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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)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of 'A Popular Personage at Home' by Thomas Hardy. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 15, 2023. ------ A dog's point of view? - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Woodland Halló by Robert Bloomfield. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 21, 2021. ------ Robert Bloomfield was an English labouring-class poet, whose work is appreciated in the context of other self-educated writers, such as Stephen Duck, Mary Collier and John Clare. One of his early duties, when he was sent to London to work as a shoemaker, was to read the papers aloud while the others in the workshop were working, and he became particularly interested in the poetry section of The London Magazine. - Summary by Wikipedia

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

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

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Over The Roofs by Sara Teasdale. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 28, 2025. ------ Sara Trevor Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Rivers to the Sea, Teasdale's third poetry collection. It was published in 1915 and has been a bestseller ever since, being reprinted several times. - Summary by David Lawrence

NOTES: "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a perpetual affront to his exacting self-predominance, and whose suppression, by his command, has made the vacancy he is now, in his interview with the envoy for a new match, taking precaution to fill more acceptably. (Dramatic Romances by Robert Browning)

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.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. ------ This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!) taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume V, Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field. - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Dusk in the Woods by Madison Cawein. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 12, 2024 ------ Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. Although he gained an international reputation, he has been eclipsed as the genre of poetry in which he worked became increasingly outmoded. - Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To An April Daisy by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 13, 2025. ------ John Clare was an English poet. His biographer Jonathan Bate called Clare "the greatest labouring-class poet that England has ever produced. No one has ever written more powerfully of nature, of a rural childhood, and of the alienated and unstable self." - Summary by Wikipedia

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American ("Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new eras in their brains") were inscribed on a granite wall at the United States Air Force Academy to inspire cadets and officers, but they were removed in 2003 to harmonize in perception to the Air Force Academy's having become coeducational. - Summary by Wikipedia

Tropischer Regenwald, Peru. 99% Luftfeuchtigkeit, die Luft steht. Grillen zirpen, Moskitos stechen. Und mittendrin: Ein Tisch, zwei Mikros, zwei Menschen – und jede Menge Stories im Gepäck. Wildbaden – der Expeditionspodcast von Wilderness International nimmt dich mit auf eine erschwerliche, emotionale und überraschend komische Forschungsreise an den artenreichsten Ort der Erde – den tropischen Regenwald in Peru – mit Menschen, die nicht weniger divers als seine Tier- und Pflanzenwelt sind: Forschende, Umweltschützer:innen, Naturfilmer und Locals.

LibriVox readers bring you 19 recordings of The Red Cross Spirit Speaks by John H. Finley.At this time of year, all around the world, we remember the fallen and those who served their countries in time of war and other calamity. This poem reminds us of the dedication of the Red Cross, and the comfort they brought and, together with the Red Crescent, still bring, to the wounded, dying and distressed. John Huston Finley headed the Red Cross Commission in Palestine during the First World War.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 5, 2021. ------ The Castled Crag at Drachenfels is a 4-verse poem embedded in Canto 3 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron. It is thought to be addressed to his half-sister Augusta Leigh, by whom he was believed to have fathered a child. The Drachenfels crag overlooks the town of Kornigswinter on the river Rhine in Germany, just south of Bonn. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

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

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Siberia by James Clarence Mangan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 2, 2012.James Clarence Mangan wad born in Dublin. He was educated at a Jesuit school where he learned the rudiments of Latin, Spanish, French, and Italian. He attended three different schools until the age of fifteen. Obliged to find a job in order to support his family, he became a lawyer's clerk, and was later an employee of the Ordnance Survey and an assistant in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. (Summary from Wikipedia)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. He predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas. He has been criticized, however, for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)