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  The Consolation

  Anne Brontë

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.

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  While Gazing on the Moon's Light

  Thomas Moore

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of While Gazing on the Moon's Light by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for May 10th, 2009.

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  Relativity

  Cassandra Medley

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  At the center of Cassandra Medley's play is  the controversial idea that higher concentrations of melanin in the genetic makeup of people of color make them mentally, physically, and spiritually superior. Based on the scientific studies of her ironically now-deceased father, Kalima, a fledging molecular scientist looking to come to her own has a difficult time owning his flawed research. Her mother Claire, who carry's her deceased husband's scientific torch has a hard time reckoning with her daughter's enlightenment.Includes an interview with Dr. Stanley Nelson, Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Judyann Elder, Deidrie Henry, James Pickens Jr., Jason Ritter, Terrell Tilford and Lorraine Toussaint.Relativity is part of L.A. Theatre Works’ Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Major funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.

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  The Poetry of June

  Emily Dickinson, John Dryden,...

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  JUNE - the sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official beginning of Summer.  The days stretch to their longest and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our Poets such as  Dryden, Levy, Raleigh, Blunt and Dickenson as they describe the warming days. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The tracks are; June - An Introduction; Knee Deep In June By James Whitcomb Riley; A June Tide Echo By Amy Levy; June By William Cullen Bryant; There Is A June When Corn Is Cut By Emily Dickinson; Sweet Empty Sky of June By Henry Vaughan; June 14th By Maria Frances Cecilia Cowper; Dusk In June By Sara Teasdale; Wishes Of An Elderly Man Wished At A Garden Party, June 1914 By Walter Alexander Raleig; A Man Young And Old By William Butler Yeats; The Human Seasons By John Keats; June Night By Sara Teasdale; The Longest Day By William Wordsworth; A June Night By Emma Lazarus; Pleasure's Past By John Clare; A Night In June By James Edwin Campbell; A Night In June By Alfred Austin; A Match By Algernon Swinburne; Hymn For The Dedication Of Memorial Hall At Cambridge June 23rd 1874 By Oliver Wendell Holmes; June A Tale By William Cowper; June At Woodruff By James Whitcomb Riley; June By Horatio Alger Jr; All In June By William Henry Davies; Hymn For St John's Eve The 29th June By John Henry Dryden; Beachey Head By Charlotte Smith; Our Fathers Also By Rudyard Kipling; I Am Your Father By Daniel Sheehan; At The Royal Academy By Thomas Hardy; Boat By Rabindranath Tagore.

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  The Bird-Catcher

  Martin Armstrong

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  This beautiful collection of poems tells tales of blossoming springs and fruitful summers; in Honey Harvest Armstrong depicts Spring with the overweight apple blossom nodding on their branches and the sweet honey filling our shelves, and in Spanish Vintage we are almost able to taste the plump purple grapes of August as we follow their journey through the seasons, maturing in the dark bodegas ready to be sipped when the time is just right. 
   
  This nature-inspired collection of poems was first published in 1929.

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  Runaway - New Poems

  Jorie Graham

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  An NPR Best Book of the Year 
  A new collection of poetry from one of our most acclaimed contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham 
   
  In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection, Runaway, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change, social disruption, our new mass migrations, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present—a now—in which we might endure, wary, undaunted, ever-inventive, “counting silently towards infinity.” Graham’s essential voice guides us fluently “as we pass here now into the next-on world,” what future we have surging powerfully through these pages, where the poet implores us “to the last be human.”

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