A (partial) recording of my reading with Luisa Caycedo-Kimura at the Gloucester Writers Center on July 17th, 2025. Luisa read from her wonderful new book All Were Limones while I read from a manuscript in progress.
My set list (such as it is):
“across the table” (excerpt) [time: 2:37]
“What else can I say when this lady says it all so well? Just…I think of you.” [time: 3:50]
“midwifery” [time: 5:50]
“you’d get over it” [time: 7:36]
“Gloucester Harbor | 78 “ [time: 8:35]
I don’t read longer poems at poetry readings. However, I composed some of my longest poems in said the Frog to the scorpion. Months ago, I made an intention to record these poems because I slaved over them and wanted my physical voice attached to them as they are to the poems I read aloud regularly.
So here is a 13 min reading of longer poems from said the Frog to the scorpion
Poems:
1. "when asked why I believed Her"
2. "who She is" (I screwed up the title in the video)
3. “when asked about toxic amnesia”
4. “take your pick”
5. “when asked why I won't”
And yes, there are a lot of squirrels behind me...
In honor of Black History Month, Valentine’s Day, and the publication of my new collection, here is a five minute reading from said the Frog to the scorpion and one other poem.
Poems read in the video (the first four appear in said the Frog to the scorpion):
Hevel
when asked what it’s like to love Her
at some point
