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  Song from the Suds

  Louisa May Alcott

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  Librivox volunteers bring you 16 readings of A Song from the Suds, by Louisa May Alcott, author of novels like Little Women. This was the fortnightly poem for June 7-21, 2015.

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  I'm Nobody

  Emily Dickinson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible versions of it. There is a great deal of discussion among academics as to which she preferred. Only one version forms part of this collection. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 18th, 2007.

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  Half-light - Collected Poems...

  Frank Bidart

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  The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His audio represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience.Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst”, still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe”.Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 is a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

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  Fifty Shades of November - 50 of...

  A E Housman, Trumbell Stickney,...

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  The eleventh month of the Gregorian year brings the change from Autumn into Winter.  Landscapes are scrubbed of colour and all their frills, the statued forms of trees are the grammar, the structure of her ways.  Days shorten, nights lengthen and for our classic poets there is work to be done. 
   
  Across fifty poems our classic poets including Matthew Arnold, Thomas Hardy, Herman Melville, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Alice Guerin Crist illuminate the month, the natural world and the human condition.  In their words our experiences are reshaped, our views are rethought and our place in the world made a little more sense of. 
   
   
   
  1 - Fifty Shades of November - An Introduction 
  2 - November by John Clare 
  3 - November Findings, November 1862 by Janet Hamilton 
  4 - November by William Cullen Bryant 
  5 - To a Mouse by Robert Burns 
  6 - To a Robin in November by William Wilfred Campbell 
  7 - The TWA Corbies by Anonymous 
  8 - Bird's Nests by Edward Thomas 
  9 - We Plough the Fields and Scatter by Mattias Claudius 
  10 - A Hymn on the Seasons (An Extract) by James Thomson 
  11 - A Shropshire Lad XXVII - Is My Team Ploughing by A E Housman 
  12 - At Day Close in November by Thomas Hardy 
  13 - A November Night by Sara Teasdale 
  14 - In November by Archibald Lampman 
  15 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  16 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield 
  17 - November Song by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 
  18 - Love in Autumn by Sara Teasdale 
  19 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  20 - By the Hearth by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 
  21 - A Calender of Sonnets - November by Helen Hunt Jackson 
  22 - November Blind by Phillip Henry Savage 
  23 - In This Fog by Daniel Sheehan 
  24 - November by Thomas Hood 
  25 - Among the Rocks by Robert Browning 
  26 - November by John Payne 
  27 - Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte 
  28 - The Storm by George Herbert 
  29 - Pray To What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong by Henry David Thoreau 
  30 - November by Amy Lowell 
  31 - Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  32 - Dupont's Round Fight (November 1861) by Herman Melville 
  33 - A Thanksgiving Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar 
  34 - In November by Phillip Henry Savage 
  35 - November Days in Ireland by Alice Guerin Crist 
  36 - November 1806 by William Wordsworth 
  37 - A Shropshire Lad XXXVIII - The Winds Out of the West Land Blow by A E Housman 
  38 - November 1847 by Henry Alford 
  39 - Sonnet 73 - That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold by William Shakespeare 
  40 - The Going of the Battery (Wives Lament November the 2nd 1899) by Thomas Hardy 
  41 - The Melancholy Year is Dead with Rain by Trumbell Stickney 
  42 - A November Note by Alfred Austin 
  43 - November by Lucy Hamilton Hooper 
  44 - November 1813 by William Wordsworth 
  45 - A Thought on Death, November 1814 by Anna Laetitia Barbauld 
  46 - On the Death of Princess Borghese, at Rome, November 1840 by Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton 
  47 - Paris. November the 11th, 1918 by Mary Wedderburn Cannan 
  48 - In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh (Killed in Action 21st November 1917, Aged 24) 
  49 - November by John Keble 
  50 - For the Fallen by Lawrence Binyon 
  51 - Rugby Chapel, November 1857 by Matthew Arnold

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  The York Mystery Plays (NHB...

  Mike Poulton

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  The greatest story ever told...
  ... from the creation of Heaven and Earth to the Last Judgement. The story of good versus evil, of life and death, and of love, betrayal, loss and hope.
  The York Mystery Plays are a dramatic cycle on a monumental scale, first performed over seven hundred years ago in the city of York.
  This new version by Mike Poulton was first performed in York Minster in 2016, with a vast community cast bringing the cycle to spectacular life once again.

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  Pipeline

  Dominique Morisseau

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  Nya, a dedicated teacher at an inner-city school, is desperate to give her only son opportunities that her own public high school students will never have. When a controversial incident at his private school threatens to get Omari expelled, Nya must confront her own deepest fears to give her son a future. 
   
  Copyright © 2017 Dominique Morisseau All rights reserved. Used by permission. Originally Produced by Lincoln Center Theater in 2017, New York City. Pipeline was commissioned by Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago; Martha Lavey, Artistic Director, David Hawkanson, Executive Director. 
   
  Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in February 2022. 
   
  Directed by Larry Powell 
  Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg 
   
  An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring: 
  Sophina Brown as Nya 
  Eugene Byrd as Dun 
  Demetrius Grosse as Xavier 
  Sharon Lawrence as Laurie 
  X Mayo as Jasmine 
  Uyoata Udi as Omari 
  Karen Malina White as P.A. Announcer 
  Student Voices (Olathe East High School, Olathe, Kansas): Rabiatu Amadu, Calista Wanjiku, Damarion Green-Burk, William Kalihamwe, and Coach Jason Peete 
   
  Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson 
  Prepared for Audio by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood 
  Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, Editor and Mixer: Charles Carroll 
  Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin 
  Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner 
  Music by Jimmy Keys, AKA "J. Keys"

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