Calitri to Read at Poetry on the Loose, Sat., 1/7, 4 p.m.
Steve Calitri will read his work at the next program in the Poetry on the Loose Reading/Performance Series. The event will be held at 7 West Street in Warwick at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 7. Enter by door on right side of building. Following the feature, others are welcome to read original work. Admission is free.
A Warwick resident and businessman who has been promoting the arts through his building at 7 West Street, Steve Calitri has been writing poetry off and on since the age of 19. He is attracted to the art of poetry, he says, because poetry is not a commercial art. “You may say there is a cottage industry around poetry, but nothing mainstream; poetry is not something that gives quick and easy gratification, like pop music, or candy. It needs to be eaten very slowly. A good poem is like a mountain. It needs to be pondered. You can’t just drive by it.”
Calitri is a co-founder of the College of Poetry in Warwick. The headline poem for his reading will be “Captain Eternity.”
Seductive
The slopes of this land
Could be seen as erotic
These eyes gliding up and down
Contours covered by a sheer negligee
Shadows from branches
Sunlight fingering bare grass tanned in the Autumn
Some swathes of ground still green from the oils of summer
The woods thick like a woman’s
Locks changing from auburn to purplish gray
But the land is less vain than a woman laying on a hillside
The rump of the grounds rising yet faithful in her seed laden skin
A woman not going anywhere and beckoning
The next Poetry on the Loose reading will be held February 4 and will feature authors appearing in the Wawayanda Review 2, the annual journal of the Northeast Poetry Center.
For further information, contact: William Seaton/ Poetry on the Loose, Inc. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (845) 294-8085.