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  The Span of a Small Forever - Poems

  April Gibson

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  With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. 
  With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart, April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness.  
  Gibson offers a unique perspective on “the body,” viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. Through gorgeous sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness to grief, courage, and resistance to redefine herself on her own terms.   
  Gibson presents her body as a “looking glass” that re-envisions illness, womanhood, motherhood, religious relics and collective loss through her physicality, through her lamenting, through her unearthing, reckoning and rebirth. Not only do we see her, but see the “we” in her. The Span of a Small Forever is both testimony and transformation—heart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives.

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  Tam O'Shanter - Burns had a way...

  Robert Burns

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  Many nations have produced outstanding poets who they would gladly have represent their Culture.  But can any Nation say they have an equivalent of Robbie Burns?  Rabbie. The Ploughman Poet.  The Bard (Of Scotland).  This one poet is indelibly linked and intertwined with the culture and people of Scotland.  His life, loves, politics, verse and songs speak as them and for them.  
  From humble roots, the eldest son of seven born in 1759 to parents, both from tenant farming stock, the family endured both hardship and poverty.   Burns endured the test and began to write first at 15 and to publish his first volume some two years later.    
  He wrote in both true Scottish, dialect and English as well as turning his hand to song.  Politically he was an inspiration to both liberalism and socialism as well as a Scottish parliament.  His unique ability enabled him to appeal to all and quite rightly to be viewed as the National poet.    
  As well as creating his own great works he was also an avid collector of Scottish Folk Songs preserving for posterity the works of others.  
  However his own life was short dying at the young age of only 37.   What further greatness would have lain before him is impossible to say.  But, poetically, on the day of his death his son, Maxwell was born.    
  His fame today is worldwide and celebrated in January each year with the Traditional Burns night.  Each New Years Eve friends and families the world over link arms to ‘Auld Lang Syne’, giving immortality to his words and aims.  
  As former Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan says:  Burn’s poems dignify and illuminate the struggle faced by the vast majority of the world’s population today.

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  Rhyme A Dozen A - Life - 12...

  Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
   
  1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Life - An Introduction 
  2 - If by Rudyard Kipling 
  3 - A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  4 - The Life of Love - Spring by Khalil Gibran 
  5 - Stream of Life by Tagore 
  6 - As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life by Walt Whitman 
  7 - Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare 
  8 - Life by Sir Walter Raleigh 
  9 - Life by Sarojini Naidu 
  10 - The Two Guides of Life - The Sublime and the Beautiful by Fredrich Schiller 
  11 - Hope is the Thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  12 - Life is a Privilege by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  13 - The Guesthouse by Rumi

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  Artaban and the Quest for the...

  Jason Markiewitz, Henry van Dyke

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  Upon his return home from the battlefields of Europe in 1918, Col Blackwood, a UK Army infantry officer, is reunited with his family on Christmas Eve after nearly four years away. In the midst of telling his children a bedtime story, we learn of Artaban, a Magi priest, and the fourth wise man to present gifts to the newborn King. As a result of dissension among his fellow Magians, Artaban has no other choice but to embark on this journey alone. Though his quest is fraught with challenges along the way that test his courage and stir his compassion, his faith never wavers.Artaban and the Quest for the King is based upon the 1895 novella "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry Van Dyke.  Jason Markiewitz adapted the story and developed the script used in this production.  This dramatization is performed by a full cast of international, award-winning voice actors and is surrounded by majestic sounds and cinematic music.  More importantly, this story is suitable for all ages and is a heartwarming story of family, hope, perseverance, faith, and love. Artaban and the Quest for the King is a Markiewitz Audioworks Production.

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  Tender

  Eleanor Tindall

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  'You might say that my life is perfect.'
  Ivy has life sorted; she's got a flat, a boyfriend and she knows exactly where it's all headed. Except there is this thing that she tries not to think about. The thing she left in her childhood bedroom.
  Ash is having the time of her life. Fresh from leaving a bad relationship, she's got no idea what's next. But there's something about her new flat. The wallpaper pulses and sometimes it sounds like a heartbeat.
  Two women. A chance meeting. Giddy kisses they never should have shared. Eleanor Tindall's play Tender is the story of two people who find each other without even knowing they were looking. It was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2024, directed by Emily Aboud and produced by Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions.

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  The Secret Garden

  Francis Hodgson Burnett, Jeanne...

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  In this L.A. Theatre Works original commission, playwright Jeanne Sakata has created a new audio adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s beloved classic. Mary Lennox is an orphaned 10-year-old who is sent to live with her uncle in his country house on the moors. Her new life is almost unbearable, but when she hears stories of the estate’s mysterious, abandoned garden she’s determined to discover its secrets.
   
  
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in June 2024.
   
  
   
  Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
   
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
   
  
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
   
  
   
  Jonathan Charles as Colin Craven, British Army Officer
   
  Shannon Cochran as Mrs. Medlock, Regina Crawford, Susan Sowerby
   
  Adhir Kalyan as Archibald Craven, Servant Ramji
   
  Alma Marian as Mary Lennox
   
  Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Martha Sowerby, Rose Lennox, Lily Craven and second Crawford Child
   
  Alastair James Murden as Dickon Sowerby, Captain Lennox, and first Crawford Child
   
  Ian Ogilvy as Ben Weatherstaff, Doctor, Innskeeper, British Army Officer, Pastor Edward Crawford
   
  Lina Patel as Ayah Lakshmi
   
  
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
   
  Technical Producer: Mark Holden
   
  Recorded and edited by Neil Wogenson at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
   
  Designed and Mixed by: Charles Carroll
   
  Assistant Designer: Chloe Foster
   
  Foley Artist: Mark Holden
   
  Foley Engineer: Chloe Foster
   
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
   
  Cultural Consultant: Lina Patel

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