Every spring, I be a part of forces with my buddies at Pioneer Works for an unbelievable concept that started in 2017 and has taken on a lifetime of its personal: The Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of the science and splendor of nature by means of poetry.
With our sleeves rolled up and sweat-soaked in preparation for the 2020 virtual edition (“trailer” here), and with the world surprised and stilled and seeking to fill the blur of days below quarantine with one thing of substance and succor, we’ve got launched the complete recording of the 2019 present, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Sir Arthur Eddington’s historic eclipse expedition to Africa, which confirmed relativity and catapulted Einstein into movie star. “Pricey Mom, joyous information right now,” Einstein wrote upon receiving phrase of the outcomes, which revolutionized our understanding of the universe and formed the course of contemporary physics. The scientific triumph was additionally a heartening, humane second — simply after the shut of World Struggle I, a pacifist English Quaker, who had refused to be drafted within the struggle on the threat of being jailed for treason, and a German Jew united humanity below the identical sky, below the deepest truths of the universe. An invite to perspective within the largest sense.
The present — a night of poems, music, and tales about eclipses, relativity, spacetime, and Einstein’s legacy, that includes readings by musicians David Byrne, Regina Spektor, Amanda Palmer, Emily Wells, and Josh Groban, astrophysicists Janna Levin and Natalie Batalha, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Marilyn Nelson, actor Natascha McElhone, theoretical cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander, comic Chuck Good, choreographer Invoice T. Jones, On Being host Krista Tippett, and the inimitable Neil Gaiman studying an unique poem generously composed for the event — was a monumental labor of affection, with each single individual concerned donating their time and expertise, and all proceeds from the tickets benefiting Pioneer Works’ endeavor to construct New York’s first-ever public observatory, a dome of risk for future Eddingtons and Einsteins.
Each the expensive manufacturing and this recording had been made attainable totally by donations. Please get pleasure from — and if it provides you some perspective, some aid, maybe even some rapture, do think about supporting this labor of affection with a donation to Pioneer Works to offset among the prices, assist us construct that dome of risk, and make future universes attainable.
Discover the whole present and the complete poem playlist beneath:
- “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer” by Walt Whitman and poem #1397 by Emily Dickinson, learn by Janna Levin
- “Training” by Elizabeth Alexander, learn by the poet herself
- “Hubble Photographs: After Sappho” by Adrienne Wealthy, learn by Amanda Palmer
- “Theories of Everything” by Rebecca Elson, learn by Regina Spektor
- “A Photo voltaic Eclipse” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, learn by Natascha McElhone
- Musical interlude: Amanda Palmer
- “As If to Exhibit an Eclipse” by Billy Collins, learn by Chick Good
- “Attaining Perspective” by Pattiann Rogers, learn by David Byrne
- “The Shampoo” by Elizabeth Bishop, learn by me
- Musical interlude: Regina Spektor
- “Research” by Cecilia Payne, learn by Natalie Batalha
- “Faster Than Light” by Marilyn Nelson, learn by the poet herself
- “Explaining Relativity” by Rebecca Elson, learn by Stephon Alexander
- “Poem to My Child, If Ever You Shall Be” by Ross Homosexual, learn by Invoice T. Jones
- “After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics” by W.H. Auden, learn by Josh Groban
- “Figures of Thought” by Howard Nemerov, learn by Krista Tippett
- “In Transit” by Neil Gaiman, learn by Neil Gaiman
- “Einstein’s Daughter” by Jennifer Clement, learn by Emily Wells
- Musical finale: Emily Wells
You will discover the complete recordings of earlier seasons, and livestream particulars for the upcoming present, on this page.
ALSO: My buddies at Pioneer Works have simply launched their very own publication, delving into their archives to ship among the world’s fiercest and most fertile minds — scientists and artists, Nobel laureates and Pulitzer-winning authors — in dialog and contemplation on the fringe of our seek for reality and our starvation for which means, straight to your inbox. Be a pioneer and give it a try — I promise it will likely be spare and great.
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