LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Discouraging Model by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 26, 2020. ------
As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during his lifetime. He was honored with annual Riley Day celebrations around the United States and was regularly called on to perform readings at national civic events. - Summary by Wikipedia
10 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Description Of A City Shower by Jonathan Swift.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 26, 2020. ------
You don't find a weather forecast like this local media. - Summary by David Lawrence
7 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Sleet by Nannie Rebecca Glass.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 2, 2020. ------
This Weekly Poem is taken from The Mountain Spring and Other Poems, pub 1913 - Summary by David Lawrence
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Dawn’s Awake! by Otto Leland Bohanan.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 9, 2020. ------
Otto Leland Bohanan was born around 1895 In Washington, D.C. He graduated from Howard University and taught English at the Catholic University. He also worked as a music instructor at DeWitt Clinton High School and died in 1932. This poem taken from James Weldon Johnson, ed. (1871–1938). The Book of American Negro Poetry. 1922. - Summary by David Lawrence
14 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Negro's Complaint by William Cowper.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 9, 2020. ------
Cowper, an English poet, wrote a poem called "The Negro's Complaint" (1788) which rapidly became very famous, and was often quoted by Martin Luther King Jr. during the 20th century civil rights movement. - Summary by Wikipedia
8 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of At the Closed Gate of Justice by James David Corrothers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 16, 2020. ------
Continuing with our February Black History Month theme, this Weekly Poem is from The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922) by James Weldon Johnson (1871 to 1938). James David Corrothers was an African-American poet, journalist, and minister whom editor T. Thomas Fortune called "the coming poet of the race." When he died, W. E. B. Du Bois eulogized him as "a serious loss to the race and to literature." - Summary by Wikipedia
6 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The End Of The Day by Duncan Campbell Scott.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 23, 2020. ------
Duncan Campbell Scott CMG FRSC was a Canadian bureaucrat, poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets. - Summary by Wikipedia
13 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Night in March by Duncan Campbell Scott.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 1, 2020. ------
Hopefully this Fortnightly poem will encourage spring to arrive. - Summary by David Lawrence
8 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Morn by Helen Hunt Jackson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 8, 2020. ------
Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.) was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. This poem about waking up in the morning is from the collection Sonnets and Lyrics (1886). ( from Wikipedia )
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Last of the Hackdrivers by Damon Runyon.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------
Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on a few of his stories. - Summary by Wikipedia
14 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dismissed by George Pope Morris .
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------
"I suppose she was right in rejecting my suit,
But why did she kick me down stairs?"
Halleck's "Discarded." (poem intro)
9 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Pause by Susanna Moodie.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 22, 2020. ------
Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. This poem is taken from ENTHUSIASM AND OTHER POEMS, By SUSANNA STRICKLAND, (NOW MRS. MOODIE.) (1821) - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you __ recordings of Uselessness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 29, 2020. ------
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." - Summary by Wikipedia
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of From the Forests by Henry Kendall.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 29, 2020. ------
Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. from the Biographical Note - The Poems of Henry Kendall
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Sea by Virna Sheard.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 5, 2020.
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One hundred and two years ago, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic claiming more than 1500 lives. This poem is a tribute to all who perished that night. - Summary by David Lawrence
23 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Not on It by Andrew Barton (“Banjo”) Paterson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 12, 2020. ------
This Weekly Poem is from the original collection SALTBUSH BILL, J.P., AND OTHER VERSES, which includes 43 poems by the author that are reprinted from various sources. The book formed part of the publisher's series of "Pocket Editions for the Trenches", designed to fit a serviceman's coat pocket. ( Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of That Night by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 19, 2020. ------
Our Weekly Poem is taken from NYE AND RILEY'S Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) BY James Whitcomb Riley & Bill Nye. (David Lawrence)
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of After Many Years by Henry Kendall.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 19, 2020. ------
Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country., from the Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens (The Poems of Henry Kendall)
18 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Magnet and The Churn by W. S. Gilbert.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 26, 2020. ------
A bit of frivolity in these trying times. This Weekly Poem is taken from Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by W. S. Gilbert. - Summary by David Lawrence
21 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Pansies by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 3, 2020. ------
Another ode to Spring and one of the popular flowers starting to bloom. Taken from Rhymes of Childhood by James Whitcomb Riley (p 1895) - Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Mother's Song by Anna Hempstead Branch.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 3, 2020. ------
A tribute to Mothers everywhere. Taken from The shoes that danced, and other poems by Anna Hempstead Branch, (pub. 1905) - Summary by David Lawrence
16 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Broken Oar by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow .
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 10, 2020. ------
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England. (Wikipedia )
25 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of Quiet by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17, 2020. ------
Cawein's description of "A log-hut in the solitude", taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3, Nature Poems. - Summary by David Lawrence
28 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Wail of the Waiter by Marcus Clarke.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 16, 2020. ------
A little something in anticipation of the day when things return to normal and folks everywhere, particularly in the hospitality industry, are back at work. - Summary by SonOfTheExiles
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 24, 2020. ------
Abbott's description of the empathic characteristics of a dog, taken from J. Earl Clauson's Collection, "The Dogs Book of Verse". - Summary by Ambsweet13
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Sleep Is Supposed To Be by Emily Dickinson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 31, 2020. ------
A description of sleep according to Emily Dickinson.
