Reads tagged with “SoundCloud”
The Decades-Old Classic That Became the Ultimate Pandemic Poem
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master.”
A Young Poet’s Love Letter to Earth and to the Double Courage of Facing a Broken Reality While Refusing to Cease Cherishing This Astonishing World in Its Brokenness
In praise of anemone and dust and “the smallest possible once before once.”
“Today, Another Universe”: Jane Hirshfield Reads Her Stunning Perspectival Poem of Consolation by Calibration
Steadying solace for those times when we “go to sleep in one world and wake in another.”
Immortality in Passing: Poet Lisel Mueller, Who Lived to 96, on What Gives Meaning to Our Ephemeral Lives
“What exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious.”
What You Need to Be Warm: Neil Gaiman Reads His Humanistic Poem for Refugees, Composed from a Thousand Definitions of Warmth from Around the World
“Sometimes it only takes a stranger, in a dark place, to hold out a badly-knitted scarf, to offer a kind word, to say we have the right to be here, to make us warm in the coldest season.”
Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
Spell to Be Said against Hatred: Amanda Palmer Reads Poet Jane Hirshfield’s Miniature Masterwork of Insistence, Persistence, and Compassionate Courage
“Until each breath refuses they, those, them…”
Between the Body and the Soul: Neri Oxman Reads Walt Whitman
A timeless song of praise for our belonging with “Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees,” with “night of the large few stars.”
How to Live and How to Die
“Leave something of sweetness and substance in the mouth of the world.”
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