
The Greg Brownderville Dimension
This channel celebrates and investigates the magic of language in folklore, mysticism, music, poetry, and everyday life. Greg Brownderville—the host—is the lead singer of Beekeeper Spaceman, the creator of Fire Bones, the author of three books of poetry, Editor-in-Chief of Southwest Review, and Professor of English at SMU in Dallas.
The Greg Brownderville Dimension
GBD15: Poems for Autumn
The scorching triple-digit heat in Texas (where I live) certainly isn't giving anyone a fall feeling, so I'm turning to autumnal poetry to change the emotional weather. In this episode I read and discuss seven poems that convey the enchantment of autumn.
I recorded the video for this episode with my phone in a hotel room; forgive the less-than-amazing video quality.
Links to the poems I read in this video:
"Autumn" by T. E. Hulme
https://poets.org/poem/autumn-3
"First Fall" by Maggie Smith
https://apoemaday.tumblr.com/post/699315826656952320/first-fall
"Beyond the Red River" by Thomas McGrath
https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2021-2022/poem-week/beyond-red-river-thomas-mcgrath
"Plums" by Gillian Clarke
https://www.best-poems.net/gillian-clarke/plums.html
"Beginning" by James Wright
https://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/beginning/
"Theme in Yellow" by Carl Sandburg
https://poets.org/poem/theme-yellow
"Neighbors in October" by David Baker
https://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org/columns/detail/5