- Summary by David Lawrence
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ode To Duty by William Wordsworth.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 31, 2020 ------
“Ode to Duty” is an appeal to the principle of morality for guidance and support. This Fortnightly Poem is taken from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8) by William Wordsworth - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In A Lady's Album by Marcus Clarke.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 7, 2020. ------
Opinion is divided as to whether this poem by a notorious bohemian was sincere or whether he was trying to burnish his credentials as a lady’s man.
How you find it might well determine how you read it... - Summary by SonOfTheExiles
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Circus by Edwin C Ranck.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 14, 2020. ------
This little volume was written for no reason on earth and with no earthly reason. It just simply happened, on the principle, I suppose that "murder will out." Murder is a bad thing and so are nonsense rhymes. There is often a valid excuse for murder; there is none for nonsense rhymes. They seem to be a necessary evil to be classed with smallpox, chicken-pox, yellow fever and other irruptive diseases. They are also on the order of the boomerang and eventually rebound and inflict much suffering on the unlucky verse-slinger. So you see nonsense, like a little learning is a dangerous thing and should be handled with as much care as the shotgun which is never known to be loaded. From the Preface to Poems for Pale People, A Volume of Verse By Edwin C. Ranck.
19 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Man to Be by Edgar A. Guest.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 14, 2020. ------
A tribute to Fathers contemplating the future of their children. - Summary by David Lawrence
14 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Bee by H. P. Nichols.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 21, 2020.
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Some practical advice to a child, taken from Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories. (1851) - Summary by David Lawrence
28 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Mind's Eye by Marcus Clarke.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 28, 2020. ------
This Fortnightly Poem is taken from The Australian Edition of the Selected Works of Marcus Clarke (pub 1890)
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of A Poet Looks At The Moon (translated by E. Powys Mathers).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 28, 2020. ------
This Weekly Poem is taken from The Garden of Bright Waters by E. Powys Mathers (as translator) (pub 1920) - Summary by David Lawrence
21 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of If I knew What Poets Know by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 5, 2020. ------Riley's chief legacy was his influence in fostering the creation of a Midwestern cultural identity and his contributions to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature. With other writers of his era, he helped create a caricature of Midwesterners and formed a literary community that produced works rivaling the established eastern literati. There are many memorials dedicated to Riley, including the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children. (Wikipedia)
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Ripest Peach by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 12, 2020. ------
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 famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of White Bird of Love by Joyce Kilmer.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 12, 2020. ------
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. At the time of his deployment to Europe during World War I, Kilmer was considered the leading American Roman Catholic poet and lecturer of his generation, - Summary by Wikipedia
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Gayly Sound the Castanet by Thomas Moore.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 19, 2020. ------
Thomas Moore's description of a Maltese celebration. - Summary by David Lawrence
20 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of One Lovely Name by Walter Savage Landor.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 26, 2020.-------
Walter Savage Landor (1775 - 1864) was an English writer, poet, and activist. Today he is best known for his collection of Imaginary Conversations between historical celebrities and his pithy aphoristic verses. - Summary by Algy Pug
17 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Witnesses by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2020. ------
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. His was quite prolific, with thirty-six books and 1,500 poems to his credit. His writing presented Kentucky scenes in a language echoing Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats. He soon earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". (Wikipedia)
22 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love by Robert Bridges.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 9, 2020. ------
Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930) was the English Poet Laureate from 1913 until his death. A physician by training, he retired from practice in 1882 and devoted the remainder of his life to literary pursuits.
This poem comes from 1898 edition of a sonnet collection entitled the Growth of Love. - Summary by Algy Pug
21 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Kotri, by the River by Laurence Hope.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9, 2020. -----
Editorial note: Laurence Hope was the pen name of Adela Florence Cory Nicolson. Born in 1865, she was educated in England. At age 16 she joined her father in India, where she spent most of her adult life. In 1889 she married Col. Malcolm H. Nicolson, a man twice her age. She committed suicide two months after his death in 1904.
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Among the Rice Fields by Laurence Hope..
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 16, 2020. ------
Violet Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In 1901, she published Garden of Kama, which was published a year later in America under the title India's Love Lyrics. She attempted to pass these off as translations of various poets, but this claim soon fell under suspicion. Her poems often used imagery and symbols from the poets of the North-West Frontier of India and the Sufi poets of Persia. She was among the most popular romantic poets of the Edwardian era. Her poems are typically about unrequited love and loss and often, the death that followed such an unhappy state of affairs. Many of them have an air of autobiography or confession. (Wikipedia )
22 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 23, 2020. ------
This Weekly poem highlights Lampman's description a train station at night, "The darkness brings no quiet here," - Summary by David Lawrence
23 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Bit of Color by Arthur Macy.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 23, 2020. ------
Our Poet paints a colorful picture of Paris in 1896. - Summary by David Lawrence
14 episodes
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Summer Storm by Sara Teasdale.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 30, 2020. ------
The season is starting to wind down, here is a celebration of summer storms, taken from Flame and Shadow (1920). - Summary by David Lawrence
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