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Under the Yew Tree - Fortnightly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. Today we're looking at four poems by Rainer Maria Rilke on the topic of spring. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/undertheyewtreepod/

Published 03/19/21

Under the Yew Tree

Published 03/19/21

Audre Lorde

Under the Yew Tree - Fortnightly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. Today we're looking at "Movement Song" by Audre Lorde and considering her life, as well as the Harlem Renaissance. Find the poem at Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42581/movement-song A playlist of Queer Harlem Blues: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4uBtRmOGriPeRl4EGBWEQy?si=LzzbGNigRHG8UFrbjnpHoA

Published 03/03/21

Ocean Vuong

Under the Yew Tree - Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. Today we're looking at a poem by Ocean Vuong, and thinking about Mark Rothko, and America, and disaster, and grief, and art. Full text of the poem can be found at...

Published 02/17/21

Walt Whitman

Under the Yew Tree - Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. This week, Walt Whitman's 'A Noiseless Patient Spider', and Matisse's 'Icarus'. Three animators interpret this poem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jCw8ydqkrg

Published 02/10/21

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Under the Yew Tree - Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. This week I'm thinking about one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's wonderful love sonnets, Sonnet 22 - 'When our two souls..." Elizabeth Barrett Browning endured a...

Published 02/04/21

Yeats

Under the Yew Tree - Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. This week, Yeat's 'The Second Coming' - a dark vision for the future.

Published 01/28/21

Introduction

Under the Yew Tree - weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week. This week - an introduction.

Published 01/28/21