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  Born in the USA - Exploring...

  Hilda Doolittle, Louisa May...

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  Poetry. A form of words that seems so elegantly simple in one verse and so cleverly complex in another.  Each poet has a particular style, an individual and unique way with words and yet each of us seems to recognise the path and destination of where the verses lead, even if sometimes the full comprehension may be a little beyond us. 
   
  Through the centuries every culture has produced verse to symbolize and to describe everything from everyday life, natural wonders, the human condition and even in its more hubristic moments, the crushing triumph of an enemy. 
   
  In the volumes of this series we take a look through the prism of individual regions of the United States through the centuries and decades. 
   
  The United States may be many things: the world’s policeman, a bully, a shameless purveyor of mass market culture but it also, in its better moments, a standard bearer for truth, transparency, equality and the more positive qualities of democracy. 
   
  Little wonder that’s its poets are rightly acknowledged as wonders of their art.  Leading lights in the fight against slavery and for equality, even if the rest of the Nation is finding it problematic to catch up.   
   
  In this volume we have collected verse from poets born in Pennsylvania, one of the most famous states of the Union.  Its proud and illustrious history shines out through verse by such illustrious and venerated names as Stephen Vincent Benet, Louisa May Alcott, Wallace Stevens, Hilda Doolittle, Henry Van Dyke, and others as they explore its status, its nature and its role in shaping the world of verse.

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  Top Girls

  Caryl Churchill

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  In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Amy Brenneman as MarleneMegan Austin Oberle as Kit/Shona/WaitressKirsten Potter as Lady Nijo/WinSamantha Robson as Mrs. Kidd/JeanineCarolyn Seymour as Isabella Bird/JoyceKate Steele as Dull Gret/AngieConcetta Tomei as Pope Joan/LouiseMissy Yager as Patient Griselda/NellDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2006.

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  Multilingual Short Works...

  Various

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  This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). All chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers.01 Russian - ??????????! (Poslushayte!) (poetry, non-fiction, ??????, ??????????, M?????????, ??????? ??? ???????, ????? ???????)02 Russian - ????, ?????, ??????, ?????? (Noch', ulitsa, fonar', apteka) (poetry, non-fiction, ?????? ??????, ????)03 Russian - ?????? ?? ????????. (Nichego ne ponimayut.) (poetry, non-fiction, ?????????, ???, M?????????, ??????? ??? ???????, ????? ???????)04 Finnish - Kevätkylmät (prose)05 Finnish - Kevät ja kesä (prose)06 Polish - Bialy wyrak (kominiarz, legenda, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, potwór)07 French - Jeannot et Colin (prose, fiction , conte philosophique, conte moral, conte satirique, critique sociale, XVIIIème siècle, siècle des Lumières)08 Polish - Zemsta zywiolaków (pozar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon)09 Polish - Czerwona Magda (pozar, praca, groza, horror, opowiadanie, demon)10 Polish - Zez (groza, horror, opowiadanie, opetanie)11 Russian - ??????? ? ??????? (Muravey i Golubka) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, ??? ?????, ?????, ???????)12 Russian - ???????? ? ???? (Cherepaha i Orel) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, ??? ?????, ?????, ???????)13 Russian - ??? ???????? (Dva Tovarisha) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, ??? ?????, ?????, ???????)14 Russian - ????? (Horek) (prose, fables, Tolstoy, ??? ?????, ?????, ???????)15 Spanish - Lo fatal (poetry, modernism, modernismo, poesía, Nicaragua)16 Spanish - Si ves un monte de espumas (poetry, poesía, Cuba, Versos sencillos)17 Russian - ?????? (Albom) (prose, Chekhov, ?????, ????????, ????)18 Russian - ??????? (Aviator) (poetry, ????)19 Russian - ? ? ?????. ? ? ???????... (I ya lyubil. I ya izvedal) (poetry, ????)20 Ukrainian - ??????? «?? ???? ?? ?????????» (Zapovit) (poetry, ????????, ????, ??????)

