Favorite Poem Project / produced and directed by Natatcha Estébanez, Emiko Omori, Juanita Anderson, Debra Farrar-Parkman, d.b. Roderick ; produced by Legacy Productions, Inc., in association with New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston University, the Library of Congress.
Accompanies book An invitation to poetry: a new Favorite Poem Project anthology. "The Favorite Poem Project videos on DVD." Accompanies book An invitation to poetry: a new Favorite Poem Project anthology. "The Favorite Poem Project videos on DVD."
Contents:
Introduction / by Robert Pinsky -- From Song of myself / by Walt Whitman ; read by John Doherty -- Minstrel man / by Langston Hughes ; read by Pov Chin -- Politics / by William Butler Yeats ; read by Steve Conteagüero -- The holy longing / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; read by Olivia Milward -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) / by Frank O'Hara ; read by Richard Samuel -- Facing it / by Yousef Komunyakaa ; read by Michael H. Lythgoe -- We real cool / by Gwendolyn Brooks ; read by John Ulrich -- Nick and the candlestick / by Sylvia Plath ; read by Seph Rodney -- The lower the leaves of the trees / by Sone no Yoshitada ; read by Kiyoshi Houston -- Sonnet 29 / by William Shakespeare ; read by Daniel McCall -- Ay, ay, ay de la Grifia Negra by Julia de Burgos ; read by Glaisma Perez-Silva -- I'm nobody! Who are you? / by Emily Dickinson ; read by Yina Lang -- Out, Out-- / by Robert Frost ; read by Elisabeth Wojtusik -- The sloth / by Theordore Roethke ; read by Katherine Mechling -- God's grandeur / by Gerard Manley Hopkins ; read by Stanley Kunitz -- Hornworm: Autumn lamentation ; by Stanley Kunitz ; read by Donna Bickel -- The song of the banana man / by Evan Jones ; read by George Scott -- Piececitos / by Gabriel Mistral ; read by Maria Christina Sanchez Escobar -- Dulce et decorum est / by Wilfred Owen ; Mary McWhorter -- A psalm of life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; read by Michael Haynes -- Notes from a nonexistent Himalayan Expedition / by Wisława Szymborska ; read by Bill Hayes -- From Gitanjali / by Rabindranath Tagore ; read by Jayashree Chatterjee -- Casey at the bat / by Ernest Lawrence Thayer ; read by Lee Samuel -- The sentence / by Anna Akhmatova ; read by Nancy Nersessian -- At the fishhouses / by Elizabeth Bishop ; read by Alexander Scherr -- The way of the water-hyacinth ; by Zawgee ; read by Lyn Aye ; For my people / by Margaret Walker ; read by Leah Ward Sears.
Summary:
Favorite Poem Project participants read their favorite poems from Shakespeare to Szymgorska.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)57219187
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.