The Library with Mannie Mensah

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Join Mannie Mensah as she reads sections from her favourite books.... more

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December 29, 2020 Episode 7: When Great Trees Fall   by Maya Angelou
When great trees fall, 
rocks on distant hills shudder, 
lions hunker down 
in tall grasses, 
and even elephants 
lumber after safety.
When great trees fall 
in forests, 
small things recoil into silence, 
their senses 
eroded beyond fear.
When great souls die, 
the air around us becomes 
light, rare, sterile. 
We breathe, briefly.
Our eyes, briefly, 
see with 
a hurtful clarity. 
Our memory, suddenly sharpened, 
examines, 
gnaws on kind words 
unsaid, 
promised walks 
never taken.
Great souls die and 
our reality, bound to 
them, takes leave of us. 
Our souls, 
dependent upon their 
nurture, 
now shrink, wizened. 
Our minds, formed 
and informed by their 
radiance, fall away. 
We are not so much maddened 
as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of
dark, cold 
caves.
And when great souls die, 
after a period peace blooms, 
slowly and always 
irregularly. Spaces fill 
with a kind of 
soothing electric vibration. 
Our senses, restored, never 
to be the same, whisper to us. 
They existed. They existed. 
We can be. Be and be 
better. For they existed.
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October 01, 2020 *Special Episode 6* We Are Here.
Welcome to a special episode of the Library Podcast celebrating Black History Month in collaboration with the Feminist Library.
The Feminist Library now based at the Sojourner Truth Centre on Sumner Road, Peckham, has an exhibition titled WE ARE HERE: How Black Women have been the backbone to radical social movements.
Celebrating the work of Black Women using the libraries archival material. From Activists to Educators, Writers and artists if you would like to know more about the exhibition visit the Feminist Library’s website.
Today we will be reading some our favourite poems by Black Women Poets
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5min
August 10, 2020 Episode 5: Where Do You Enter by Nikki Giovanni
Falling in Love can be one of the most affirming feelings one can encounter.Staying in Love can be compared to writing a poem. In this episode we read the wonderful Nikki Giovanni's poem "Where do you enter?"Explore the poem for yourself below:Where do...
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1min
July 10, 2020 Episode 4: Everything Is Waiting for You by David Whyte
Poetry, Books
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2min
July 06, 2020 Thank you for the support!
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1min
June 19, 2020 Episode 3 : Black On a Saturday Night, Rita Dove
Books
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2min
May 25, 2020 Episode 2: Manners- 1965 Elizabeth Bishop
Books
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2min
May 16, 2020 Episode 1:Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967- Rita Dove
Books
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3min

FAQs about The Library with Mannie Mensah:

How many episodes does The Library with Mannie Mensah have?

The podcast currently has 8 episodes available.