Stories and Poems

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

Sylvia Plath - The Thin People

To You - Walt Whitman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, 
   why should you not speak to me?
And why should I not speak to you?

To You - Walt Whitman

Poets of Nature - These I Singing in Spring - From Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Sylvia Plath reads "A Birthday Present." Written in September of 1962, recorded in October. Background and full text: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/10/29/sylvia-plath-reads-a-birthday-present-1962/

Sylvia Plath Reads "A Birthday Present" (1962)

In honour of #WorldPoetryDay, here is my recital of one of the first Plath poems I learnt by heart in drama. Enjoy.

Mirror - Sylvia Plath

Image from anniversary edition of the Wessex Novels, 1920.

NEUTRAL TONES, by THOMAS HARDY, read by Maud Newton

A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island, by Frank O'Hara, read by Abigail Deutsch

Tell All the Truth

Tell all the truth but tell it slant,
Success in circuit lies,
Too bright for our infirm delight
The truth's superb surprise; 

As lightning to the children eased
With explanation kind,
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind. 

—Emily Dickinson

[Yahia Lababidi tells the truth, slant, here:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZaCL780j0rR5oqAzP4rv7w ]

Stories and Poems

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