Sing me to sleep

Mark Strand

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'Funeral Blues' (De W.H.Auden )- Tom Hiddleston

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From The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde, read by sidekick

The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

This week, we honor Pulitzer Prize winner and former US poet laureate Mark Strand, who passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. The beloved poet and author joined us this October to discuss art, imagination, and the life of the mind.

Mark Strand on Artistic Imagination

Details and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/16/mark-strand-dreams-collected-poems/

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"Dreams" by Mark Strand read by Maria Popova

Shortly before his death, Mark Strand reads his beautiful meditation on mortality. Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/18/mark-strand-reads-the-end/

Recording via @NYPL

Mark Strand reads "The End"

http://www.92Y.org/VPC - This recording features Mark Strand's first appearance at 92nd Street Y's Unterberg Poetry Center in April of 1965, when he was one of four winners of that year's "Discovery" poetry contest, which the Poetry Center continues to oversee to this day. Recorded April 19, 1965 at 92nd Street Y.

Discovering Mark Strand | 92Y Readings

The Whitney Humanities Center presents William Bailey and Mark Strand in conversation. The artist and the poet joined in discussion to celebrate the opening of the exhibition “William Bailey Works on Paper: Temperas, Drawings, and Prints” at the Gallery at the Whitney. One of the country’s leading figurative artists, Mr. Bailey eschews narrative, nostalgia, and materiality in his work, which instead conveys an abstract engagement whether working in still life or from the human figure. In the words of Mr. Strand, who is also the author of a monograph on Mr. Bailey, the painter’s works represent “realizations of an idea.” Dec 14, 2010

William Bailey and Mark Strand in Conversation

Miscegenation by Natasha Trethewey read by Christina Lux

Invitation written and read by Druzelle Cederquist

This poem is for participation in The Poetry Foundation's 2013 National Poetry Month initiative "Record-a-Poem." Gwendolyn Brooks is one of my favorite poets. This is my favorite poem. Read with hopefully the same vigor and love as she recited it. May she rest in peace!

Section XVI from Dark Harbor by Mark Strand read by Mark Johnson

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