“…an old sailor,/
Drunk and asleep in his boots,/
Catches tigers/
In red weather.”
-Wallace Stevens from “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock”
Buying Wine- Alexander Long
The Way Dean Young Talks about Wine- Tony Hoagland
Fireflies at Midnight- Sebastian Mathews
A Wedding Toast- Richard Wilbur
The Fine Print on a Label of Non-Alcohol Beer- Adrian Lewis
The Reasonable Thing to Do- Robert Pfeiffer
A Glass of Beer- James Stevens (Read by James Wright)
Beer Can- The Colin L. Orchestra
We Real Cool- Gwendolyn Brooks
A Drowning- Katie Chapel
Band Camp- Christian Barter
Self Portrait with Sadness, Wild Turkey, and Dennis Johnson- Mathew Dickman
Mirror- Mark Strand
A Poem in which My Father is Not the Villain- Debra Ager
My Papa’s Waltz- Theodore Roethke (Read by Philip Levine)
Alan Dugan’s Love Song I and Thou- Alan Dugan (Read by Leon Stokesbury)
Just Another Bar Song- Clop
Her Lover Gone to Buy a Drink, Perhaps- Andrew Cosma
Bio to the Age of 30 with Men, Alcohol and Drugs- Susan Brown
The Country Singer’s Ex-Wife Sober in Mendocino County, California- Carrie Jerrell
Still Drunk, Still Crazy, Still Blue- Scott H. Byron
Carol Burnett Inebriated- Katie Fesuk
Disillusionment of Ten O’clock- Wallace Stevens (read by Ann Louderbach)
Ian at the Waiter’s Party Out Behind the Bar, Breadloaf- Sebastian Mathews
The Luncheon of the Boating Party- Leon Stokesbury
Yeah !… life is like riding a bicycle. You will not fall unless you stop pedaling!!…