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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Sep 17

Questions of Travel. Reading of Elizabeth Bishop's poem.

Follow the link to hear the poem.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Vo...

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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Sep 11

The Poetry Project

The Poetry Project is an audio magazine that aims to upload poetry readings, as well as appreciations and commentaries on poets and poetry. We are taking submissions from poets who want to present the...

America - William Page - Read by the Poet

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Aug 28

America in the mouth of a tyrant
is not America...

e e cummings - I like my body when it is with your - Read by William Page

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Aug 20

e e cummings reading
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Orpheus and Eurydice - William Page - Read by Maria Machado

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

Read by the actress Maria Machado
Original Music composed and performed by Guillaue Tiger

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August Moon - William Page - Read by the Poet

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Aug 10

New poem on the Poetry Project.

Let Us Make a Noise - William Page

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Aug 4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zvP...

When are we going to stop being fooled?
When are they going to feel the burden
of their hate? When are they going to hear
the vacancy of their blustering talk?
They should have stayed in their mansions,
should have lived out their entitled lives...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KZ0...

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 26

#nuclearwar
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A recurring dream I used to have as a young man.

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 26

A Dream - William Page - Read by Maria Machado

Farewell - William Page - Read by the Poet

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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 21

To listen to the poem on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2M...

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 21

To listen to the poem on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm2M...

Better Than a Crown - William Page

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 21

There is a tenderness deeper than these words,
deeper than the power I have to express—
it goes out to you unsettled...

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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am not a prince with a wide influence
and the means to effect a change, nor a visionary
of where men will spend their money,
but whatever the cause of this empathic gene
I stand by it as something like a seed
that promises germination and light...

Osip Mandelstam - Winter to some.. Read in English Translation by William Page

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Mandelstam in English translation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLgD...

Osip Mandelstam - Winter to some... Read in the original Russian by Alexie Lobkov

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 16

Mandelstram in Russian

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7pD...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxp4...

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jul 13

For the Love of Humanity - William Page

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jun 18

I will be starting an audio magazine on YouTube at the end of the month. This poem is read by the actress Maria Machado. We hope to attract poets reading their work and the work of other poets, as well as actors, or anybody who wants to try. More later.

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Jun 18

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

She took the morning with her,
and left only the afternoon’s glare.
I’ll miss the brightness of her eyes
and the wave of her short brown hair.

I’ll miss the way she smiled at me
without having anything to say,
but, most of all, I’ll miss the coolness
of the shade she swept away.

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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

She did not know the full moon,
or the sudden swoop of the owl.
She did not know the loneliness
of the coyote’s mournful howl.

Bare-legged, in a green dress,
with sandals on her feet,
she swept around my porch and left
only the sun’s brilliant heat.

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willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

with a southern disposition
and a halo of yellow light
she chased away the morning breeze
and the coolness left by the night.

She wished only to be where she was;
she wished only to be sweeping.
She did not know the night’s abyss,
or understand the voice of weeping.

willpagepoet.bsky.social @willpagepoet.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hello. I am looking to befriend poets. I am starting a YouTube channel, Poetry Project. A short poem to begin

THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS

The girl in the green dress came
sweeping around my porch today.
With a broom of broken sunlight
and branches she swept the shade away...