![Robert Bly during his reading at the University Club Tuesday night. ] JEFF WHEELER • jeff.wheeler@startribune.com Robert Bly headlined a group of four notable poets on Tuesday evening, April 15, 2014 at the Carol Connolly's monthly Readings by Writers event at the University Club in St. Paul. Bly is 87 and nearing the end of his long and venerable career.](https://arc.stimg.co/startribunemedia/NHOL3UVSZWHBPJX6OY3DYEBXVI.jpg?&w=1080)
Poet Robert Bly will be at Plymouth Congregational Church, 1900 Nicollet Av. S., Mpls., at 7 p.m. April 13 to launch his new book, "Like the New Moon I Will Live My Life." He will be joined in the reading by a multitude of friends, including poets Tony Hoagland, Freya Manfred, Jim Moore, Connie Wanek, Joyce Sutphen, Thomas R. Smith, Ed Bok Lee and others. The new collection, published by White Pine Press, was culled from out-of-print books, chapbooks and uncollected work spanning 50 years.
Here is one of the poems from the collection, reprinted with permission:
LATE MOON
The third week moon reaches its light over my father's farm,
Half of it dark now, in the west that eats it away.
The earth has rocks in it that hum at early dawn.
As I turn to go in, I see my shadow reach for the latch.
