Hi everyone, this is #APoemToRead, a little corner on A Bit of This and A Bit of That Podcast.
For the eighth instalment of A Poem To Read, I read a poem called "Everything that Acts is Actual" by Denise Levertov, a British-born American poet known for her lyrical style, keen attention to the ordinary, and commitment to both craft and political activism.
May this beautiful poem serve as a chance for us to reassess what it truly means to exist, as true existence is found and celebrated through active endeavour: doing, feeling, perceiving, and changing things.
BGM: Vostoc by Off Beathttps://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/vostoc
Hi everyone, this is #APoemToRead, a little corner on A Bit of This and A Bit of That Podcast.
For the seventh instalment of A Poem To Read, I did a reading of a poem called "Not" by Erin Hanson, an Australian poet who rose to prominence through her writings on her blog The Poetic Underground.
May this beautiful poem serve as a chance to look inside ourselves, and may it remind us to always have compassion for the individual that we each are.BGM: Valleys and Peaks by Off Beat
Hi everyone, this is #APoemToRead, a little corner on A Bit of This and A Bit of That Podcast.
It's been more than a year since the last episode of this podcast overall, but almost four years since the last episode of A Poem To Read series. For the 6th installment of the series, I read If I Must Die by Reefat Al-Areer.
Reefat Al-Areer was a Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist who was murdered by an Israeli strike in 2023 during its still ongoing genocidal siege of Palestine. His murder once again amplified the cruel reality that the people of Palestine has been going through for many years under the Israeli occupation.
I read this poem as a reminder to myself to always keep Palestine in my heart and do everything within my ability to echo, and hopefully contribute, however little, to their fight for liberation.
May we all live true to our humanity, and may God make it easy for us in our fight to protect our humanity. All my love to Palestine and everyone fighting for their liberation against occupation. Illegal occupation has no place anywhere on earth.
BGM: Melody in Ash by Kike Gutz
https://www.freepik.com/audio/tune/melody-in-ash
“My heart stopped, I have never had an experience like that as a biographer, before or since.” That is what James Gleick, the famed author, biographer, and former science reporter told Maria Popova of brainpicks.org about how he felt the first time he came into a certain letter while working on what would become Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman several months after Feynman’s death.
That letter, which I read for this episode, is written by Richard Feynman to Arline Greenbaum, his childhood sweetheart, his already departed wife.
Richard Phillips Feynman ( 11 May 1918 – 15 February 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, a Nobel Prize laureate, and one of the most famous figures in science, commonly acknowledged as a genius.
A scientist and a genius is not so often associated with romance, more so of being a hopeless romantic. Perhaps that is why I was extremely affected when I first read about Feynman and Arline. I never imagined someone who I only knew from lectures videos and science books to hold such heart-stopping love and vulnerability as made apparent through the letter.
My name is Yulyah and I hope you do enjoy the reading :)
Hi everyone, my name is Yulyah. This is a continuation of the talk about mental illness and mental health and I specifically talk about my personal journey in constant healing and self-acceptance. This talk is about knowing one own self and coming to love and accept one own self. I am sharing my heart openly and truthfully in hope that we all as human beings can find strength and courage through empathising with each other. This is the fourth and the last part of the mental illness and mental health series on this podcast. May we heal, may we love, may we live :)
