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  Lily Of The West

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  Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America.  - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia.

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  Damon Runyon Theater - Dancing...

  Damon Runyon

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  The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.  Damon Runyon is acknowledged as one of the great writers to come out of twentieth century America.  Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named, and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; He’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe.  Runyon described himself as "being known to one and all as a guy who is just around".  That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.  It was like you were with him on some street corner hustle or some shady dive and he was filling you in on all the angles, all the gossip, all of life. He was who so many people wanted to be with……or so many people wanted to be.  Of course, the cliché about newspapermen and writers is that they are heavy drinkers, chain-smokers, gamblers and obsessively chase women with a sideline in the gathering of stories and facts and actually getting something written just before the deadline hits. That seems like Damon Runyon and his life summed up in one sentence.  His stories became legendary ways of looking that bit differently at America, of soaking up the atmosphere of a glamorous and rip-roaring age and distilling it into a black and white type or, in our case, The Damon Runyon Theatre Hour.

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  This House - Poems

  Rehema Njambi

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  Rehema Njambi unpacks identity, faith, womanhood and – above all – agency, in poems partly inspired by conversations with the Black, mostly African, women around her.
  
  Imbued with quiet resistance to patriarchal societies, Njambi's debut collection is an ode to the women who have raised her, and their strength and their ability to hold, sustain, and be rooted in their faith. The poems resound with their idea of home, and belonging they wish to pass on to their daughters.
  GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE
  There were footsteps in the dark all night,
  
  almost every night, and we were scared —
  
  but we didn't say a thing.
  She called us to prayer in the morning, every morning.
  
  With our small hands and smaller faith
  we asked the Lord for protection —
  
  but He didn't say a thing.

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  Train of Life

  Edmund Gosse

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you nine readings of The Train of Life by Edmund Gosse. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 28th, 2014.

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  A Perfect Strain

  Isabella Crawford

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Perfect Strain by Isabella Valancy Crawford, published in "The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford" in 1905. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 27th, 2008.

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  The Richard II

  William Shakespeare

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  Richard II by William Shakespeare is the first of eight plays that portray a historically-informed version of the War of the Roses - beginning in about 1365 and ending with Richard III's death in 1485. 
  Edited by J. M. Smallheer and John Gonzalez. (Summary by Cori) 
  Characters:Narration, Keeper, and Lord - read by  Annie ColemanKing Richard II and First Servant - read by  Peter YearsleyNorthumberland and Gaunt - read by  ChipBolingbroke - read by  Kayvan SylvanAumerle - read by  John GonzalezHenry Percy - read by  Michael SiroisYork - read by  Martin CliftonMowbray - read by  Mark F. SmithSurrey and Willoughby - read by  Nikolle DoolinSalisbury - read by  David BarnesBushy and Carlisle - read by  Cecelia PriorBagot, Abbot, Scroop, and Exton - read by  LintonGreen - read by  deadwhitemalesQueen Isabel - read by  Joy ChanDuchess of York - read by  Kristen McQuillinBerkeley - read by  RainerRoss - read by  Mr. Baby ManFitzwater and Groom - read by  Sean McKinleyMarshal - read by  Lenny Glionna Jr.Captain and First Herald - read by  Hugh MacDuchess of Gloucester - read by  GesineLady - read by  Maureen S. O'BrienGardener, Second Herald, and Second Servant - read by  Kara Shallenberg

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