Name: "Love Is" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova) by brainpicker
Duration: 32 s
Description: Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

Background, context, and transcript: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/07/09/sylvia-plath-spoken-word-tulips-bbc/

Sylvia Plath reads "Tulips": A Rare BBC Recording

Ón abhainn chuig an fharraige, beidh saoirse ag an bPalaistín.

A tribute to our Palestinian brothers and sisters. My intention is to showcase the beauty and power of music and poetry from Palestine, and honour the anger, grief and suffering. Meant with respect and solidarity, and prayers of peace from Ireland.

Painting by Sliman Mansour.

All the music and poetry here, I believe, is from Palestine, with the exception of tracks 9&20 (UK), 15 (Morocco), 16 (US), 28 (Ireland) 

Tracklist:
1. Field Recordings of the Palestine Sunbird
2. Muhiddine Al Baghdadi - Al Fajir
3. Palestine - Ministry of Dub-Key
4. Masar - Le Trio Joubran 
5. Poem by Mahmoud Darwish - Think of Others
6. هي هي يا فلسطين - Rola Azar
7. Al Mizan - Clarissa Bitar
8. Excerpts from spoken word “Shades of Anger” - Rafeef Ziadah
9. Every Grain of Palestinian Sand - Muslimgauze 
10. Poem by Mahmoud Darwish (read by Omar Offendum) - On This Land 
11. ميمة الخليل - يا معلمتى - جودة عالية 
12. زغرتوا - Zaghritu - Maya Al Khaldi 
13. Initiation of Ecstasy (instrumental) - El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
14. Nijmet El-Subeh - Sanaa Moussa
15. Palestine - Nass El Ghiwane
16. Excerpts from “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” - Gil Scott-Heron
17. Palestinian Shibbabeh Flute - Solidarity Studios
18. Dance of the Resistance (Instrumental) - Sabreen
19. يا طير السنونو - Rola Azar
20. All The Stolen Land Of Palestine - Muslimgauze
21. Excerpts from spoken word “Love Letters from Palestine” - Dana Dajani 
22. A New Love - El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
23. Al Raba'yye - In A'd Rifaki [Edit]
24. Safar Barlek - Sanaa Moussa
25. Nami Ya Hanin - Marwan Abado
26. Poem by Refaat Alareer - If I Must Die
27. I Don’t Have Freedom - DAM, Children of Lod
28. Caoine For a Dead Child - Kitty Gallagher (a Caoine is an ancient Irish tradition of lament singing) 
29. Lovers’ Hymn - El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
30. Excerpt from spoken word “Love Letters from Palestine” - Dana Dajani 
31. Field Recordings of the Palestine Sunbird
32. Palestinian Shibbabeh Flute - Solidarity Studios
33. Poem by Marwan Makhoul - Birds and Warplanes

From the River to the Sea

Background, context, and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/15/nikki-giovanni-love-friendship-loneliness/

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"Love Is" by Nikki Giovanni (read by Maria Popova)

Bon Iver - Haven, Mass (B - Side)

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

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James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

"Steve Reich in The Hague"  
 14.12.2003
 Bootleg

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

Mariee Sioux - Ghosts In My Heart

David Foster Wallace's iconic 2005 Kenyon College graduation address. Context and transcript here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/09/12/this-is-water-david-foster-wallace/

Part 1 here: http://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water-1

David Foster Wallace: "This Is Water" (part 2)

From a BBC radio segment broadcast on April 29th, 1937. Background and transcript:http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/29/craftsmanship-virginia-woolf-speaks-1937/ 

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On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice

Alan Watts - The Real You

Richard Schwartz, Ph.D., is the founder of Internal Family Systems, a unique and astoundingly effective modality of psychotherapy that focuses on the various parts within a person. Internal Family Systems, or IFS, views multiplicity of mind as our natural state and our “parts” as sub-personalities that may be healed and transformed by bringing the Self into its rightful role as leader of the internal system. In this interview, he guides Sam through some transformational trauma work.

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