From the Fishouse

On May 4, 2006, From the Fishouse was pleased to present a reading by Christian Barter, author of The Singers I Prefer (CavanKerry Press, 2005), at Bowdoin College. The event, held at the Donald B. MacMillan House, was in conjuction with Bowdoin's College House system, and made possible through a generous grant by the Mellon Foundation.

Listen to the full reading (approximately 28 minutes)
or listen to the poems individually:

• Full Reading
• This Life
• Band Camp
• Poem
• On Making Love With You Again With Words Taken From an Article about Wilson's Quest to Form the League of Nations
• The Silence Shrouding the Country
• Linda Trying on Clothes
• To the Unborn
• Self Portrait in the Glass of a Painting
• If Only this Baroque Music Could Go On
• The Brest-Litovsk Treaty
• The 24th Motor Machine-Gun Battalion Being Inspected, 1917
• Selection of German Weapons Captured by the Canadians in Their Advance to Cabrai, 1918
• A Room with a View
• The Singers I Prefer
• On Hearing that you Feel Bad After Having Sex with Me
• The School Bus
• Can You