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Bigger Than They Appear Reading summary (Part 1)

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In 2012, the Lexington Public Library recorded and produced a reading held at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. This event featured readings from Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems.

For the full list of videos, click here.

The poets were asked to read one of their poems as well as someone else’s. Below are the poets, the time stamp where they appear in the video, and the poems they read. The emcee is Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.

NOTE: The anthology was dedicated to the Memory of Mark Russell Brown. In this video, Katerina discusses who he was at 08:59 and a poem of his is read by K. Nicole Brown.

“Mute Zoo” by Don Boes

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Bigger Than They AppearMy advice, like I know anything,
is to dedicate the entire day to the gallery.

Regard the clay bull from Peru
and the jade serpent from China

and the recumbent hippo
from the Middle Kingdom—

a mute and motionless zoo,
older and wiser than you.

-Don Boes,
Bigger Than They Appear: 
Anthology of Very Short Poems
(Accents Publishing)

There are sharp flashes of light, moments when the miraculous world reveals itself to us swiftly, fully. And, because hte mind is also a miracle, the lucky words sometimes arrive to capture that revelation and through it witness what it means to be alive. That is the girft of this gorgeous collection.

–Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

Don Boes appears in the anthology What Comes Down To Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets (University Press of Kentucky). He teaches at Bluegrass Community and Technical College.