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The Erie Canal - The Weavers - (Lyrics)
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We were forty miles from Albany forget it I never shall
what a terrible storm we had one night on the E'ri'e canal ...
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Lost Clog - First Year
A collection of memories from the Lost Clog's (Pamesta Klumpė) first year. Shown over Šiu Nakteli Par Nakteli.
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Nostalgic Glimpses from Cosmopolitan Alexandria
Cosmopolitan Alexandria is a term that is usually applied for a period in the history of the Egyptian city of alexandria lasting from [1860 -1961]....
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After 40 years, I am currently re-reading Durrell's "Alexandria Quartet" & trying to imagine his city. Thanks for the photos & music. Egypt, since Nasr, seems to have followed the path feared by Nessim & Durrell - some of my students have been the children & grandchildren of Alexandrian Greeks & ...
Gediminas Storpirštis - Sigito Gedos "Jaunikaitis"
dp sezono uždarymas. Mokytojų namai. 2009 06 05
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Yes, Geda's poems need to be set to music & popularized! They're so powerful, passionate!
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Tsiridou, Kranidas, Papatragiannis - Ena trehantiraki
Traditional song of Asia Minor.
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Your cousin
This boy’s running out of time.
His mother’s looking for him,
And the sisters too, calling -
It’s time to meet your cousin!
He’s hiding behind the garage,
Gone out for a quiet smoke,
And the Aunts are calling -
Come and meet your cousin!
O the cousin from Thesaloniki,
Her doe eye...
BELA BELA - POETS IN PRISON : Boonstra
A film about four poets who used their minds and their imagination to survive under what must be the most difficult circumstances of life - impriso...
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Is Ratušinskaja still writing? Is she being published - translated? There are no readings of her - appearances by her - on YT.
Legendary Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko Recites Work at GW
In his only public appearance during a special Washington, D.C., visit, celebrated Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko read aloud a selection of his w...
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Évtušenko is getting on. He came to Australia many years ago & read 'The City of Yes/No' & 'Zima Junction' in his expressive Russian, Frank hardy reading the English translations. It would be wonderful if he returned to Australia for a last time. I gave my first year students his 'Telling lies to...
"New York" by Valzhyna Mort
Animated poem read by Valzhyna Mort. Part of Poetry Everywhere, produced by the Poetry Foundation in association with docUWM at the University of W...
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I prefer Mort when she's reading in her own language - Gudiškai - as her English sounds too forced, too Amerikonkiškai as a calque, lacking the subtlety and supple qualities that marked her earlier poems. If anything, Mort should listen closely to how Ėvtušenko still rattles and shakes the world ...
HI! could you post the Greek song "Thallassa"? I cannot find it anywhere & my old LP has lost its grooves - worn out!