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  Magnolia

  Nina Mingya Powles

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  "why don't you write about yourself ever
  people used to ask / and I didn't know why / either
  in Chinese one word can lead you out of the dark / then back into it / in a single breath"
  Magnolia is the debut poetry collection by poet, essayist and non-fiction writer Nina Mingya Powles, one of contemporary poetry's most exciting new international voices and the winner of the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing. These vivid, luscious poems move between journal and biography, place and belonging, all the time exploring the multitudinous facets of language and culture that make up our identity, from the sense of longing that a delicious bowl of food conjures up to the inviting glow of paper lanterns that illuminate memory and travel. Formally rich, these unique poems skilfully broaden the perspective of all a poem can hold can contain through their daring, joyful and expansive approach.

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  15 Minutes Of Love Poems -...

  John Keats, William Shakespeare,...

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  Love. What is love? 
   
  The question is asked by each of us but the answer remains elusive. 
   
  Dictionaries summon up many words but none fulfill. Love itself is often ethereal, felt but only seen in a glance, a look, a fleeting touch. Part of Love’s beauty is perhaps in the fact that the question never can be adequately answered; its ephemeral, a chimera of the heart and only felt. 
   
  Our own experiences are unique and personal to ourselves and of little help defining it for another. 
   
  Love is perhaps best expressed through poetry. As Plato said 2500 years ago “At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet”. Writing a love poem for ones’ partner is seen as the most romantic of gestures. It opens our hearts to another's. Lovers love. 
   
  Here, in this volume history’s greatest poets convey thoughts, feelings and sentiments of love to you in quick (or bite-size) conversations of verse that can slip into your day and your partner's heart. 
   
  01 - Fifteen Minutes of Love - Volume 7 - Bright Star & Other Poems 
  02 - Bright Star by John Keats 
  03 - To Roses in the Bosom of Castara by William Habington 
  04 - To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick 
  05 - Because I Liked You  by A E Housman 
  06 - Ardour by Radclyffe Hall 
  07 - Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 
  08 - Sonnet To My Wife by Thomas Hood 
  09 - I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale 
  10 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 
  11 - A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 
  12 - Love's Emblems by John Fletcher 
  13 - Slaves of Thy Shining Eyes by Hafiz

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  Dangerous Assignment Collection 2

  Black Eye Entertainment

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  In 1949, NBC brought mustachioed Irish-American actor Brian Donlevy to the radio microphones as international troubleshooter Steve Mitchell in the spy series  Dangerous Assignment. Mitchell worked for an un-named US government intelligence agency; whose boss, The Commissioner, dispatched him to world trouble spots.  Mitchell's assignment was to solve problems in record time, and in accordance with US interests. The radio series lasted three seasons (1949-1953) due in part to Donlevy's terrific performances and the mystique of the foreign locations and situations, which radio listeners could create in their "theatre of the mind." During its last year on radio, Donlevy formed a production company to convert the series to television, producing 39 episodes for syndication. Enjoy 12 exciting, half-hour radio adventures of globe-trotting troubleshooter Steve Mitchell as he solves another Dangerous Assignment. 
  12/16/50 "Recover Missing Civil War Map"12/30/50 "Intercept Dr. Korvel Before Opposition"2/10/51 "Recover the Kroner Cutlass"4/7/51 "Recover File 72, Seal Unbroken"7/10/51 "Stop 'Shanghai Lady' and the China Sea Smuggling"11/3/51 "Find Fugitive Nazi, Captain Schiller"1/7/53 "Smash Gun-Running Operation"1/21/53 "Smash Strategic Materials Leaks"4/15/53 "Find Lenny Fenway and Get Him Out of Tibet"4/22/53 "Bait a Trap with 'Nikolai Debarov'"4/29/53 "Put an End to Anti-Submarine Base Sabotage"5/27/53 "Find a Hired Assassin"

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