.

HAGGIS.

Which is a traditional Scottish dish made from minced sheep’s heart, liver, and lungs mixed with onion, oats, suet, spices, and stock, then cooked inside a sheep’s stomach. 😬

Which led to this beautiful resuscitation of Robert Burns's poem, "Address to Haggis".

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Listen to the whole episode 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 https://www.ctpublic.org/show/audacious-with-chion-wolf/2026-02-27/audacious-scotland-cts-highland-festival-games-plus-quarrelsome-dames-seek-justice-for-witches

02/07/2026

Here is a list of the poets/poems/poets from OPP Vol. 43!
Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.

This photo of my brother Paul is from January, but I wanted to share it anyway!

Thanks, see you on March 6!

Vol 43 - 2/6/26 - 7 LOOFAHS

Chion Wolf - The Temptation of Adam by Josh Ritter
Yanni - War Paintings
Georg Papp - December at Yase by Gary Snyder
Sandy McKenna - I Dream A World by Langston Hughes - LOOFAH
Stephanie Silver - The rage you are feeling by Nikita Gill / Hold Fast to Dreams by Langston Hughes - LOOFAH
Sarah Johnson - The Little Things by Andrea Gibson
Toni Ann - This Is Just To Say by William Carlos Williams
Pamela Morrison-Wolf - The Guest House by Rumi
Sarah Nicols - Miss Salome by Jan Bottiglieri
Lindsay Ewing - Sunflowers by Harry Baker
Paul DiMauro - Missing by Ron Marq
Joe O'Brien - Three Times The Love by Paul Dimauro
Rom Marq - What We All Need by Joe O'Brien
Tristan Avery Vetter - The Choice of Tonight by Megan Fennelly
Michael Veillette - Ode to the Apostrophe / Dogs are better than ants / The eyelash by Henry Gibson - LOOFAH
Cori Breslauer - The energy flows forth on each heartbeat by James Neehouse - LOOFAH
Kate Byroade - Thursday Morning, Quick Care by Sam Helmick
Casey Rousseau - Reading the guest book by Billy Collins
Mississippi - A Change is gonna Come by Sam Cooke - LOOFAH
Bob Williams - Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
Dawn Ennis - On learning to dissect fetal pigs by Renee Good
Taylor Doyle - Bygones by Marina Keegan
Russell Halley - Everything Hurts by Amanda Gorman
Nancy Mackinnon - We are one family by Amanda Gorman
Dylan Mackinnon - Untitled by Bill Waterston
Laura Martineau - Book Power by Gwendolyn Brooks
Mary - Two-Headed Calf by Laura Galvin
Lily Cummings - i carry your heart by ee cummings
Mark Belliste - Firebreathing by Daytrader
Mary Kate - In your light I learn how to love by Rumi / F**k the poets of old (Tumblr) - LOOFAH
Judy Garfinkel - The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
Storm - How the worst day of my life became the best by Andrea Gibson - LOOFAH

01/11/2026

If you've been to OPP, you've probably experienced hearts popping out of your eyes and ears when Lindsay Ewing steps up to the mic.

WELL HAVE I GOT GREAT NEWS FOR YOU!!!

He will be at Hartford Flavor Cocktail Parlour on Pratt Street to host the Robert Burns Dinner Experience! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

You’ll get multiple gifts in one night: food and drink in the insanely gorgeous cocktail parlor of our beloved Hartford Flavor Co., plus bagpipes, poetry, and Lindsay’s greatness as he celebrates the beloved Scottish poet Robert Burns.

If your heart just skipped a beat like mine did, go ahead and get your tickets. It’s bound to sell out!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1410598027386736/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22home%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

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01/03/2026

Here is a list of the poets/poems/poets from OPP Vol. 42!
Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.
Thanks, see you on February 6!

