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  A Surprised Queenhood in the New...

  Angela Jackson

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  Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the great American literary icons of the twentieth century and the first black person awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Over nearly six decades, her poetry showed complex portraits of black American life and served as witness to the stark realities of urban living. A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun delves deep into the rich fabric of Brooks's work and world and traces the literary arc of her long career, using forty-three of her most soul-stirring poems as a guide. It is a commemoration of a writer who negotiated black womanhood and incomparable brilliance with a changing, restless world-an artistic maverick ahead of her time.

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  Classic Works from Women Writers

  A. J. Odasso

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  A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers. Women writers have been making their voices heard for centuries, but their works were not always taken seriously. Over time, as women gained more social and political freedom, these works have reemerged as subjects that are considered to be worthy of closer study. Classic Works from Women Writers is a collection of more than thirty novels, short stories, poems, and essays by prominent and lesser-known female writers since the seventeenth century. Included in this volume are groundbreaking works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Hercule Poirot novel; Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and her follow-up essay; and poetry from the likes of Christina Rossetti, Amy Lowell, and Sara Teasdale. The words of these authors offer a multitude of perspectives on different issues that affect not only women but the wider world as well.

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  In Event of Moone Disaster (NHB...

  Andrew Thompson

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  1969 – Man takes his first steps on the Moon, while Sylvia meets an astronaut at a party
  2055 – Sylvia's granddaughter is set to become the first person to walk on Mars
  Witness the adventures of three extraordinary women spanning 80 years, against the backdrop of humanity's journey to the stars.
  Winner of the 2016 Theatre503 Playwriting Award, In Event of Moone Disaster premiered at Theatre503, London, in 2017.

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  Apology for the Life of Mrs...

  Henry Fielding

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  An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing the work, but it is widely considered to be his. It is a direct attack on the then-popular novel Pamela (November 1740) by Fielding's contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson and is composed, like Pamela, in epistolary form. Shamela is written as a shocking revelation of the true events which took place in the life of Pamela Andrews, the main heroine of Pamela. From Shamela we learn that, instead of being a kind, humble, and chaste servant-girl, Pamela (whose true name turns out to be Shamela) is in fact a wicked and lascivious creature, scheming to entrap her master, Squire Booby, into marriage. (Summary by Wikipedia)CastNarrator: Patti CunninghamShamela: KristingjWilliams: Martin GeesonTickletext: Chuck WilliamsonLucretia: April GonzalesHenrietta: Margaret EspaillatOliver: Algy PugBooby: Herman RoskamsPuff: Bob GonzalezConny: NoelBadrianEditor: Patti Cunningham

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  Voice of the Ancient Bard

  William Blake

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  Librivox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake.  This is a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

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  Fifty Shades of Winter - 50 of...

  William Shakespeare, Henry...

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  Nature prepares her final work. She begins to strip her canvas of almost everything leaving only little pockets of colour, leaves and berry to cluster on the bleak structure of the land 
   
  Her command of colour rises to another understanding.  The shades of grey, the monochrome from white to black begin to solidify. Falling temperatures hold and freeze everything.  The days shorten. The nights lengthen, throwing moon and starlight across the glistening canvas. She dazzles with storm and blizzard. Rest for her will not be easy. 
   
  Our poets, who have seen this often, know it’s meaning.  Their verse evocatively relays their thoughts, their musings, their understanding of all that surrounds the closing of nature’s year. 
   
  In fifty poems we take you on their inspiring journey, reflecting on the miracle of winter. 
   
  01 - Fifty Shades of Winter - An Introduction 
  02 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  03 - Some Too Fragile For Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  04 - Come Come Thou Bleak December Wind (Fragment 3) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  05 - Winter by Khalil Gibran 
  06 - I Who All The Winter Through by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  07 - Winter Calls by Daniel Sheehan 
  08 - A Wife in London (December 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  09 - The December Rose by Edith Nesbit 
  10 - Sicily December 1908 by Henry Van Dyke 
  11 - Sweetheart Winter by Vachel Lindsay 
  12 - Ode Written on the First of December by Robert Southey 
  13 - A Calender of Sonnets - December by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  14 - The Idlers Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For the Months - December by Wilfred Scawen Blunt 
  15 - The Winters Are So Short by Emily Dickinson 
  16 - December Matins by Alfred Austin 
  17 - Sonnet II - When Forty Winters Shall Besiege Thy Brow by William Shakespeare 
  18 - In Drear Nighted December by John Keats 
  19 - December by John Bannister Tabb 
  20 - Winters Naked Wood by Daniel Sheehan 
  21 - A December Day by Robert Fuller Murray 
  22 - Snow-Bound (The Sun That Brief December Day) by John Greenleaf Whittier 
  23 - The Snow Man by Wallace Stevens 
  24 - Snow Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  25 - January 1st 1828 by Nathaniel Parker Willis 
  26 - Written During An Aurora Borealis January 7th 1831 by Henry Alford 
  27 - Lines on Observing a Blossom on the First of February 1796 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  28 - February by Edith Nesbit 
  29 - Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - February by Louisa Sarah Bevington 
  31 - February 3rd 1830 by Henry Alford 
  32 - In Febuary by Alice Meynell 
  33 - A Winter Day - Noon and Afternoon by Thomas Aird 
  34 - In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  35 - The Farm Woman's Winter by Thomas Hardy 
  36 - Winter Stores by Charlotte Bronte 
  37 - Afternoon in Febuary by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  38 - February Twilight by Sara Teasdale 
  39 - To A Locomotive In Winter by Walt Whitman 
  40 - February Morning by Laurence Binyon 
  41 - A Valentines Song by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  42 - To Susanna, February 1824 by Eliza Acton 
  43 - Winter Heavens by George Meredith 
  44 - Winter by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  45 - February by Dollie Radford 
  46 - Winter - My Secret by Christina Georgina Rossetti 
  47 - Winter Evening Hymn To My Fire by James Russell Lowell 
  48 - February by Arthur Christopher Benson 
  49 - Winter Violets by Alfred Austin 
  50 - Winter by Anne Bradstreet 
  51 - How Like a Winter Hath My Absence Been (Sonnet 97) by William Shakespeare

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