Reads tagged with “SoundCloud”
The Mushroom Hunters: Neil Gaiman’s Feminist Poem About Science, Read by Amanda Palmer
An ode to humanity’s unheralded originators of the scientific method.
Poetry as Protest and Sanctuary: Jane Hirshfield’s Magnificent Poem Against the Silencing of Science and the Assault on Nature
“The facts were told not to speak / and were taken away. / The facts, surprised to be taken, were silent.”
Cynthia Nixon Reads Emily Dickinson’s “While I Was Fearing It, It Came”
“The trying on the utmost, / The morning it is new, / Is terribler than wearing it / A whole existence through.”
An Anthem Against Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s Piercing and Prescient 1914 Protest Poem
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men.”
When the Sky Is No More Than Remembered Light: Mark Strand Reads His Poignant Poem “The End”
“Not every man knows what is waiting for him, or what he shall sing / when the ship he is on slips into darkness, there at the end.”
Gwendolyn Brooks on Vulnerability as Strength and Her Advice to Writers
“Wherever life can grow, it will. It will sprout out, and do the best it can.”
Poems of Space: Pioneering Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell Reads “Halley’s Comet” by Stanley Kunitz
An ode to the transcendent meeting point of outer space and inner space.
Working Together: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte’s Beautiful Ode to Our Mutuality with the World
“We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again.”
Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness”
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
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