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A Tree with a Bird in it

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Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a poem based on the aforementioned topic. Summary by MLeigh. (1 hr 20 min)

Chapters

Forward

2:06

Read by mleigh

Resignation by Jessie B. Rittenhouse

0:58

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Bird with the Woe by Edwin Markham

0:51

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

The Unity of Oneness by Witter Bynner

1:17

Read by mleigh

Oiseaurie by Amy Lowell

0:50

Read by Siu

Imri Swazey by Edgar Lee Masters

1:09

Read by Phil Schempf

Rambuncto by Edwin Arlington Robinson

1:53

Read by Phil Schempf

The Bird Misunderstood by Robert Frost

1:22

Read by mleigh

Chicago Memories by Carl Sandburg

2:26

Read by Ryan Godley

Frost and Sandburg Tonight by Edith M. Thomas

1:01

Read by Victoria

The Unquiet Singer by Charles Hanson Towne

2:00

Read by Tom Merritt

At Autumn by Sara Teasdale

0:46

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Rainuv by Ezra Pound

3:40

Read by Tom Merritt

The Sighing Tree by Margaret Widdemer

0:54

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

Ballade of Spring Chickens by Richard Le Gallienne

2:15

Read by Ryan Godley

Oh! Bird! by Angela Morgan

1:08

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

The Charnel Bird by Conrad Aiken

1:27

Read by Liam Knowles

A Young Girl to a Young Bird by Mary Carolyn Davies

0:53

Read by Liam Knowles

The Rune of the Nude by Marguerite Wilkinson

1:22

Read by Liam Knowles

Admiration by Aline Kilmer

1:27

Read by Isabella Paul

The Grackle of Grog by William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet

1:44

Read by benjihess

Preenings by Lola Ridge

1:41

Read by Yuhan L Jiang

Tea o' Herbs by Edna St. Vincent Millay

1:41

Read by Nichole James

The Weaver Bird by John V. A. Weaver

1:41

Read by altrin

Sonnet: Trees Are Not Ships by David Morton

1:06

Read by AnthonyT

The Grackle Is the Loon by Elinor Wylie

0:45

Read by AnthonyT

A Landscape Gets Personal by Leonora Speyer

0:45

Read by AnthonyT

The Symposium Leading Nowhere by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

1:39

Read by Nichole James

The Fowl of a Thousand Flights by Ridgely Torrence

1:42

Read by Lan Kao

The Roiling of Henry by Henry van Dyke

1:54

Read by Lan Kao

Pantings by Cale Young Rice

2:36

Read by Tom Merritt

The Wild by Bliss Carman

1:15

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

They See the Birdie by Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling

1:30

Read by ABVoice

A Ballad of the Bird Dance of Pierrette by Theodosia Garrison

2:53

Read by Tom Merritt

Pierrette Remembers an Engagement by William Griffith

1:17

Read by Tom Merritt

Ain't Nature Wonderful! by Edgar Guest

1:02

Read by Ryan Godley

The Meeting of the Columns by Don Marquis

3:06

Read by Tom Merritt

The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird by Christopher Morley

3:21

Read by mleigh

To a Grackle by Franklin Pierce Adams

1:26

Read by mleigh

Carlo the Gardener by Thomas Augustin Daly

1:27

Read by mleigh

The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo by Vachel Lindsay

3:12

Read by Tom Merritt

Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque by Percy Mackaye, Josephine Preston Peabody, and …

11:10

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt

A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review by Arthur Guiterman

2:11

Read by Stefan Von Blon