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A Tree with a Bird in it

Margaret Widdemer (1884 - 1978)

Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a poem based on the aforementioned topic. Summary by MLeigh.

Genre(s): Single author

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 00	Forward	mleigh	00:02:06
Play 01	Resignation by Jessie B. Rittenhouse	Stefan Von Blon	00:00:58
Play 02	The Bird with the Woe by Edwin Markham	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:00:51
Play 03	The Unity of Oneness by Witter Bynner	mleigh	00:01:17
Play 04	Oiseaurie by Amy Lowell	Siu	00:00:50
Play 05	Imri Swazey by Edgar Lee Masters	Phil Schempf	00:01:09
Play 06	Rambuncto by Edwin Arlington Robinson	Phil Schempf	00:01:53
Play 07	The Bird Misunderstood by Robert Frost	mleigh	00:01:22
Play 08	Chicago Memories by Carl Sandburg	Ryan Godley	00:02:26
Play 09	Frost and Sandburg Tonight by Edith M. Thomas	Victoria	00:01:01
Play 10	The Unquiet Singer by Charles Hanson Towne	Tom Merritt	00:02:00
Play 11	At Autumn by Sara Teasdale	Stefan Von Blon	00:00:46
Play 12	Rainuv by Ezra Pound	Tom Merritt	00:03:40
Play 13	The Sighing Tree by Margaret Widdemer	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:00:54
Play 14	Ballade of Spring Chickens by Richard Le Gallienne	Ryan Godley	00:02:15
Play 15	Oh! Bird! by Angela Morgan	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:01:08
Play 16	The Charnel Bird by Conrad Aiken	Liam Knowles	00:01:27
Play 17	A Young Girl to a Young Bird by Mary Carolyn Davies	Liam Knowles	00:00:53
Play 18	The Rune of the Nude by Marguerite Wilkinson	Liam Knowles	00:01:22
Play 19	Admiration by Aline Kilmer	Isabella Paul	00:01:27
Play 20	The Grackle of Grog by William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet	benjihess	00:01:44
Play 21	Preenings by Lola Ridge	Yuhan L Jiang	00:01:41
Play 22	Tea o' Herbs by Edna St. Vincent Millay	Nichole James	00:01:41
Play 23	The Weaver Bird by John V. A. Weaver	altrin	00:01:41
Play 24	Sonnet: Trees Are Not Ships by David Morton	AnthonyT	00:01:06
Play 25	The Grackle Is the Loon by Elinor Wylie	AnthonyT	00:00:45
Play 26	A Landscape Gets Personal by Leonora Speyer	AnthonyT	00:00:45
Play 27	The Symposium Leading Nowhere by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson	Nichole James	00:01:39
Play 28	The Fowl of a Thousand Flights by Ridgely Torrence	Lan Kao	00:01:42
Play 29	The Roiling of Henry by Henry van Dyke	Lan Kao	00:01:54
Play 30	Pantings by Cale Young Rice	Tom Merritt	00:02:36
Play 31	The Wild by Bliss Carman	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:01:15
Play 32	They See the Birdie by Grace Hazard and Hilda Conkling	ABVoice	00:01:30
Play 33	A Ballad of the Bird Dance of Pierrette by Theodosia Garrison	Tom Merritt	00:02:53
Play 34	Pierrette Remembers an Engagement by William Griffith	Tom Merritt	00:01:17
Play 35	Ain't Nature Wonderful! by Edgar Guest	Ryan Godley	00:01:02
Play 36	The Meeting of the Columns by Don Marquis	Tom Merritt	00:03:06
Play 37	The Mocking-Hoarse-Bird by Christopher Morley	mleigh	00:03:21
Play 38	To a Grackle by Franklin Pierce Adams	mleigh	00:01:26
Play 39	Carlo the Gardener by Thomas Augustin Daly	mleigh	00:01:27
Play 40	The Hoboken Grackle and the Hobo by Vachel Lindsay	Tom Merritt	00:03:12
Play 41	Dies Illa: A Bird of a Masque by Percy Mackaye, Josephine Preston Peabody, and Isabel Fiske Conant	Joanna Michal Hoyt	00:11:10
Play 42	A Tree with a Bird in It: Rhymed Review by Arthur Guiterman	Stefan Von Blon	00:02:11

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