"I Many Times Thought Peace Had Come," by Emily Dickinson

 Reading/video of a short poem, #912, by Dickinson, and a happy [let us hope] voting day to you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BclJi99wcpw

"Magpies," by Judith Wright

 I had a long conversation with a magpie when I was about 5 years old. Very cordial. A reading/video of a poem by the acclaimed Australian poet Judith Wright:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi4vDZITGcM

"Sensuality," by Kenneth Slessor

 Reading/video of a poem by Australian poet Kenneth Slessor (1901-1977):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Gd7A8Km5EU

"Young and Old," by Charles Kingsley

 Reading/video of a poem by the Victorian Anglican priest, progressive reformer, novelist, and poet Charles Kingsley. The poem is the source, or a source, of the old saying "every dog has its day." 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLpJreYwGQ4

"Here and Hereafter," by Walter Everette Hawkins

 A poem from African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle and Song, edited by Kevin Young (2020):

reading/video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGIXM7BvHhk

"If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking," by Emily Dickinson

 Reading/video of her venerable poem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB3fJdaWnO4

New Anthology of African American Poetry

 

Kevin Young has edited a new anthology of African American poetry--just published by the Library of America. It includes poets not usually seen in anthologies as well as poems not usually seen by poets we're accustomed to seeing. It's a great book. 

African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (LOA #333): A Library of America Anthology (The Library of America) edited by Kevin Young

"Thank God," by Orhan Veli Kanik

 Reading/video of a short poem by Turkish poet Orhan Veli Kanik:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJz9V9SKQaU

"The Secret Sits," by Robert Frost

 A couplet by Mr. Frost, reading and video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-KMBHfS3OU

"It's This Way," by Nazim Hikmet

 Reading/video of a short poem by Nazim Hikmet, poet and political prisoner in post-WWII Turkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dRAUDGbiOw

"To a President," by Walt Whitman

 Reading/video of a short poem by Walt Whitman--the poem is directed to James Buchanan, widely thought to be the worst president in American history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8KvBb1KXhM

"Woods," by Wendell Berry

 Reading/video of a short poem by farmer, environmentalist, poet, and essayist Wendell Berry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMlIVmuEnY4

"Once the Wind," by Shake Keane

 Reading/video of a short poem by Ellsworth McGlanahan "Shake" Keane (1927-1997), jazz trumpeter and poet from the island of St. Vincent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiuxSUy8Gc