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  The Busy World is Hushed

  Keith Bunin

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  With wisdom, humor and insight, The Busy World is Hushed examines the contradictions we find in our faith, our families and ourselves. Hannah, a widowed Episcopal minister, is hoping to translate a long-lost gospel when she is challenged by both her scholarly assistant and her wayward gay son. But when family secrets are revealed, only the intercession of a stranger can help Hannah find peace. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Jill Clayburgh, Hamish Linklater and Luke MacFarlane.

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  Be Holding - A Poem

  Ross Gay

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  Winner, 2021 PEN/Jean Stein Award Winner, 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry Winner, 2022 Indiana Author Award in Poetry Be Holding is a love song to legendary basketball player Julius Erving—known as Dr. J—who dominated courts in the 1970s and ‘80s as a small forward for the Philadelphia ‘76ers. But this book-length poem is more than just an ode to a magnificent athlete. Through a kind of lyric research, or lyric meditation, Ross Gay connects Dr. J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage, to photography and surveillance and state violence, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. Be Holding wonders how the imagination, or how our looking, might make us, or bring us, closer to each other. How our looking might make us reach for each other. And might make us be reaching for each other. And how that reaching might be something like joy.

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  Fifty Shades of America - 50 of...

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, Vachel...

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  The Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.  This illustrious phrase encapsulates the aspirations of America and its people.   
   
  In this volume we feature 50 American poets beginning with the Colonist Anne Bradstreet in the 17th century, when American poetry was entirely rooted in its parental British forms.  From here our classic poets take us through Centuries of history, through Independence and expansion Westward, across the cities and vast landscapes of their words.  Along the journey we also meet the Imagists, the poets from the Harlem Renaissance by way of the Transcendentalists and the Fireside Poets.   
   
  The giants of the poetic way loom large; Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Edna St Vincent Millay.  Our rambling poetic stroll gives voice to the nation’s hopes, its dreams, its failings, its musings.   
   
  We cannot hope to define America but we do provide the many changing moods and flavours of the times as we discover the essence of its soul. 
  1 - Fifty Shades of America - An Introduction 
  2 - A Nation's Strength by Ralph Waldo Emerson 
  3 - America by Herman Melville 
  4 - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 
  5 - America the Beautiful by Katharine Lee Bates 
  6 - Brothers. American Drama by James Weldon Johnson 
  7 - We Wear the Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  8 - The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 
  9 - Abraham Lincoln by James Russell Lowell 
  10 - Paul Revere's Ride (The Landlord's Tale) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  11 - England and America by Florence T Holt 
  12 - Americanisation by G K Chesterton 
  13 - In Amsterdam by Eugene Field 
  14 - Broadway, New York, July 1916 by George Sterling 
  15 - New York at Night by Amy Lowell 
  16 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 
  17 - The Natives of America by Ann Plato 
  18 - An Indian Summer Day On the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay 
  19 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  20 - Hymn To The North Star by William Cullen Bryant 
  21 - An Hymn To the Evening by Phillis Wheatley 
  22 - Trees by Joyce Kilmer 
  23 - from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman 
  24 - Sonnet 12 by Alan Seeger 
  25 - The Ancient Arteries of America by Daniel Sheehan 
  26 - A Crowded Trolley Car by Elinor Wylie 
  27 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost 
  28 - Yes, I Have a Thousand Tongues by Stephen Crane 
  29 - Thirteen Ways of Looking At a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens 
  30 - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 
  31 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson 
  32 - Comment by Dorothy Parker 
  33 - To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 
  34 - The Boy She Used To Know by Damon Runyon 
  35 - Portrait D'une Femme by Ezra Pound 
  36 - Sonnet 18 - I, Being Born a Woman by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  37 - Evening Song by Willa Cather 
  38 - I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman 
  39 - The Crowd at the Ball Game by William Carlos Williams 
  40 - It Couldn't Be Done by Edgar Albert Guest 
  41 - Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson 
  42 - Colored Hats from Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein 
  43 - Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  44 - Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  45 - Chaplinesque by Hart Crane 
  46 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 
  47 - Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot 
  48 - A Grave by Edith Wharton 
  49 - Bury Me In a Free Land by Frances E W Harper 
  50 - To the Memory of the Americans Who Fell at Eutaw by Philip Freneau 
  51 - Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Kay

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  Menagerie

  Cheryl Pearson

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  Menagerie is a collection of poems about animals, divided into three sections: water, earth and air. Some poems examine a creature from close-up, almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animal's eyes, while the poet is more present in other poems, looking on. The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness, love, mortality, and hope. Each poem is typeset with plenty of space around it, allowing it to breathe. With stylised illustrations by Amy Evans.
  from "Octopus Tank, Torbay Aquarium"
  
  I saw a ribbon of starlings once – they rose
  
  and fell in that same way, tied and re-tied Rome
  
  in a bow, and I thought the knot at their centre
  
  must be God. Here is God again in this stranger,
  
  the colour coursing her billow and flop like a weather map
  
  crawling with storms.

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  Sonnet

  Richard Watson Gilder

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 10 readings of The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder. This was the weekly poetry project for October 5, 2014.

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  Override (NHB Modern Plays)

  Stacy Gregg

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  A captivating, darkly comic play that questions what it means to be human.
  In a world where using technology to erase people's imperfections and disabilities is increasingly normal, one couple is going back to basics.
  Far from the city, Mark and Violet are looking forward to the natural birth of their first baby. But one of them has a secret that threatens to undermine their perfect world.

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