"In the best conversations, you don't even remember what you talked about, only how it felt" John Green

Alex Hyner

Famous Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

In 1849, a little over 167 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the first American writer to try and make a living from his art, and failing in several publishing ventures and positions, Poe achieved few of his aims, barely getting by financially and only managing to attract a little—often negative—notice for now-famous poems like “The Raven.” Contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson disparaged the poem and a later generation of writers, including William Butler Yeats, pronounced him “vulgar.”

But of course, as we know, a countercurrent of Poe appreciation took hold among writers, artists, and filmmakers interested in mystery, horror, and the supernatural—to such a degree that in the previous century, nearly every artist even passingly associated with darker themes has interpreted Poe as a rite of passage. 

Ulalume is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847.

https://www.openculture.com/2016/10/famous-edgar-allan-poe-stories-read-by-iggy-pop-jeff-buckley-christopher-walken-marianne-faithful-more.html

 

BLACK LIVES MATTER

 

Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize

 The Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize is given to honor exceptional poems that help make real for readers the gravity of the vulnerable state of our environment at present.

Established in 2019 with generous support from Treehouse Investments, the prize will honor three poets. First place will receive $1,000; second place, $750; and third place, $500. In addition, all three poems will be published in the popular Poem-a-Day series, which is distributed to 500,000 readers. Poems may also be featured in the award-winning education series Teach This Poem, which serves 35,000 educators each week. 

Submissions for the 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize will be accepted from September 15 to November 15, 2021. The judges are environmental thought-leader and activist Dr. Mustafa Santiago Ali and poet Alexis Pauline Gumbs.

for more pls go to: https://poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/treehouse-climate-action-poem-prize

Additional resources on the climate crisis: 

SDG 13: Climate Action
The National Resources Defense Council
The Union of Concerned Scientists
The Sierra Club
The Sierra Club, Redwood Chapter
Koshland Science Museum 
“How to Understand the UN’s Dire New Climate Report” by Robinson Meyer, October 9, 2018, The Atlantic
“Winning Slowly is the Same as Losing” by Bill McKibben, December 1, 2017, Rolling Stone

Read this interview with the team at Treehouse Investments about their work and their funding of the Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.

Paul Simon Tells the Story of How He Wrote "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970)

 

                                                               Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (Audio)

Lyrics:

When you're weary, feeling small

When tears are in your eyes, I'll dry them all (all)

I'm on your side, oh, when times get rough

And friends just can't be found

Like a bridge over troubled water

I will lay me down

Like a bridge over troubled water 

I will lay me down 

 

It takes a certain amount of hubris to write a song like “Bridge Over Troubled Water”—to write, that is, a secular hymn, a non-religious gospel hit for burned-out sixties’ folkies. Maybe only a tragic flaw could inspire a composer “coming off the back of four hit albums and two number one singles in four years” to soothe the disaffection of down-and-out Americans who could see the bottom from where they stood in 1969, a year notorious for its cultural disaffection and political gloom.

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel’s status as superstar hitmakers at the end of the decade perhaps made it harder for viewers of Songs of America—the television film in which “Bridge Over Troubled Water” debuted—to take them seriously.

for more pls read: https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/paul-simon-tells-the-story-of-how-he-wrote-bridge-over-troubled-water-1970.html

 

“I defend not my voice, but my silence.” -Anna Akhmatova

 

                                                                              Julia Hetta

“I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love.”

“I have a lot of work to do today;

I need to slaughter memory,

Turn my living soul to stone

Then teach myself to live again…”

“And if you knew from what scraps

Poems are born—without shame

Like yellow dandelions by a wormy fence,

Like wild spinach or the common burr.”

“I marvel at everything as if it were new.”

“Regarding myself as a mere echo,

Cave-like, unintelligible, and nocturnal…”

“The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.”

“As the future ripens in the past,

so the past rots in the future—

a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

“I seem to myself, as in a dream,

An accidental guest in this dreadful body.”

 

 

“What can be explained is not poetry.” William Butler Yeats

 

The Stolen Child

W. B. Yeats - 1865-1939

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Where dips the rocky highland
Of Sleuth Wood in the lake,
There lies a leafy island
Where flapping herons wake
The drowsy water rats;
There we've hid our faery vats,
Full of berrys
And of reddest stolen cherries.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wave of moonlight glosses
The dim gray sands with light,
Far off by furthest Rosses
We foot it all the night,
Weaving olden dances
Mingling hands and mingling glances
Till the moon has taken flight;
To and fro we leap
And chase the frothy bubbles,
While the world is full of troubles
And anxious in its sleep.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed:
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than he can understand.

