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A Voyage Around Joni Mitchell
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What musicians do you consider to be poets? Or is such a distinction meaningful at all?
Since 1966, the Pittsburgh-based International Poetry Forum has welcomed readings by not only poets and actors, but also musicians and musician-poets: figures like Judy Collins, Brock Peters, The Clancy Brothers, Noel Harrison, Gina... See more
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What made the winter wren say,
this is my home now, as it carried
stick after stick and tufts of grass
to the tractor, shaping a soft place
inside the arm that lifts the bucket?
What gave such a small body
so much space for song, belting out
notes from its perch on top of the seat,
chirping if we get too close to that
hollow
... See moreThe art that can emerge and the ways that we practice in our adoration of this bird today will be held on as available for that generation to experience as much as is possible in what the power of the nightingale was , if there ever becomes a “was.”
The Nightingale's Song – with Sam Lee
Mammoths and Ants
Look at the fragile mushrooms.
Look at the black widow.
Pause with me a moment,
and hear the cicadas humming.
Here is where I’m home, among the
mammoth red woods.
When I was lost, the ants absorbed me,
calling me to the smallness of Earth.
There I heard the song of silence.
Come with me through the miniscule.
Listen, the cicadas are