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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I will be reading at Florence Griswold Museum on Friday, April 3 with Marilyn Nelson, help fund Soul Mountain Writer's Retreat!

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Molly Lynn Watt
Molly Lynn Watt carries a pen & a notebook as she travels, whether to Harvard Square, China, Ireland or Alaska to shape her adventures into poems, essays and stories illustrated with photos. She writes daytrip articles for the Occasional Moose published in Peterborough, N.H. She is a founding resident of Cambridge Cohousing, a progressive educator and an activist for peace and justice. She curates the monthly Fireside Poetry Readings, in its ninth season. Ibbetson Street Press released Shadow People, a book of Molly's poems, in 2007. Molly edited the Bagelbard Anthology 1, 2 and 3, all published by Ibbeston Street Press & available at Lulu.com. Molly and her husband, Dan Lynn Watt turned excerpts from Dan’s parents' letters to each other in 1937 into a political love story reading theater performance interlaced with folksongs. They have performed “George and Ruth – Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War” for six years in the New England and New York with folksinger Tony Saletan and accordion player Sylvia Miskoe. The CD is available from CD-Baby, Amazon or this website.
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Shadow People

Shadow People
Released by Ibbetson Street, 2007

A Poem to Share

JAZZ RIFF

I want to write a poem

the way a jazz man

composes on his feet

sways in rhythm

taps a syncopated beat

like Krupa drives drums

I want to whisper

slave song sorrows

wail field hand hollers

howl and growl

to a bottle neck slide

pulse with rage and heat

rap a wild wind run

like Louie on his trumpet

hit a 100 high Cs

to blast away injustice

I want to bend contort riff

twist and pound like thunder

crack and shatter like glass

drip blood in the gutter

scat with Ella

to the moon

-Molly Lynn Watt

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2009 (16)
    • ►  October (5)
      • Poetry of Resilience at Mass Poetry Festival Oct 1...
      • Molly Lynn Watt Reads Poetry of Resilience at Mass...
      • Jim Kates & Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell feature Tu...
      • The Fireside Reading Series 2009-2010 Schedule
      • Spread the word! Mass Poetry Festival 15 days away...
    • ►  September (4)
      • Catherine Wang Hsu and Li Mo Feature Tuesday Septe...
      • Old Manse concert features sounds of Woody Guthrie...
      • Molly Lynn Watt reads at first presentation of The...
      • Molly Lynn Watt, Elizabeth Quilan and Edie Aronowi...
    • ►  August (2)
      • Where Have I Been?
      • Lydia Awarded Gates Millenium!
    • ▼  March (2)
      • I will be reading at Florence Griswold Museum on F...
      • Ellen Steinbaum & David Surette Read at Fireside M...
    • ►  February (2)
      • I'll be reading on Feb. 19th from Shadow People!
      • FIRESIDE READING: Is That Your Child? Florence Lad...
    • ►  January (1)
      • PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY: Obama's poet evokes 'our ...
  • ►  2008 (14)
    • ►  December (3)
      • We Three Invite You!
      • Suzanne Berger and Ifeanyi Menkiti
      • George & Ruth: Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civi...
    • ►  November (5)
      • Len Solo and Barbara Thomas at Fireside Nov. 18th!...
      • Poets read at NoCa Art Opening!
      • Shadow People:Poems by Molly Lynn Watt Reviewed by...
      • Fireside Readings Series Schedule 2008-2009
      • Where You Will Find Me!
    • ►  September (3)
      • Quinlan, Watt, Holder & Page read at James's Gate ...
      • Fireside hosts Chris Brandt & John Hildebidle
      • Cambridge Co-Ho hosts the Bagel Bards at Fireside
    • ►  May (1)
      • THREE HERE NOW—a dance performance
    • ►  April (2)
      • At The Art of Words Festival at Harvard on May 3, ...
      • Rochlin and Daley read on April 29, 2008

Other Sites of Interest

  • ALBA Songs, Letters Sp. Civil War
  • Birds, Beer & Baseball in Boston Globe
  • Brian Flanagan from Dublin
  • Brookline Booksmith Series
  • Cervena Barva Press
  • Civil Rights Veterns
  • Dan Lynn Watt's Blog
  • Doug Holder interviews me
  • Doug Holder's Blog
  • Ellen Steinbaum - City Type
  • English Country Dancing Memoir
  • Fireside Readings Website
  • Folk Song Society of Greater Boston
  • Hugh Fox Reviews Shadow People
  • Jazz Riff on YouTube
  • Joan Green/Bobby Brown
  • Logo Learning, Strategies for Assessing Content
  • Lowell Girls' Offering-poem
  • Memories Boston CDS Center
  • Moira Lynn Flanagan's Comics
  • New Paradigms in Classroom Research (Eric)
  • NoCa Open Studios 2008
  • Order Bagels with the Bards - 1
  • Order Bagels with the Bards -. 2
  • Order George & Ruth
  • Order Shadow People
  • Order Shadow People or George & Ruth
  • Poem-Lowell Girls Offering
  • Teacher Research, Action Research
  • The William Joiner Center
  • Wilderness House Literary Review
  • World Fellowship