Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/05/28/emily-dickinson-grief/

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

"I measure every Grief I meet" (Maria Popova reads Emily Dickinson)

Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2021/10/20/ursula-k-le-guin-kinship-poem/

Music: "Organ Concerto in D minor, BWV 596" by Johann Sebastian Bach, early 1700s

"Kinship" by Ursula K. Le Guin read by Amanda Palmer, with Bach

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/11/jane-hirshfield-for-what-binds-us/

Kindly recorded by the poet for The Marginalian.

Jane Hirshfield reads "For What Binds Us"

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/03/let-them-not-say-jane-hirshfields/

Photograph: Maria Popova

Music: Claude Debussy "Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor - I. Prologue" (public domain)

"Let Them Not Say" by Jane Hirshfield, read by Krista Tippett

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/04/02/rumi-love-gold

"Let's Love Each Other" by Rumi (translated and read by Haleh Liza Gafori)

Recorded at the 2022 Universe in Verse — an annual charitable celebration of the wonder of reality through stories of science winged with poetry, created and hosted by Maria Popova.

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/20/trees-at-night-helene-johnson-rebecca-solnit

The Universe in Verse: Rebecca Solnit Reads "Trees at Night" (1925) by Helene Johnson

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/02/octopus-poem/

Originally published in the 40th anniversary issue of Orion Magazine. Art by TK.

POEM TEXT

“The Age of the Possible” by Maria Popova

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/07/on-looking-up-by-chance-at-the-constellations

Reading by Alexandra Horowitz for The Universe in Verse: https://www.themarginalian.org/the-universe-in-verse/

The Universe in Verse: “On Looking Up by Chance at the Constellations” by Robert Frost

Recorded at the 2022 Universe in Verse: theuniverseinverse.org

Poem text and context: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/14/the-beginning-and-the-end-robinson-jeffers

"The Beginning and the End" by Robinson Jeffers (excerpt read by Natalie Batalha)

Recorded at the 2022 Universe in Verse. Poem text and discussion: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/22/to-the-young-who-want-to-die-gwendolyn-brooks

Roxane Gay Reads "To the Young Who Want to Die" by Gwendolyn Brooks

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The Universe in Verse: Rebecca Solnit Reads "Trees at Night" (1925) by Helene Johnson

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