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Under the Yew Tree

7 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago -

Weekly, short, slow-listening podcasts to add a poem to your week.

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Rilke

March 19, 2021 10:14 - 15 minutes - 16.2 MB

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/

Audre Lorde

March 03, 2021 21:12 - 14 minutes - 14.9 MB

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...

Ocean Vuong

February 17, 2021 15:00 - 18 minutes - 12.5 MB

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/

Walt Whitman

February 10, 2021 14:00 - 17 minutes - 11.7 MB

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

February 04, 2021 09:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MB

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'. 

Introduction

January 28, 2021 20:00 - 9 minutes - 6.8 MB

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

Yeats

January 28, 2021 20:00 - 16 minutes - 11.7 MB

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.