"B"
From Kay's 2008 performance at the Bowery Poetry Club, and more intimate and relaxed presentation of her performance at TED2011. What's your take?
"Hiroshima"
Kay's poem that ended our show, as performed at The Nantucket Project in 2011.
"Tshotsholoza"
Kay's poem about Noor Ebrahim in South Africa as taken from her performance at the Acumen Fund's *spark! event in New York City
You can read and listen to all the poetry Marie Howe recited for us during our interview. Enjoy and share them with others:
» Magdelene—The Seven Devils
» Annunciation
» Prayer
» Hurry
» The Gate
» The Meadow
An excerpt of the poem Ms. Alexander read at the inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Listen to Ms. Alexander recite this poem with and without music. Which one do you like better?
Listen to Ms. Alexander recite this poem with and without music. Which one do you like better?
Listen to Ms. Alexander recite this poem with and without music. Which one do you like better?
Listen to Ms. Alexander recite this poem with and without music. Which one do you like better? In our show she reads this after "Neonatology" and surprises herself with the appropriateness of the pairing.
On the day before the President Obama's inauguration in 2009, Elizabeth Alexander recited this poem on the mall for a soundcheck. And hundreds of people stopped, listened, and clapped.
The last poem of a longer work, Ms. Alexander puts this together with her poem "Autumn Passage" as an example of having those experiences of giving birth and the privilege of sitting with one near the end of life.
In this poem, Ms. Alexander says that the late Lucille Clifton informed her fluid approach to "a very deep kind of ancestral understanding... that moves us into the future." Includes the audio of the poet reading her work.
