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  After Music

  Josephine Preston Peabody

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of After Music by Josephine Preston Peabody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 10, 2011.Josephine Preston Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. She was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College. (summary from Wikipedia)After Music is taken from  An American Anthology, 1787–1900, edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908)

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  Songs Without Words

  Robert Jones Burdette

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Songs Without Words by Robert J. Burdette. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 9, 2013.Robert Jones Burdette was an American humorist and clergyman who became noted through his paragraphs in the Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. A collection of his writings, edited by Clara, his second wife, was published in 1922 under the title Robert J. Burdette: His Message.This poem is taken from The Wit and Humor of America, Volume 7.  (Summary from Wikipedia)

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  The Kingdom of Surfaces - Poems

  Sally Wen Mao

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  In The Kingdom of Surfaces, award-winning poet Sally Wen Mao examines art and history—especially the provenance of objects such as porcelain, silk, and pearls—to frame an important conversation on beauty, empire, commodification, and violence. In lyric poems and wide-ranging sequences, Mao interrogates gendered expressions such as the contemporary “leftover women,” which denotes unmarried women, and the historical “castle-toppler,” a term used to describe a concubine whose beauty ruins an emperor and his empire. These poems also explore the permeability of object and subject through the history of Chinese women in America, labor practices around the silk loom, and the ongoing violence against Asian people during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
   
  At its heart, The Kingdom of Surfaces imagines the poet wandering into a Western fantasy, which covets, imitates, and appropriates Chinese aesthetics via Chinamania and the nineteenth-century Aesthetic Movement, while perpetuating state violence upon actual lives. The title poem is a speculative recasting of Through the Looking-Glass, set in a surreal topsy-turvy version of the eponymous China-themed 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala. The Kingdom of Surfaces is a brilliantly conceived call for those who recognize the horrors of American exceptionalism to topple the empire that values capital over lives and power over liberation.

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  Midlife and the Great Unknown -...

  David Whyte

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  "In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost." When you find yourself suddenly without bearings, as Dante Alighieri voiced so well centuries ago, where will you look for guidance? Throughout the ages, teaches David Whyte, the language of poetry has held a special power to hazard ourselves boldly at the fierce edges of our lives. On Midlife and the Great Unknown, you will engage with poetic imagination as it was meant to be experienced: as your companion and guide for the challenging terrain of midlife. Join this Yorkshire-born poet and bestselling author to explore:Radical simplification—an invitation to sit in silent reflection and observation • Using your poetic imagination to navigate life's cycles of loss and joy• Honoring who you are right now, including your skills and limitations, and moreThe language of poetry can emancipate you into the next phase of your existence, teaches David Whyte. It can help you break through obstacles and give you courage to take necessary risks. Drawing from the wisdom of fellow poets Rainer Maria Rilke, Emily Dickinson, and Seamus Heaney, Whyte invites you to boldly engage in a conversation with the second half of your life on Midlife and the Great UnknownNote: Excerpted from the full-length audio course Clear Mind, Wild Heart.

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  A-Typical Rainbow

  JJ Green

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  'I can change colours of objects by looking at them, hear the symphonies of household simplicities, taste the emotions in a room like sweet or bitter wine, and feel life's every heartbeat breaking through my ribcage in glorious technicolour. Just don't ask me to make eye contact.'
  An imaginative child's glorious fantasies – of dolphins and dragonflies, gingerbread houses and chocolate rivers – offer him an escape from hostile reality.
  When reality dictates he has to conform to the 'real world', he has to make a choice. Should he live authentically and risk stigma, or can he continue to hide?
  Based on real events from the perspective of the writer and the autistic community, JJ Green's A-Typical Rainbow is an uplifting play about the experience of growing up neurodivergent and queer in early 2000s Britain.
  It premiered at London's Turbine Theatre in June 2022, produced by Aria Entertainment, directed by Bronagh Lagan, and starring playwright JJ Green, who is a passionate advocate for autistic artists like himself.
  This edition includes the full text of the play along with contributions from the largely – and proudly – neurodivergent cast and creative team.

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  Shakespearean Dialogues...

  William Shakespeare

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  This is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting" (inspired by a line from Much Ado About Nothing). (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) The Taming of the Shrew, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Verity Kendall   Richard III, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Barr  A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 2 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett   Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 2 read by: Charlotte Duckett, Verity Kendall   Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4 Scene 1 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Valerie Tan  Henry V, Act 5 Scene 2 read by: Tiffany Halla Colonna, Winston Tharp, Elizabeth Klett   As You Like It, Act 3 Scene 2 read by: Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett   Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Martin Geeson, Grace Garrett   Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 5 read by: Elizabeth Barr, Grace Garrett   Measure For Measure, Act 2 Scene 4 read by: Algy Pug, Elizabeth Klett   All's Well That Ends Well, Act 4 Scene 2 read by: Martin Geeson, Elizabeth Barr   Antony and Cleopatra, Act 1 Scene 3 read by: Amanda Friday, Algy Pug   Cymbeline, Act 1 Scene 6 read by: David Richardson, Carol Box   The Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 4 read by: Amanda Friday, Martin Geeson   The Tempest, Act 3 Scene 1 read by: Algy Pug, Arielle Lipshaw, Elizabeth Klett

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