To my students @beykentunv

Dear Students,

All prezis are uploaded at Pusula Beykent. Please feel free to download and analyse them before the Final Exams.

I wish you success.

best

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PS.: For further questions pls e-mail me. 

week 11 Beykent Uni -Survey to English Lit

Dear Students,

Here are the two prezis that I have used in our lecture.

Feel free to ask me questions.

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https://prezi.com/view/v7VeHynNlkQLPKy6iGJQ/

https://prezi.com/view/NfpozbBU35YTMZW5RzTK/

To my students @beykentunv

 Dear Students,

Due to some sudden changes, the Uni offered me some lectures.

I was willing to continue "Survey to English Lit" and "Presentation Skills".

So be prepared!

best

gh

Bulutlar açmadı Mavi gök orda mı? - Cahit Zarifoğlu

Mavi Gök Orda Mı

- Cahit Zarifoğlu

Bakıyorsunuz kuşlar

Hazır

Sokak lambaları yanık unutulmuş

Bir Kadıköy vapuru hınca hınç insan

Çok geçmeyecek

Martılar beyhude turlar atacak

Kıyılar lağım konserve kutuları

Mısır koçanları

Sevgi aranabilir yine

Korkusuzca say koskoca kederlerini

Bir kuyu bulunabilir

Aklımdan çıkmıyorsun

Sen hala dizüstü

Bunca anıyı besleyerek

Sokaklarda avaz avaz konuşarak kendi kendinle

Mektupları öpebilirsin kırmızı dudaklarınla

Görür gibi olarak açıp baktığımı

Bense şöyle diyorum:

Buradan bir acı kanamış boyuna

Kuşlar hazır

Öncü havalanmak üzre

Şehri gelen bir mevsime bırakıyorlar

O vapur hala hınca hınç

Kimbilir herbiri hangi dünyaya sağır

Çok geçmez aradan

Kadınlar kapı önlerinde

Ellerinde meşalelerle

Aydınlatırlar gelip geçen erkek suratları

Yorgun bir sarıyla ben de

Geçeceğim önlerinden

Aklımdan çıkmıyorsun dedim

Başka türlüsünü yorgunum anlatmaya

Telefonlar yan hücrede çalışıyor

Bende kurşuni bir dere

Ağaçlar hayvanlar bile kaygılı

Onu bir mersedesten indirdi kalçasına kadar

açılarak

Yapayaşlı bir rum kadın

Herşeyde yanıp sönen bir kıyamet algısı

Haydi koşayım diyorum belki dağılır

Koşuyorum

Sancağımda kendi rüzgarımla ölgün kıpırtılar

Hayır daha sevgili daha sevimli değil

Ne başka bir gün ne başka bir zaman

Çok geçmeyecek aradan

Şöyle diyeceğim:

Bulutlar açmadı

Mavi gök orda mı

"I can hear the roar of women's silence" - Thomas Sankara

 

"Dear March Come in" -Dickinson

 

@Zeitwunden

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” - William Shakespeare.

Des'ree - I'm Kissing You (Version 1) [Official Video]

Dear Students, 

Those who have time may want to read the edited version of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet": https://shakespeare.folger.edu/downloads/pdf/romeo-and-juliet_PDF_FolgerShakespeare.pdf

have fun,

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“I like pink." Lucius sniffed. "It's just red's sorry, weak cousin.” ― Beth Fantaskey, Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side

 

Conference: COMMENT MANAGER SON EQUIPE A DISTANCE?

 

e remercie à chère Virginie Duret et à sa belle équipe à l'ISTC pour cet organisation. Depuis que je suis intégrée chez eux je ne vis que les premières de ma vie professionnelle. Je vous invite avec un grand plaisir à cette conférence où je partagerai le rôle du "keynote speaker", en plus avec une experte exceptionnelle: Mme. Anne-Sophie Dautais Muller.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348358271_COMMENT_MANAGER_SON_EQUIPE_A_DISTANCE