LibriVox volunteers bring you12 recordings of The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. ------
A saucy little poem about a girl with a guilt free conscience! A very prolific poet and playwright, graduate of Vasser, known for her feminist activism, Edna St. Vincent received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award. (Summary by Michele Fry)
12 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Inscription For A Stone by William Cowper.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2019. ------
INSCRIPTION FOR A STONE
Erected at the sowing of a grove of oaks at Chillington, the Seat of T. Giffard, Esq, 1790 (Poem Title)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of His Memory by Ring Lardner.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2019. ------
Another poem form Bib Ballads, a collection of poems about the author's son. - Summary by David Lawrence
21 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2019. ------
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, cannibalism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. (Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Farewells by Abram Joseph Ryan.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2019. ------
Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a Catholic priest. He has been called the "Poet-Priest of the South" and, less frequently, the "Poet Laureate of the Confederacy." - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Gift To Sing by James Weldon Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. ------
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, civil rights activist. He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson. James Weldon Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917. Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novels, and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of black culture. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 9, 2019. ------
This poem about a battlefield death is taken from Whitman's Leaves Of Grass. ( David Lawrence)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Wishes by Dora Sigerson Shorter.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 16, 2019. ------
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. This poem is taken from The Fairy Changeling and Other Poems . - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Joyful Widower by Robert Burns.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2019. ------
Most of this song is by Burns: his fancy was fierce with images of matrimonial joy or infelicity, and he had them ever ready at the call of the muse. It was first printed in the Musical Museum.] (text )
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Tom-Cat by Don Marquis.
This was the Fortnighty Poetry project for June 23, 2019. ------
A reflection on the tom-cat. - Summary by KevinS
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Long I Thought that Knowledge by Walt Whitman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2019. ------
This poem is taken from Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass"
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------
John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope by William Dean Howells.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------
A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings (Summary by Michele Fry and Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Our Mat by A. B. Paterson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2019. ------
Banjo Paterson's speculations on a piece of prison craft. This poem references The Darlinghurst Gaol, a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. Australian poet Henry Lawson spent time incarcerated there during some of the turbulent years of his life and described the gaol as Starvinghurst Gaol due to meagre rations given to the inmates. It was closed in 1914 and has subsequently been repurposed to house the National Art School. (Wilipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 21, 2019. ------
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use of imagery) established him as an innovative writer of verse. Two of his major themes were nature and religion. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Lifting Of The Mist by E. Pauline Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 28, 2019. ------
Her education was neither extensive nor elaborate, and embraced neither High School nor College. ... she acquired a wide general knowledge, having been, through childhood and early girlhood, a great reader, especially of poetry. Before she was twelve years old she had read every line of Scott's poems, every line of Longfellow, much of Byron, Shakespeare, and such books as Addison's "Spectator," Foster's Essays and Owen Meredith. (from the Biographical Sketch in Flint and Feather, Collected Verse By E. Pauline Johnson)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Tables Turned; an Evening Scene by William Wordsworth.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 28, 2019. ------
Our author is urging his friend to quit his books, get outdoors and appreciate nature. ( David Lawrence )
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Grass by Emily Dickinson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2019. ------
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. (from The Preface to POEMS by EMILY DICKINSON)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Photograph by John Charles McNeill.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 11, 2019. ------
McNeill was considered the unofficial poet laureate of his home state North Carolina until this position was established officially after World War II. His poetry enjoys enduring popularity and is favored by teachers and students for its accessibility. - Summary by Carolin
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Walking Up A Hill At Dawn by Edward Powys Mathers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 18, 2019. ------
This poem is taken from The Garden Of Bright Waters - One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic Love Poems
Translated by Edward Powys Mathers, 1920 - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Maid's Lament by Walter Savage Landor.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 25, 2109. ------
Walter Savage Landor was an English writer, poet, and activist. The critical acclaim he received from contemporary poets and reviewers was not matched by public popularity. As remarkable as his work was, it was equaled by his rumbustious character and lively temperament. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Outside Track by Henry Lawson.
his was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 25, 2019. ------
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of After A Night Of Rain by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2019. ------
An ode to September and the changing season. - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Train Window by Lola Ridge.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 8, 2019. ------
Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and collected in five books of poetry. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Bettesworth's Exultation Upon hearing that his name would be transmitted to posterity in Dr. Swift's works, by William Dunkin by Jonathan Swift.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 15, 2019. ------
Jonathan Swift, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Weed or Flower by Helen Leah Reed.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2019. ------
American teacher and author; known for her children's books, which were entertaining as well as educative, the best remembered being her Brenda series of novels. - Summary by Wikisource
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Market Women's Cries by Jonathan Swift.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 23, 2019. ------
Here is another Jonathan Swift poem, this time he reflects on the old English Market and the cries of the merchants. - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Thunder-Storm by Emily Dickinson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2019. ------
A tribute to autumn storms. - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of October by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2019. ------
Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the ideals of English middle-class life. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Job Work by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 13, 2019. ------
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". (Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Retrospection by George A. Baker Jr..
