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LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of The Nymphs by Ivan Turgenev. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 15, 2020. ------ Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. Constance Clara Garnett was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. She was the first English translator of Dostoyevsky and Chekhov, and one of the first translators to render almost all works by Turgenev, Goncharov, Ostrovsky, Herzen, and Tolstoy into English. Altogether, she ...

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of The Fetch by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

Edward Woodley Bowling was apparently a rector at the Church of All Saints in Houghton Conquest, Bedfordshire, England in the late 1800's, this poem is taken from Sagittulae, Random Verses. In this book's introduction he writes: "The general reader will probably think that some apology is due to him from me for publishing verses of so crude and trivial a character. I can only say that the smallest of bows should sometimes be unstrung, and that if my little arrows are flimsy and light they will, I trust, wound no one." (Summary by David Lawrence)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Moon-Drowned by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2024. ------ James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. Riley's chief legacy was his influence in fostering the creation of a Midwestern cultural identity and his contributions to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature. With other writers of his era, he helped create a caricature of Midwesterners and formed a literary community that produced works rivaling the established eastern literati. - Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of Spring and Fall, by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 12th, 2006.

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Longing for Spring-time by George L. Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21, 2021. ------ George Logan Moore was an Irish poet, there is not much information on him out there. This poem is taken from the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, March 15, 1879, apparently, he was paid 10s 6d for this poem. This Fortnightly Poem is dedicated to the long-awaited coming of Spring. - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Naughty Little Comet by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for JUne 8, 2025. ------ Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. During her childhood, Wilcox amused herself by reading books and newspapers, which may have influenced her later writing. Around the age of 8, Wilcox turned to writing poetry as an outlet. When she was 13 years old, her first poem was published. - Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 25, 2020. ------ Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth's volume Poems (1844) brought her great success, attracting the admiration of the writer Robert Browning. Their correspondence, courtship, and marriage were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. - Summary by Wikipedia

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013.

The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Republican...one thought Sacco and Vanzetti guilty. But if one was a university liberal, one tended to think the trial unfair..." In this book, historical author Francis Russell brings the participants and events of this tragic drama to life. The book received the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime in 1963. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi

Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting read, knowing as we do what fell out for Russia in the next decade. The Russian Revolution did not appear from nowhere in 1917. Durland's account shows the rumblings that existed before the explosion. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)

An impassioned plea by Wilberforce about putting an end to slavery in the West Indies based on his view of the institution as a national disgrace and a moral hazard. He emphasized the need for British citizens to take action and demand an end to the practice as well as highlighting the need for religious leaders to step up and teach Christianity to slaves all across the West Indies. In Wilberforce's view, the most serious of all the vices of the West-Indian system was the nearly universal destitution of religious and moral instruction among the slaves. (Summary by progressingamerica)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Old Poets By Alfred Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 14, 2023. ------ A whimsical look at poets is presented In this Fortnightly. This poem appears to be dedicated to his close friend and editor Robert Holliday and is taken from Trees, and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer (1914) - Summary by David Lawrence

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 24th, 2010.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Publisher by C.J. Dennis. This was the weekly poetry project for June 28th, 2009.

Some of the states who rebelled against the Federal Government in the American Civil War issued statements by nascent governing bodies explaining why they were attempting to leave. Here are the statements, published in 1860 and 1861, of South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Mississippi, and Georgia. - Summary by David Wales

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Reporter by Ivan Turgenev. Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 5, 2023. ------ This week we have a prose piece by Ivan Turgenev, taken from DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS by Ivan Turgenev; Translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett (1920) - Summary by David Lawrence

Bloomsbury presents Wolverine: Weapon X by Jim Rugg, read by Alexander Cendese. Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain - this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got his adamantium...

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