Tuesday Poem – The Red Wheelbarrow or xxi (William Carlos Williams)

As I have just discovered how to embed YouTube clips into my blog posts, and I have got rather overexcited about the prospect of this (which I’m sure will wear off rather too quickly), I thought this week’s Tuesday Poem should be a poetry clip. I must say, I find a lot of YouTube poetry clips a bit vanilla, normally, they simply slap a photograph of the poet on the screen and then we hear the poet reading from this inert photograph or, sometimes, horror-of-horrors, it’s not even the poet reading, but a random post-er of poetry. However, I found this animated clip some weeks ago, and I thought it perfectly matched the William Carlos Williams wheelbarrow poem (or xxi, to be precise, as it was untitled in the original publication of Spring and All and the poems were simply numbered) – word and image. I think Williams would have approved. Oh, and it is WCW reading the poem – you can tell because the recording is a tad fuzzy. Take a gander!

This week’s featured Tuesday Poem at the hub is a stark, haunting prose poem from talented US poet, Holly Iglesias. Take some time to read her poem that she has so kindly shared or any other of the poems along the sidebar at the Tuesday Poem hub.