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The Universe in Verse 2019: full show from Maria Popova on Vimeo.
Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Thanks to Maria Popova & her incredible site,Brain Pickings, for posting this for all the world to enjoy & contemplate.
The full poem playlist :
- “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman and poem #1397 by Emily Dickinson, read by Janna Levin
- “Education” by Elizabeth Alexander, read by the poet herself
- “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” by Adrienne Rich, read by Amanda Palmer
- “Theories of Everything” by Rebecca Elson, read by Regina Spektor
- “A Solar Eclipse” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, read by Natascha McElhone
- Musical interlude: Amanda Palmer
- “As If to Demonstrate an Eclipse” by Billy Collins, read by Chick Nice
- “Achieving Perspective” by Pattiann Rogers, read by David Byrne
- “The Shampoo” by Elizabeth Bishop, read by me
- Musical interlude: Regina Spektor
- “Research” by Cecilia Payne, read by Natalie Batalha
- “Faster Than Light” by Marilyn Nelson, read by the poet herself
- “Explaining Relativity” by Rebecca Elson, read by Stephon Alexander
- “Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be” by Ross Gay, read by Bill T. Jones
- “After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics” by W.H. Auden, read by Josh Groban
- “Figures of Thought” by Howard Nemerov, read by Krista Tippett
- “In Transit” by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman
- “Einstein’s Daughter” by Jennifer Clement, read by Emily Wells
- Musical finale: Emily Wells