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 13, 2019. ------
This Fortnightly Poem is taken from POINT LACE AND DIAMONDS by George Baker Jr. (Summary by David Lawrence)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Hallowe'en by Virna Sheard.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 20, 2019. ------
A tribute to Hallowe'en by Canadian poetess Virna Sheard. - Summary by David Lawrence
19 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Premonition by Bliss Carman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 27, 2019. ------
William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years. (Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Transposed Seasons by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 3, 2019. ------Mr. Cawein's landscape is not the sea, nor the desert, nor the mountain, but the lovely inland levels of his Kentucky. His work is almost wholly objective. A dash more of human import mixed into the beauty and melody of his poetry would rank him with Lowell and the other great lyrists of our elder choir." (Rose de Vaux-Royer from the Forward of The Cup Of Comus, Fact and Fancy by Madison Cawein)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Voice Of The Banjo by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 3, 2019. ------
What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They had felt, as I felt, that however gifted his race had proven itself in music, in oratory, in several of the other arts, here was the first instance of an American negro who had evinced innate distinction in literature. In my criticism of his book ... So far as I could remember, Paul Dunbar was the only man of pure African blood and of American civilization to feel the negro life aesthetically and express it lyrically. (W. D. HOWELLS from the Introduction to Lyrics of Lowly Life)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Nocturne: In Anjou by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 10, 2019. ------
Richard Hovey collaborated with Canadian poet Bliss Carman on three volumes of "tramp" verse: Songs from Vagabondia (1894), More Songs from Vagabondia (1896), and Last Songs from Vagabondia (1900), the last being published after Hovey's death. Hovey and Carman were members of the "Visionists" social circle along with F. Holland Day and Herbert Copeland, who published the "Vagabondia" series. (Wikipedia) - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 17, 2019. ------
Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Thanksgiving Dream by Joseph Crosby Lincoln.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 17, 2019. ------
A humorous LibriVox look at Thanksgiving.
Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied with "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Jungle Flower by Laurence Hope.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 24, 2019. ------
Laurence Hope is the pseudonym of English poet Adela Florence Nicolson. - Summary by David Lawrence
13 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Trifles by John Charles McNeill.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 1, 2019. ------
Many years before the position was established, poet and journalist John Charles McNeill was unofficially called North Carolina's Poet Laureate and while official permission from the legislature to name a poet laureate came in 1935, no one was actually appointed to the position until 1948. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Main Street by Joyce Kilmer.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 1, 2019. ------
Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 of A Christmas Letter by Helen Leah Reed.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 8, 2019. ------
The trials of writing thank you notes. - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Christmastide by E. Pauline Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 15, 2019. ------
Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwake –pronounced: dageh-eeon-wageh, literally: 'double-life') commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Christmas by Susan Coolidge.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 15, 2019. ------
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Woolsey worked as a nurse during the American Civil War (1861–1865), after which she started to write.
She is best known for her classic children's novel What Katy Did (1872). The fictional Carr family was modeled after her own, with Katy Carr inspired by Woolsey herself. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Kingsley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 22, 2019. ------
Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor, social reformer, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with Christian socialism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives that failed but led to the working reforms of the progressive era. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 30, 2019. ------
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth's volume Poems (1844) brought her great success, attracting the admiration of the writer Robert Browning. Their correspondence, courtship and marriage were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. ( Wikipedia )
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Rest by John Sullivan Dwight.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 5, 2020.. ------
John Sullivan Dwight was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist, and America's first influential classical music critic. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Looking Back by John Hartley.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 5, 2020.. ------
John Hartley was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose and poetry – often of a sentimental nature – dealing with the poverty of the district. He was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire. - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Song—'' When Love came first to Earth.'' by Thomas Campbell.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 12, 2020. ------
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. He also produced several stirring patriotic war songs—"Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and in 1801, "The Battle of Mad and Strange Turkish Princes". ( Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Roast Beef by Gertrude Stein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 19, 2020. ------
The last stanza of the prose poem Roastbeef, part of 'Food', taken from Stein's book Tender Buttons (1914), consisting of three sections titled "Objects", "Food", and "Rooms". While the short book consists of multiple poems covering the everyday mundane, Stein's experimental use of language renders the poems unorthodox and their subjects unfamiliar. - Summary by David Lawrence
Roastbeef by Gertrude Stein
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