Excerpts from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” introduced and recited by John Doherty for the Favorite Poem Project
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman
September 17th, 2009 § Tagged: Spoken Word, Walt Whitman, Favorite Poem Project, United States
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Ay, Ay, Ay de la Grifa Negra by Julia de Burgos
July 16th, 2009 § Tagged: Interviews, Spoken Word, Julia de Burgos, Favorite Poem Project, Puerto Rico, United States, Glaisma Perez-Silva, Jack Agüeros
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Poem by Julia de Burgos, translated by Jack Agüeros
I’ve been looking for videos of poems by the great 20th-century Puerto Rican poet and feminist Julia de Burgos in honor of the confinrmation hearings of Sonia Sotomayor, so I was happy to run across this installment from the generally wonderful Favorite Poem Project, featuring bilingual public school teacher Glaisma Perez-Silva.
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
June 4th, 2009 § Tagged: Interviews, Spoken Word, Yusef Komunyakaa, Favorite Poem Project, United States
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