On behalf of all of us here at Café Venezia, we certainly hope that you are enjoying our setting along the Grand Canal and the Ponte Rialto. It is a pleasure serving you, and you seem to enjoy our new establishment, too. Proprietors Mike Cane and Vince DeMiero have decided to brew a mean cup of coffee now and then as well as serve up some piping hot poetry.
Here’s a copy of the Café Venezia Menu in case you misplaced yours or if you were absent:
• Café Venezia Menu.pdf
Here is the information from Mr. Ummel about how to read a poem. It’s in .pdf format, so you should be able to read it on any computer:
• How To Read A Poem.pdf
Here are links to some of the poems and poets we have encountered at Café Rialto:
• Walt Whitman
• Taylor Mali
• Billy Collins
• Robert Frost
• William Shakespeare
• Stephen Dunn
• Edith Sitwell
• Alfred Howard
• Shel Silverstein
• Gil Scott-Heron
• Yusef Komanyakaa
• Emily Dickinson
• Gary Soto
• Langston Hughes
• Howard Nemerov
• Linda Pastan
• Edwin Arlington Robinson
• Theodore Roethke
• A.E. Housman
and check out these sites…
• Poetry Foundation.org
• Poets.org
• Poetry.org
and here are two clips from famed American poet and author, Maya Angelou…
• And still I rise
• President Clinton’s Inauguration
more to come…
