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  One and Two

  Will Carleton

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  This was the Fortnightly Poetry for November 10, 2013.Read in English by Alan Weyman; CaprishaPage; Drew Johnson; David Lawrence; Ernst Pattynama; Garrett Fitzgerald; Jason Mills; Jannie Meisberger; Julia Niedermaier; John Sercel; Jacob Paul Starr; mlcui; ravenotation and Savannah.William McKendree Carleton was an American poet, best known for his poems about his rural life.

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  No One to Wake

  Marilyn C. O'Leary

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  In No One to Wake, Marilyn C. O’Leary shares "a bouquet of mourning" the death of her husband of 50 years. This audiobook of poetry is beyond beautiful. And one needn’t have been married for 50 years, or married at all, to feel softly wrapped in the understanding of how it feels to lose someone you love deeply. Both pain and transcendence are painted in her poems, plus the naturalness and magic of death itself: "...you took your leave breathing like a fish, swimming out into an ocean of darkness and love." She also addresses the guilty urge to look back and question whether she did enough, whether she was enough: "The recipe for my life had ingredients you didn’t like," and then acknowledges that "our relationship was whole." 
   
  And then there’s the need to go on. She recognizes the "freedom" that comes from loss; "sadness an opening...[to] find yourself unwrapped. I could do anything, be anything, go anywhere," she writes, "[but] what if it wasn’t you who kept me tethered? In this audiobook, O’Leary takes us from the dark folds of anguish where we’re sometimes drawn towards death ourselves, to the realization that "the answer to all is Life."

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  The Poetry of June

  Emily Dickinson, John Dryden,...

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  JUNE - the sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official beginning of Summer.  The days stretch to their longest and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our Poets such as  Dryden, Levy, Raleigh, Blunt and Dickenson as they describe the warming days. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; June - An Introduction; Knee Deep In June By James Whitcomb Riley; A June Tide Echo By Amy Levy; June By William Cullen Bryant; There Is A June When Corn Is Cut By Emily Dickinson; Sweet Empty Sky of June By Henry Vaughan; June 14th By Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper; Dusk In June By Sara Teasdale; Wishes Of An Elderly Man Wished At A Garden Party, June 1914 By Walter Alexander Raleig; A Man Young And Old By William Butler Yeats; The Human Seasons By John Keats; June Night By Sara Teasdale; The Longest Day By William Wordsworth; A June Night By Emma Lazarus; Pleasure's Past By John Clare; A Night In June By James Edwin Campbell; A Night In June By Alfred Austin; A Match By Algernon Swinburne; Hymn For The Dedication Of Memorial Hall At Cambridge June 23rd 1874 By Oliver Wendell Holmes; June A Tale By William Cowper; June At Woodruff By James Whitcomb Riley; June By Horatio Alger Jr; All In June By William Henry Davies; Hymn For St John's Eve The 29th June By John Henry Dryden; Beachey Head By Charlotte Smith; Our Fathers Also By Rudyard Kipling; I Am Your Father By Daniel Sheehan; At The Royal Academy By Thomas Hardy; Boat By Rabindranath Tagore.

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  Exodus: The Shanghai Jews

  Kate McAll

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  As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China.  
   
  In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land. 
   
  Funding for this presentation is provided in part by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, and The I. Michael Kasser Trust: Michael and Beth Kasser. 
   
  Special thanks to Prof. Steve Hochstadt for his generosity in sharing his research and recordings to help create this work. 
   
  Recorded at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in June 2023. 
   
  Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring: 
   
  Edyta Brychta as Lisbeth Loewenberg 
  Michael Canavan as Herbert Greening  
  Shannon Cochran as Ilse Greening 
  Arye Gross as Gerard Kohbieter  
  Anna Mathias as Trude Reisman  
  Alan Shearman as Paul Reisman 
  André Sogliuzzo as Ernest Culman 
  Joanne Whalley as Melitta Colland. 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Recording Engineers, Mark Holden and Charles Carroll 
  Sound Design by Mark Holden 
  Editing and Mixing Engineer, Charles Carroll  
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin

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  Leaves

  Sara Teasdale

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  Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier and the temperature cools considerably. One of its main features is the shedding of leaves from deciduous trees.In North America, autumn is usually considered to start with the September equinox (21 or 22) and end with the winter solstice (21 or 22 December). (Wikipedia)

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  Fire and Ice

  Robert Frost

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

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