Under the Yew Tree

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/

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 and relationships, 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 "Stuff You Missed in History Class" Episode on Audre Lorde: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FSpvjy8zOjCLnWtVY25U5?si=ao4eSHuvSsmTTv35OYDS8Q

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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 TriQuarterly: https://www.triquarterly.org/issues/issue-146/untitled-blue-green-brown-oil-canvas-mark-rothko-1952 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/undertheyewtreepod/

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

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 life defined by chronic illness, and I consider the impact of illness on Victorian women through looking at Charlotte Perkins Gillman's novel 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.

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.

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