Jeffery Beam, reading and singing--listen up, world! In our culture, poets tend to be invisible, but here's a good look at Jeffery. Links below.
"This [3-part] reading offers a range of poetry, songs, and reflections from Jeffery Beam’s career – from the age of 17 to the present – as well as poems and songs from others, to illuminate his life-long conversation with the Divine in Nature. A troubadour poet, he is the author of over 20 works of poetry and sung poems in books and CDs, and is a photographer, editor, and critic. The reading was part of the Faith and the Arts series at St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, North Carolina. Recorded October 18, 2015."
Four recent books by Beam at Lady Word of Mouth: http://ladywordofmouth.blogspot.com/…/four-recent-books-by- Jeffery's website at UNC: http://www.unc.edu/~jeffbeam/ More poems by Jeffery, picked by former NC poet laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer of Cullowhee, here: http://ncpoetlaureate.blogspot.com/…/poet-of-week-jeffery-b
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St. Matthews Episcopal Church
October 18, 2015
This reading offers a range of poetry, songs, and reflections from Jeffery Beam’s career – from the age of 17 to the present – as well as poems and songs from others, to illuminate his life-long conversation with the Divine in Nature. A troubadour poet, he is the author of over 20 works of poetry and sung poems in books and CDs, and is a photographer, editor, and critic. The reading was part of the Faith and the Arts series at St Matthews Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, North Carolina. Recorded October 18, 2015.
Beyond the Green Door Part 1
21:50 minutes
https://youtu.be/yBSS6AIgRu8
List of works read or sung:
Intro - Mary Rocap
In the Mimosa Tree
The Gift (sung poem)
Sit, be still (Rumi)
Mauve
This is My Father's World (old hymn, slightly renewed)
The Loom
To see a world (Wm Blake)
Breath (Kabir, Bly translation)
If I were a starfish
Credo
I Have Never Wanted
Beyond the Green Door Part 2
20:41 minutes
https://youtu.be/_Lu0CwgzNUw
List of works read or sung:
An Invocation
Walking on Apples
The Goodbye Nest
Bluebird
Bobwhite
Findings
What I Know about Poetry
The Song (sung poem)
Millennium Approaches
The Sting
Ars Poetica: The Queen
The Swarm
Snake in Autumn
The Man Who Ate Butterflies
The Crab King
Beyond the Green Door Part 3
25:15 minutes
https://youtu.be/WJFQk9SNRts
List of works read or sung:
The Whale
Bluets
Paradiso
Thrush's Parable
Adam's Gospel
The Broken Flower
Lullaby of the Farm (song)
A Stone Falling, a Falling Stone
Sunlight of No Light (African-American gospel song, from Gospel at Colonus)
Who Will Sing for Me (old bluegrass gospel)
St. Jerome in His Study
Annunciation
Told in a Dream
Shedding the Old Self
Pale Horse (sung poem in form of Old Scottish Ballad)
John the Baptist