Reads tagged with “SoundCloud”
Sylvia Plath Reads “Spinster” in a Rare BBC Recording
A subversive lamentation of how our compulsion for control empties life of love.
David Whyte on Vulnerability, Presence, and How Surrendering to the Uncontrollable Magnifies Your Life
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
Billy Collins Reads His Homage to Aristotle
A wonderful ode to how the great Greek philosopher shaped the paradigm of storytelling.
Eudora Welty Reads Her Comic and Quietly Heartbreaking Masterpiece “Why I Live at the P.O.”
“Here I am, and here I’ll stay. I want the world to know I’m happy.”
Strung Out In Heaven: Amanda Palmer on Patronage vs. Commerce, Art as Non-Ownable Nourishment, and the Story Behind Her Bowie String Quartet Tribute
“People don’t trust you without getting to know you and watching you work and seeing you make good on your word.”
James Baldwin on the Artist’s Struggle for Integrity and How It Illuminates the Universal Experience of What It Means to Be Human
“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us. Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leaders don’t. Only poets.”
Patti Smith Reads Her Beautiful Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe About How He Taught Her What It Means to Be an Artist
“You drew me from the darkest period of my young life, sharing with me the sacred mystery of what it is to be an artist.”
Poet Sarah Kay on How We Measure Creative Success, Being a Working Artist in Today’s World, and the Only Antidote to Our Endemic Fear of Missing Out
…and a wonderful fable about the three different ways of relating to one’s work, each essential for the whole of art.
Weathering: Poet Fleur Adcock’s Sublime Eulogy for Growing Older
An ode to the art of growing indifferent to mirrors and to what your soul may wear over its complexion.
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