Joanna Klink: A Blazing Intensity

Poetry Centered

Joanna Klink curates poems that blend dream and waking, sparking ordinary life with visionary fire. She shares Jon Anderson wrestling with the desire to walk away (“In Autumn”), Sherwin Bitsui’s haunting epic of water (“Flood Song”), and Linda Gregg’s dreamscape of life without loneliness (“Alma to Her Sister”). Klink closes by reading her poem “On Diminishment,” an intimate, interior landscape of silences and withheld speech.

You can find the full recordings of Anderson, Bitsui, and Gregg reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:
Jon Anderson (1984)
Sherwin Bitsui, as part of “Multilingual Poetry of the Southwest” (2010)
Linda Gregg (1981)

Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Jon Anderson's "In Autumn" (00:01:11)

3. Sherwin Bitsui's "Flood Song" (excerpt) (00:07:33)

4. Linda Gregg's "Alma to Her Sister" (00:13:54)

5. Joanna Klink reads "On Diminishment" (00:19:28)