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Love In The Time of Corona: Poetry for our times

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Love In The Time of Corona: Poetry for our times

Double Edge Theatre has team up with The River to bring more light into these dark times. And we are doing it with poetry. Here are the poems, some original some not, read by members of Double Edge Theater and their circle of friends and supporters.

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/que-les-queda-a-los-jovenes-produced-by-radio-plasma

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/wait-for-me-by-konstantin-simonov-read-by-visnja-ninkovic-from-serbia

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/breathe-by-alexi-murdoch-read-by-bronwyn-sims

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/august-moonrise-by-sara-teasedale-read-by-dominic-rodgers

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/frog-poem-3-read-by-the-poet-abbot-cutler

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/to-each-person-there-is-a-name-by-zelda-read-by-stacy-klein

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/august-letter-to-a-poet-by-kathy-engel-read-by-courtney-surmanek

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/hooverville-by-steven-t-licardi

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/a-letter-to-agnes-de-mille-from-martha-graham-from-nathan-podziewski

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/danse-russe-by-william-carlos-williams-read-by-michelle-renee-erard

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/facing-the-ocean-springs-warm-and-flowers-bloom-by-haizi-from-lydia-li-in-beijing

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/a-little-poem-by-june-jordan-read-by-edite-cunha

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/this-time-by-lou-cove

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/pumpernickle-by-philip-schultz-read-by-bob-pura

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/out-out-by-robert-frost-read-by-rep-natalie-blais

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/to-be-of-use-by-marge-piercy-read-by-dr-yves-salomon-fernandez-from-gcc

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/rhumba-by-chace-morris-read-by-the-poet

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/kindess-by-naomi-shihab-nye-read-by-ruth-folchman

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/in-blackwater-woods-by-mary-oliver-read-by-rebekah-capers-1

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/against-the-illusion-of-separateness-by-pablo-neruda-read-by-carlos-uriona

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/daily-prayer-with-the-corrymeela-community-by-padraig-o-tuama-read-by-karen-green

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/an-excerpt-from-rant-by-diane-diprima-read-by-liza-bielby-the-hinterlands-detroit

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/adrift-by-mark-nepo-read-by-linda-mcinerney

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/because-of-you-christa-mountain

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/theres-silence-by-valeria-magrelli-read-by-lori-holmes-clark

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/wyn-cooper-reads-his-mars-poetica

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/lets-be-silent-by-pablo-neruda

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/happiness-makes-up-in-height-for-what-it-lacks-in-length-by-robert-frost

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/it-was-summer-now-the-colored-people-came-out-into-the-sunshine-by-morgan-parker-read-by-amir-hall

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/lisa-limont-reads-warbler-by-jim

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/inside-the-stove-by-jesse-ball

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/encounter-by-czeslaw-milosz

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/instructions-on-not-giving-up-by-aida-limon

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/double-edges-travis-coe-with-a-quote-from-maya-angelou

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/poem-by-marge-piercy-from-kol-haneshma-prayer-book-read-by-andrew-ingall-from-nyc

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/hope-is-the-thing-with-feather

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/letters-to-a-young-poet-read-by-double-edges-jennifer-johnson

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/jack-golden-reading-his-to-my-theater-friends

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/joseph-river-timmons-reading-his-poem-opening-and-closing

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/emerson-clark-reading-jack-prelutskys-when-i-grow-up

https://soundcloud.com/939theriver-1/double-edges-carlos-uriona-reads-from-like-you-by-roque-dalton

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