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  Fifty Shades of Roses - 50 of...

  Robert Burns, Edith Nesbit,...

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  There are many things we can perhaps more easily say with flowers than with words.  And flowers can say many things to us.  So perhaps these poetic expressions of spoken words and flowery subject are a perfect match.   
   
  Many would agree that there is one flower, the rose, that embodies both the human condition, its ambitions, its sacrifices and its symbolism of devoted love that together with its own peerless self; the beauty of its perfume, its hues and colours, its shapes and forms, from rambler and climber to the stately grace of a rose bed, and, of course, its thorns, to warn that consequences carry a price. 
   
  Poets know that a rose is perhaps able to speak in many tongues on many subjects and it is therefore unsurprising that the rose is one of the great enduring symbols of the tradition in both Western and Eastern poetry.   
   
  A rose can bring a tremble of the lip, or raise the beating of a heart. They can create a mood or simplify a feeling.  Their message can be direct or nuanced but so often it is just perfect.   
   
  Our classic poets from Hafiz, D H Lawrence, Robert Burns and Shakespeare, along with very many others, explore this beautiful living symbol with their exquisite lines and verse. 
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of Roses - An Introduction 
  2 - The Year of the Rose by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  3 - A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns 
  4 - Rosa Rosarum by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson 
  5 - Venus in the Garden by James Weldon Johnson 
  6 - A White Rose by John Boyle O'Reilly 
  7 - Rosa Mundi by Arthur Symons 
  8 - Rose of All the World by D H Lawrence 
  9 - To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick 
  10 - Go Lovely Rose by Edmund Waller 
  11 - To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington 
  12 - Gloire de Dijon by D H Lawrence 
  13 - Sonnet 130 - My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun by William Shakespeare 
  14 - Sonnet 109 - O! Never Say That I Was False of Heart by William Shakespeare 
  15 - My Rose by Hildegarde Hawthorn 
  16 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
  17 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 
  18 - Sonnet 54 - O! How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem by William Shakespeare 
  19 - Sonnet 99 - The Forward Violet Thus Did I Chide by William Shakespeare 
  20 - In an Eastern Rosegarden by Pirani Ameena Begum 
  21 - Early Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke 
  22 - No Rose That in a Garden Ever Grew by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  23 - The Secret Rose by W B Yeats 
  24 - The Rose by John Cournos 
  25 - Where Roses Would Not Dare to Go by Emily Dickinson 
  26 - Amid the Roses by Alice Dunbar Nelson 
  27 - How Did the Rose by Hafiz 
  28 - A Flower Given to My Daughter by James Joyce 
  29 - To a Friend Who Sent Me Roses by John Keats 
  30 - The Sweets of the Rose  by Hafiz 
  31 - A Rose by Sir Richard Fanshawe 
  32 - The Rose Has Flushed Red by Hafiz 
  33 - London Roses by Willa Silbert Cather 
  34 - Laughing Rose by William Henry Davies 
  35 - A Wild Rose by Alfred Austin 
  36 - June by Francis Ledwidge 
  37 - Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Thomas Moore 
  38 - Virtue by George Herbert 
  39 - Summer in England, 1914 by Alice Meynell 
  40 - The Rose Has Left the Garden by Richard Le Gallienne 
  41 - Summer is Ended by Christina Rossetti 
  42 - Written in September, 1804 by Christian Milne 
  43 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  44 - September by George Arnold 
  45 - An October Garden by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  46 - Winter Evening Hymn to My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  47 - My Winter Rose by Alfred Austin 
  48 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  49 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  50 - Winter Sunset by Katharine

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  The Secret Garden

  Frances 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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  How and Why a Poem Works -...

  John Lehman

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  Here is a thought-provoking 51- minute audio presentation for writers, readers, students, teachers, parents...anyone who has ever wondered why a particular poem is their favorite. It includes the poem Stopping by the Woods, by Robert Frost. 
  Delving beneath the surface of Robert Frost's poetry, John Lehman is a nationally published writer and poet with 20 years experience as a professional speaker and 15 years as a creative director and senior copy writer for advertising agencies. He is a graduate of the Great Books program at Notre Dame University and has a master's degree in curriculum development from the University of Michigan. 
  John has presented seminars throughout the country. He is a book reviewer, business columnist, poet, and freelance feature writer for magazines and newspapers. His articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Popular Science, Omni, and in more than 50 other trade or consumer publications. He is also the founder of Rosebud magazine, managing partner of Zelda Wilde Publishing and the poetry editor of Wisconsin People and Ideas. 
  ©2009 John Lehman; (P)2009 John Lehman

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  My Shadow

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of My Shadow, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's famous poem concerns a child's shadow, and it's antics. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th, 2014. Summary by Sweet Pea.

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  Helen of Bikini

  Phoebe Reeves

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  Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness and culpability, destruction and nurturing, find their balances, not in an either/or, but in a melding? In an unapologetically feminist approach to these topics, Reeves explores the idea that "we are the only ones who name," and goes about teaching us the "alphabet of our unmaking." 
  "In her finely wrought debut poetry collection, Helen of Bikini, Phoebe Reeves showers us with the hard rain of atomic fallout, juxtaposed with a compendium of flora and fauna, invoked and named with a painstaking commitment to their beautiful existence.” 
  — Cynthia Bargar, author of Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room

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  The Ghosts' High Noon

  W. S. Gilbert

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for October 24th, 2010.

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