Episodes

  • Rilke
    Mar 19 2021

    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.
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    16 mins
  • Audre Lorde
    Mar 3 2021

    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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    14 mins
  • Ocean Vuong
    Feb 17 2021

    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
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    18 mins
  • Walt Whitman
    Feb 10 2021

    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

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    17 mins
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Feb 4 2021

    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'.

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    21 mins
  • Yeats
    Jan 28 2021

    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.

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    17 mins
  • Introduction
    Jan 28 2021

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

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    10 mins