Vol 42 - 1/2/26 - 27 LOOFAHS

Chion Wolf - Welcoming Prayer by Father Thomas Keating - LOOFAH
Yanni Sembrakis - You lost that lovin feeling by The Righteous Brothers / You’re the Devil in Disguise by Elvis Presley - LOOFAH
Eric J - Someone Ate The Baby by Shel Silverstein
Dylan Mackinnon - Ode To Joy by Friedrich Schiller - LOOFAH
Paul Gladis - En Vierno Tu Que Duermes by Vanesa Perez-Sauquillo - LOOFAH
Cori - For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway - LOOFAH
Krystaline - 220 by t.A.T.u. - LOOFAH
Storm - Gonna Let Life Move Me by Scott Kalechstein Grace - LOOFAH
Nora Pasco - Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile by Pádraig Pearse - LOOFAH
Kate Byroade - There was a little girl By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - LOOFAH
Sarah Johnson - The Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan - LOOFAH
Toni-Ann - Johnny Be Fair by Buffy Sainte-Marie - LOOFAH
Ron Marq - He Screams For He Does Not Know / Frozen Dream by Shel Silverstein - LOOFAH
Lindsay Ewing - Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns - LOOFAH
Sarah N - Aren't you having a good time here? By Kathleen Allen Conway
Pamela Morrison-Wolf - St. Francis Prayer
Nancy Mackinnon - Souvenirs by Dan Fogelberg - LOOFAH
Joe O'Brien - To the harbor master by Frank O'Hara - LOOFAH
Paul Dimauro - The Naming of Cats by T. S. Eliot - LOOFAH
Casey Rousseau - The Monet Conundrum by Billy Collins - LOOFAH
Sierra - Rewriting Icarus by Unknown - LOOFAH
Krista - "No Time at All" from Pippin - LOOFAH
Erin Shapland - This Year by The Mountain Goats - LOOFAH
Mississippi - Baby Teeth in a Landfill by Andrea Gibson
Tristan - The winter of listening by David Whyte
Julie S - There's a certain Slant of light by Emily Dickinson - LOOFAH
Mary Kate - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus - LOOFAH
Suzanne - First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay - LOOFAH
Judy Garfinkel - The gods of left field by Tom Hirons
Cruz - Toco tu boca by Julio Cortázar - LOOFAH
Mark - In the forest of symbols by Sandra M. Gilbert
Steve Goldhamer - New Frontier by Donald Fagen - LOOFAH
Bob Williams - Dust of Snow by Robert Frost - LOOFAH
David Shapiro - 3 Ways to Mean It by Brian Boylan
Gina - The Eagle by Alfred Lloyd Tennyson / We Shall Be Known by MaMuse - LOOFAH
Esben - A clutch of spinachickens / Poor Avocadodos by Jack Prelutsky
Zara - Bless the Moon by Warsan Shire

12/26/2025

See you on Jan 2! 🥰

12/09/2025

Here is a list of the poets/poems/poets from the last OPP!
Forgive the formatting, holler if you have corrections.
Thanks, see you on January 2!

Vol. 41 - 12/7/25 - 13 LOOFAHS - A NEW RECORD!!!

Chion Wolf - I Feel God in This Chili’s Tonight By Lyndsay Rush AKA Mary Oliver’s Drunk Cousin
Ron Marq - These I Can Promise by Mark Twain
Yanni - Other people’s philosophies
Jessica Severin de Martinez - On putting up a Christmas tree the week after Halloween by Katie Luxom
Michael Veillette - A Creation Story by Joy Harjo - LOOFAH
Sarah Johnson - We will become silhouettes by The Postal Service - LOOFAH
Lindsay Ewing - Night by Michael Hoffman
Pamela Morrison-Wolf - Step by Step (author unknown)
Stephanie Silver - River Road by Richard Forester
Toni - Jenny Kissed Me by Lee Hunt - LOOFAH
Sarah N - The Gold Ballroom by Dorothea Lasky
Cori - Rainbow Passage by Grant Fairbanks - LOOFAH
Carly Henderson - Anything Worth Holding On To by Cynthia Erivo and Scott Alan - LOOFAH
Sierra Harrop - I Will Love You Until by So Good (band)
Laura Martineau - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens
Dylan Mackinnon - Dreams by Dolores O'Riordan - LOOFAH
Jude - The Snot Plot by Jim Reid - LOOFAH
Sachem Mackinnon - Boy Scout Law / Outdoor Code / Scout Oath - LOOFAH
Angela Scott - What do women want by Kim Addonizio
Kate Byroade - My Mother at the Window by Gerry Murphy
Casey Rousseau - Winter Syntax by Billy Collins
Nora - A Child’s Christmas In Wales by Dylan Thomas - LOOFAH
Matthew Snyder - Fireflies by Mary Oliver
Mara Suttmann-Lea - Ode To Darkness by Lau Noah - LOOFAH
Krystaline G. - The Forest of Anykščiai by Antanas Baranauskas
Steve Goldhamer - With his mouth full of food by Shel Silverstein
Melanie B - Mother to Son by Langston Hughes
Mark Hilsdon - Poem from the Gulistān by Saadi Shirazi - LOOFAH
Judy Garfinkel - An Optimism by Cameron Awkward-Rich
Storm - Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - LOOFAH
Lindsay Vigue - You’re not for everyone by Donna Ashworth
Julie St. - Your Hands by Pablo Neruda
Barbara Goldhamer - Notes on the Spring Holidays, III, [Hanukkah] by Charles Reznikoff
Esmond Burns - Nothing gold can stay by Robert Frost - LOOFAH