>would you like a napkin

This terrific poem is topical in so many depressing ways...

W S Merwin, "Questions to Tourists Stopped by a Pineapple Field"
Audio: https://voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62270
Text: https://merwinconservancy.org/2018/06/questions-to-tourists-stopped-by-a-pineapple-field-by-w-s-merwin/

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> do you think there is a future in pineapple

Martin Espada - "Floaters"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc-jsSD3-Ec

Poem inspired by media reports of a father and daughter found drowned in the Rio Grande, 2019

Text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151158/floaters-5d8d0d07466b9

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Saeed Jones, "Kudzu"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9noMEG6-IZU

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Edit: and here's the written text...
https://poets.org/poem/kudzu

And :
"The winter of love is a cellar of empty bins,
In an orchard soft with rot."

Edna St Vincent's Millay's "Never may the fruit be plucked"
https://soundcloud.com/poets-org/edna-st-vincent-millay-never-may-the-fruit-be-plucked

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"The trees are coming into leaf
Like something almost being said"

The Trees - Philip Larkin
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/trees/

(Thinking ahead to spring, already...)

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Claudia Rankine - from the amazing multi-genre book "Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric" (2004)

Audio: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/play/76907
Text:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57802/dont-let-me-be-lonely-at-the-airport-security-checkpoint

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T.S. Eliot reads "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock"
https://soundcloud.com/brainpicker/t-s-eliot-reads-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock

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My first thought was Bub Bridger - I once saw her give an after-dinner poetry reading to a public health workers' conference, and her reading held everyone spellbound... But couldn't access any of her recordings.

My next thought was the wonderful Lauris Edmond. It's not RockAndRoll but it's a terrific poem, "Going to Moscow":
https://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/sounds/moscow.mp3
(Text only: https://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/lauris/moscow.asp)

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And this was the first poem I remember wanting to argue with (3rd form English, with thanks to Miss Venner)

Robert Graves
The Cool Web

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmL5b7C6ZbU
(audio and text)

(you can hear Graves himself read it, here - fifth track in: https://archive.org/details/RTFM-Harp-940607)

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Philip Levine, "The Two":
https://lannan.org/media/philip-levine-with-kate-daniels - *poem starts at 37:02*

Written text only:
https://anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2015/12/13/guest-blog-post-endings-and-legacies-by-naomi-jaffa/ *scroll down for "the Two"

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Edna St Vincent Millay - 'Only until this cigarette is ended' (read by Tyne Daly): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOpgpEHNkn4

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'So perhaps it is not dark inside after all...'

Charles Simic reading "Stone" -
https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pe11.rla.genre.poetry.simstone/stone-by-charles-simic/

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Nessa O'Mahony reads Eavan Boland's poem "This moment".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZJ7VPR0zU

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CD Wright's "Flame" (contains trees!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j554nklZLwY

[Text only here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51055/flame-56d22e8d6c815]

Also, the beginning of her "Casting Deep Shade":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avxuE8-Iq1Q