Edgar Yipsel “Yip” Harburg, April 8, 1896-March 5, 1981, was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics for such classics as “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?,” “April in Paris,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” and the Broadway show, Finnan’s Rainbow, …
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A lovely video from Motionpoems of a poem written and read by Robert Bly.
Read more →Rachel Carson warned us of the dangers of pesticides and insecticides in our environment back in the early 1960s. I remember being fogged by clouds of insecticide sprayed from the bed of a pickup truck as it wove its way between rows …
Read more →This is a beautiful example of the wonderful videos of poetry created by Motionpoems, a project co-founded by local and nationally-renowned poet, Todd Boss, and animator/producer Angella Kassube. This poem is read superbly by Linnea Mohn, a professional voice actor, also from …
Read more →On 23 September 2014, 26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. Kathy was selected from among over 500 civil society candidates in an open, global nomination process …
Read more →I didn’t f**k it up. Okay, so maybe I did, a little, but I want to be an unf**ker.
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