A Poetry Periscope reciting the works of famous poets and poets of English-language literature addresses passers-by in the United States from August 2024. Thanks to a partnership with Nichols School, Buffalo residents can hear works by Bob Dylan, Patrick Kavanagh, W.B. Yeats, Rita Dove, Mary Oliver and many more.
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Patrick Kavanagh / Epic / performed by the Poet
/ Inniskeen Road / performed by Shanid
Eavan Boland / Quarantine / performed by the Poet
Patrick Kavanagh / Raglan Road / performed by Van Morrison and The Chieftains
W.B. Yeats / Lake Island of Innisfree / performed by Anthony Hopkins
/ When You are Old / performed by Cillian Murphy
/ Easter, 1918 / performed by Tom O’Bedlam
Seamus Heaney / Mid-Term Break / performed by the Poet
/ When All Others were Away at Mass / performed by the Poet
/ Digging / performed by the Poet
Rita Dove / Beside the Golden Door / performed by the Poet
/Daffodil / performed by the Poet
Dana Gioia / Words / performed by the Poet
/ Meet Me at the Light House / performed by the Poet
Maya Angelou / Caged Bird / performed by the Poet
/ When Great Trees Fall / performed by Ben W. Smith
Lee Herrick / My California / performed by the Poet
Emily Dickinson / Hope is the Thing with Feathers / performed by Gill Mills
/ Because I Could Not Stop for Death / performed by Alice Barclay
Edna Vincent Millay / Love is Not All / performed by Anna Bell
Dylan Thomas / Fern Hill / performed by the Poet
Mary Oliver / Wild Geese / performed by the Poet
Elizabeth Bishop / The Fish / performed by the Poet
Billy Collins / Sonnet / performed by the Poet
/ The Lanyard / performed by the Poet
/ On Turning Ten / performed by Ricky
Elizabeth Alexander / Praise Song for the Day / performed by the Poet
Bob Dylan / Blowin’ in the Wind / performed by the Poet
Robert Pinsky / Shirt / performed by the Poet
Claude McKay / After the Winter / performed by the Poet
/ America / performed by Tubyez Cropper
Walt Whitman / Song of the Open Road / performed by Dave Luukkonen
/ The Astronomer / performed by Nicky Rebelo
Robert Frost / Mending Wall / performed by the Poet
/ Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening / performed by Mattie Overall
Langston Hughes / The Weary Blues / performed by Allen Dwight Callahan
Edgar Alan Poe / Annabel Lee / performed by Blue Sky Motivation