For the Winners List, double click on 2010 Winners and Festival. For text of the poem, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. Thank you.
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| "Getting to Your House, " Grand Prize Winner by Art Schwartz of Rockville Center, New York, read by his brother, Bill Schwartz. |
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| "Getting to Your House" by Art Schwartz as danced by Natica Angilly's Poetic Dance Theater Company. |
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| "Getting to Your House" by Art Schwartz as performed at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum |
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| Art Schwartz's "Getting to Your House" as performed at the 17th Annual Dancing Poetry Festival, September 18, 2010 |
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| Bill Schwartz accepts the awards, congratulations, ovations and bows for his brother, Art Schwartz |
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GETTING TO YOUR HOUSE
By Art Schwartz, Rockville Center, NY
2010 Grand Prize Winner
Of all the things I know,
I think the best
is how to get to your house
through the winding alley
to the boulevard,
and then across the lot,
and then the streets.
The firehouse,
the market place
the school all urge me on,
they aren't only objects anymore;
they tell me where I am,
they say I haven't lost my way
and that I still remember.
Even so, I worry
that I might forget a turn
and then become confused
in noise and smoke
among the factories
and find myself in
some strange, other place.
I know it's foolishness
to worry I'll forget
a thing like that which is
myself, and part of me forever,
and yet I often think
I might forget the most
important thing I know.
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