LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of title by My Flower by Ira Titus.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 19th to February 26th, 2012.
A short and sweet poem about being happy with yourself.
There is no information available about the author, Ira Titus.(Summary by Lucy Perry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man’s Thought of School by Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 12th to February 26th, 2012.
Whitman claimed that after years of competing for “the usual rewards”, he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the period. As early as 1850, he began writing what would become Leaves of Grass, a collection of poetry which he would continue editing and revising until his death.
(Summary from Wikipedia)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Cupid’s Darts (Which Are a Growing Menace to the Public) by Anonymous.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 12th to February 19th, 2012.
To celebrate the somewhat silly holiday of Valentine’s Day, I’ve selected this somewhat silly poem, which first appeared in Such Nonsense! an anthology by Carolyn Wells. Published in 1918. (Summary by Liberty Stump)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë (1820-1849).
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5th to February 12th, 2012.
Appeal appears in ‘Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,’ the first book ever published by the Bronte sisters. This book, a collection of poems by all the sisters, was first published in 1846 but did not sell at that time. After the sisters had made their names as novelists (and, sadly, after the deaths of Anne and Emily) a second edition was published in 1850 and became a commercial success.
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913).
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29th to February 12th, 2012.
In 1892 the opportunity of a lifetime came to this young versifier, when Frank Yeigh, the president of the Young Liberals’ Club, of Toronto, conceived the idea of having an evening of Canadian literature, at which all available Canadian authors should be guests and read from their own works.
Among the authors present on this occasion was Pauline Johnson, who contributed to the programme one of her compositions, entitled “A Cry from an Indian Wife”; and when she recited without text this much-discussed poem, which shows the Indian’s side of the North-West Rebellion, she was greeted with tremendous applause from an audience which represented the best of Toronto’s art, literature and culture. She was the only one on the programme who received an encore, and to this she replied with one of her favourite canoeing poems.
The following morning the entire press of Toronto asked why this young writer was not on the platform as a professional reader; while two of the dailies even contained editorials on the subject, inquiring why she had never published a volume of her poems, and insisted so strongly that the public should hear more of her, that Mr. Frank Yeigh arranged for her to give an entire evening in Association Hall within two weeks from the date of her first appearance. It was for this first recital that she wrote the poem by which she is best known, “The Song my Paddle Sings.”
( Summary from the Biographical Sketch included in Flint And Feather, collected verse by E. Pauline Johnson )
