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One year ago today, I lost my darling friend Emily Levine, who introduced me to the splendor and solace of poetry. Without her, there would be no
#UniverseInVerse. This is the last poem she read to me shortly before returning her stardust to the universe: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/02/03/emily-levine-cold-solace-anna-belle-kaufman/ … -
“Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were?” A gorgeous tribute to Stephen Hawking, who would've been 78 today, from poet Marie Howe https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/22/singularity-marie-howe-stephen-hawking/ …
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Astronomer and poet Rebecca Elson was born on this day in 1960—a rare, tragic genius, dead at only 39. She left behind five dozen scientific papers and one slender, sublimely beautiful book of poetry. Here is
@respektor's#UniverseInVerse reading from it: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/29/regina-spektor-reads-rebecca-elson/ … -
“…equations letting sight pierce through time into liberations, lacerations of light and dust…” Adrienne Rich's glorious homage to the Hubble Space Telescope, gloriously read by
@amandapalmer and gloriously animated by@kellianderson https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/04/26/amanda-palmer-hubble-photographs-adrienne-rich/ …#UniverseInVerse -
As the light begins to return today, artist Ann Hamilton reads Anna Leahy's wonderful poem "The Habits of Light" https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/04/03/the-habits-of-light-anna-leahy-henrietta-leavitt-ann-hamilton/ …
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Remembering Denise Levertov – one of the greatest poets of the 20th century, who died on this day in 1997 – with her sublime poem about our relationship with "nature" https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/10/america-ferrera-sojourns-in-the-parallel-world-denise-levertov/ …
#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/wwFdbLzv8O
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“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey work of the stars.” This was such a highlight of the year for me:
@kaysarahsera reads Whitman and performs her splendid song-poem "Astronaut" https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/12/17/sarah-kay-astronaut-whitman/ …#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/2fkSauAake
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2.5 years ago,
@neilhimself composed a gorgeous poem for#UniverseInVerse – a subversive feminist celebration of science, tracing our history as a species who hungers for knowledge and advances by love. Now, it has been turned into a gorgeous animated film https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/11/25/the-mushroom-hunters-animation-neil-gaiman/ …pic.twitter.com/DSdNpG55wG
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"Nothing is ever over life breathes life in its turn Sometimes the people listen Sometimes the people learn" On
@neilhimself's birthday, his gorgeous tribute to Rachel Carson, who awakened our ecological conscience https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/02/07/after-silence-neil-gaiman-rachel-carson/ …#UniverseInVerse -
On Joni Mitchell's birthday,
@amandapalmer +@zoecello +@seanonolennon's gorgeous#UniverseInVerse cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/06/18/amanda-palmer-big-yellow-taxi/ …pic.twitter.com/ys10gTjEjE
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"She died a famous woman denying her wounds denying her wounds came from the same source as her power" Remembering Marie Curie, born on this day in 1867, with Adrienne Rich's beautiful tribute, beautifully read by
@rosannecash https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/02/rosanne-cash-adrienne-rich-marie-curie/ …#UniverseInVerse -
In Transit –
@neilhimself reads his gorgeous poem about the gay Quaker astronomer who, 100 years ago this year, confirmed relativity and catapulted Einstein into worldwide celebrity https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/29/in-transit-neil-gaiman-eddington/ …#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/gM6pwVmeBQ
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“To see the world beyond the skies, to know the mind behind the eyes…”
@neilhimself reads his touching tribute to the lonely genius astronomer Arthur Eddington, who 100 years ago confirmed relativity and catapulted Einstein into fame https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/29/in-transit-neil-gaiman-eddington/ …#UniverseInVerse -
“We call it ‘Nature’; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be ‘Nature’ too.” A gorgeous poem by Denise Levertov, born on this day in 1923 https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/05/10/america-ferrera-sojourns-in-the-parallel-world-denise-levertov/ …
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“Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Remembering Edna St. Vincent Millay, who died on this day in 1950, with her gorgeous tribute to truth and mathematics, read by
@IronAndWine https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/03/22/edna-st-vincent-millay-euclid-alone/ …#UniverseInVerse -
"We are listening, the small bipeds with the giant dreams." A very happy birthday to cosmic enchantress
@DianeSAckerman, one extraordinary biped dreamer! Celebrate with her inspired ode to our search for life beyond our lonely planet: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/08/we-are-listening-diane-ackerman-the-universe-in-verse/ …#UniverseInVerse -
Rita Dove, one of the great poets of our time, turns 67 today. Here is her short, profound poem "The Fish in the Stone" – an invitation to expand our contracted perspective and contemplate deep time – read by the lovely
@zoecello https://www.brainpickings.org/2018/12/11/rita-dove-zoe-keating-universe-in-verse/ …#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/9xlGAzxt7W
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"My poems: a handful of dust trying to get back to supernova. Like every longing, everything alive." Marilyn Nelson reads her exquisite poem about the purpose of life and how our impermanence both frustrates and fuels our creative drive https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/08/05/faster-than-light-marilyn-nelson-reading/ …
#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/Jzei1sNXej
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If your geeky heart could use a smile today: A delightful ode to the number pi from Nobel-winning Polish poet Wisława Szymborska, born on this day in 1923 https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/10/23/wislawa-szymborska-pi/ …
#UniverseInVerse pic.twitter.com/bO1jZMuxpz
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Ooh!
@amandapalmer released the recording of her#ninjaTED variety show benefiting the Vancouver Food Bank: https://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/album/ninja-ted-a-benefit-for-the-vancouver-food-bank … (On it, me reading Ursula K. Le Guin's "Hymn to Time" and@neilhimself reading his superb feminist science poem from the inaugural#UniverseInVerse)
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