The Five Senses: TOUCH

TOUCH

LITERATURE
Diane Ackerman “Natural History of the Senses”
Christine Hemp “An Abstract Art”
Marie Howe “Practicing”
Stephen Dunn, “Tenderness”
Brian McGrath “Mad Nude Mommies”
Jack Gilbert “Music is in the Piano Only When it is Played”

MUSIC
James Brown “I Feel Good”
Imogen Heap, “Hide and Seek”
Rufus Wainwright singing Leonard Cohen “Everybody Knows” from “ “
Billie Holiday Holiday, “Sweet Embraceable You”
Stan Getz
Low Anthem, “Oh, My God, Charlie Darwin”
Mary McCaslin, “A Prairie in the Sky”
Raul Midon, “If You Gonna Leave”
Frederick Chopin, Etude

 

THE EAR

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“THE EAR”

POEMS
Stanley Kunitz “The Round”
Christine Hemp “Outgrowing My Body”
Robert Frost “Mending Wall”
Celia Rose Langford “Spring”
Sandy Diamond “Identity” from her CD Quasimodo and the Bellringers with Bruce Cannavaro, Bruce Cowan, and David George Gordon
Marvin Bell “Poem after Carlos
Drummond de Andrade”

MUSIC

Josh White “One Meat Ball” Josh White Sings The Blues & Sings Volumes 1 & 2 1995 Collectibles label
Nico Muhly “Mothertongue” from “Mothertongue” 2008 Brassland Records
John Rutter “Choral Fanfare” from the album “Te Deum” City of London Sinfonia 1993
Bud Shank “How are things in Glocca Morra” and “On Green Dolphin Street” (1980 Concord Jazz)
J.S. Bach allegro movement of Brandenburg Concerto #5  Collegium Stuttgart;  Hanssler Classics 1999
David Byrne “Like Humans Do” from “Look Into the Eyeball (Virgin 2001)

About Christine Hemp

Poet and writer Christine Hemp has aired her poems and essays on NPR’s Morning Edition; she has sent a poem of hers into space on a NASA mission to monitor the birth of stars; and her essays have appeared in such publications as the Iowa Review, Yale Anglers Journal, and the Boston Globe. Her awards include Harvard Extension School’s Conway Award for Teaching Writing, a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, and an Iowa Review Award. Her poetry collection, That Fall, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Hemp teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival.
Poems and Ponderings

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