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Fog

Lola Ridge
Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences, published in numerous magazines and collected in five books of poetry. Along with other political poets of the early Modernist period, Ridge has received renewed critical attention since the beginning of the 21st century and is praised for making poetry directly from harsh urban life.
Seasons' Comfort

Robert Laurence Binyon
Robert Laurence Binyon, was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services.
Said and Did

George MacDonald
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Said and Did by George MacDonald..
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 2, 2018.
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors, including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit, and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master".
Magnet and The Churn

W. S. Gilbert
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Magnet and The Churn by W. S. Gilbert.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 26, 2020.
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A bit of frivolity in these trying times. This Weekly Poem is taken from Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by W. S. Gilbert.
Main Street

Joyce Kilmer
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Main Street by Joyce Kilmer.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 1, 2019.
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Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Roman Catholic religious faith, Kilmer was also a journalist, literary critic, lecturer, and editor.
Spring Song And A Later

James Whitcomb Riley
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Spring Song And A Later by James Whitcomb Riley.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1, 2022.
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This Weekly Poem is taken from Riley Songs of Home by James Whitcomb Riley (1910)
Momentary Grief

George Crabbe
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Momentary Grief by George Crabbe.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2022, in honour of Crabbe's 190th birthday on February 3.
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George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon and clergyman. He is best known for his narrative poetry. This piece reflects the religious facet of his life.
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Lost Lagoon

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Lost Lagoon by Emily Pauline Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2022.
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Emily Pauline Johnson was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry and her mother was an English immigrant. Johnson was notable for her poems, short stories, and performances that celebrated her mixed-race heritage, drawing from both Indigenous and English influences.
Thanksgiving Dream

Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Thanksgiving Dream by Joseph Crosby Lincoln.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 17, 2019.
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A humorous LibriVox look at Thanksgiving. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied with "spinning yarns" that made readers feel good about themselves and their neighbors.
Christmastide

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Christmastide by E. Pauline Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 15, 2019.
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Emily Pauline Johnson (also known in Mohawk as Tekahionwake –pronounced: dageh-eeon-wageh, literally: 'double-life') commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century.
Knight - Errant

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight - Errant by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019.
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Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. This certainly encompassed much of T. S. Eliot's own interest, but whereas Eliot was also seeking a modern language and form, Cawein strove to maintain a traditional approach. Although he gained an international reputation, he has been eclipsed as the genre of poetry in which he worked became increasingly outmoded.
Lifting Of The Mist

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Lifting Of The Mist by E. Pauline Johnson.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 28, 2019.
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Her education was neither extensive nor elaborate, and embraced neither High School nor College. ... she acquired a wide general knowledge, having been, through childhood and early girlhood, a great reader, especially of poetry. Before she was twelve years old she had read every line of Scott's poems, every line of Longfellow, much of Byron, Shakespeare, and such books as Addison's "Spectator," Foster's Essays and Owen Meredith. (from the Biographical Sketch in Flint and Feather, Collected Verse By E. Pauline Johnson)
Erie Waters

E. Pauline Johnson
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her descent and also in virtue of the work she has left behind, small as the quantity of that work is. I believe that Canada will, in future times, cherish her memory more and more, for of all Canadian poets she was the most distinctly a daughter of the soil, inasmuch as she inherited the blood of the great primeval race now so rapidly vanishing, and of the greater race that has supplanted it." (Theodore Watts-Dunton, from the Introduction to Flint and Feather)
Homing Bee

E. Pauline Johnson
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by rustic palings marks her grave and on this stone is carved the one word "Pauline." There she lies among ferns and wild flowers a short distance from Siwash Rock, the story of which she has recorded in the legends of her race. In time to come a pathway to her grave will be worn by lovers of Canadian poetry who will regard it as one of the most romantic of our literary shrines. (from the Biographical Sketch in the Flint and Feather collection)
His New Brother

Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of His New Brother by Joseph Crosby Lincoln.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 18, 2018.
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A friend has objected to the title of this book on the ground that, as many of the characters and scenes described are to be found in almost any coast village of the United States, the title might, with equal fitness, be "New Jersey Ballads," or "Long Island Ballads," or something similar.

The answer to this is, simply, the particular specimens here dealt with were individuals whom the author knew in his boyhood "down on the Cape." So, "Cape Cod Ballads" it is. - The author from the introduction.
Fire - Flowers

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013.

Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse by E. Pauline Johnson.
Camper

E. Pauline Johnson
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by rustic palings marks her grave and on this stone is carved the one word "Pauline." There she lies among ferns and wild flowers a short distance from Siwash Rock, the story of which she has recorded in the legends of her race. In time to come a pathway to her grave will be worn by lovers of Canadian poetry who will regard it as one of the most romantic of our literary shrines. (from the Biographical Sketch in Flint and Feather: Collected Verse by E. Pauline Johnson)
Cry From An Indian Wife

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29, 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."
Indian Corn Planter

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 29, 2012.
Silver Filigree

Elinor Wylie
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Silver Filigree by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 27, 2011.
Train Dogs

E. Pauline Johnson
Volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Train Dogs by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6th, 2011.

Emily Pauline Johnson (Mohawk: Tekahionwake –pronounced: dageh-eeon-wageh, literally: 'double-life')(10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage; she also had half English ancestry. One such poem is the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings". Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature.
Song My Paddle Sings

E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the collection Flint and Feather by E. Pauline Johnson.

E. Pauline Johnson, also known as Tekahionwake, was born to the Mohawk Chief G.H.M. Johnson (Onwanonsyshon), and his wife, Emily S. Howells, a lady of pure English parentage. Pauline, born and raised in Canada, was a great reader and began writing poetry as a child. She died in 1913 after having poetry published in periodicals in several countries and collections of her work published in book form.
Early Spring

Inchfawn, Fay
The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her inspiration for the bright promise of beauty and new life described in Early Spring. Volunteers bring you eight different readings of this magical work to celebrate the Vernal Equinox.
Velvet Shoes

Elinor Wylie
Volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 6th, 2009.
Eliza Crossing the River

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Eliza Crossing the River by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 27th, 2014.

Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
Summer's Ending

Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.
Bedtime

George MacDonald
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle.
Twilight Hour

Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She observed life in what was then the backwoods of Ontario, including native customs, the climate, the wildlife, relations between the Canadian population and recent American settlers.

Moodie wrote of the trials and tribulations she found as a "New Canadian", rather than the advantages to be had in the colony. She claimed that her intention was not to discourage immigrants but to prepare people like herself, raised in relative wealth and with no prior experience as farmers, for what life in Canada would be like. She lived to see Canadian Confederation. (1867)
His Lady Friend

Ring Lardner
This week's poem is taken from Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner's Bib Ballads book of poetry about his child. In his Forward he says

Dear Parents:—Don't imagine, please,
It's in a boastful spirit
I fashion verses such as these;...
...But babes are babes, and mine, no doubt,
Is very much like others.
Visit From Young Gloom

Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all of whom professed strong admiration for Lardner's writing.
His Memory

Ring Lardner
Volunteers bring you 21 recordings of His Memory by Ring Lardner.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2019.
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Another poem form Bib Ballads, a collection of poems about the author's son.
Pause

Susanna Moodie
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Pause by Susanna Moodie.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 22, 2020.
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Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. This poem is taken from ENTHUSIASM AND OTHER POEMS, By SUSANNA STRICKLAND, (NOW MRS. MOODIE.) (1821)
May Garden

John Drinkwater
Volunteers bring you 20 recordings of May Garden by John Drinkwater.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 23, 2021.
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John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist.
Twilight Voices

William Allingham
William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse.
My Springs

Sidney Lanier
Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of My Springs by Sidney Lanier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013. This rather lovely poem is the poet's tribute to his wife's eyes.
Lines on a New-Born Infant

Susanna Moodie
Volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Lines on a New-Born Infant by Susanna Moodie.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 22, 2022.
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Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.
True Culture

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of True Culture by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 16, 2012.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The Worlds and I, was published in 1918, a year before her death.
Long Ago

Rossetti, Christina G.
Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Long Ago by Christina G. Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9, 2012.
Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is perhaps best known for her long poem Goblin Market, her love poem Remember, and for the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.
Lucifer in Starlight

George Meredith
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lucifer in Starlight, by George Meredith.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 4th, 2021.
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George Meredith OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but he gradually established a reputation as a novelist. His style, in both poetry and prose, was noted for its syntactic complexity; Oscar Wilde likened it to "chaos illumined by brilliant flashes of lightning". (Wikipedia)
Warning

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Warning by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 15, 2020.
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Around the age of 8, Wilcox turned to writing poetry as an outlet. When she was 13 years old, her first poem was published. After losing her subscription to The New York Mercury, and being unable to afford to resubscribe, Wilcox thought that if she could get a piece of literature published, she would at least receive a copy of the paper wherein her piece was printed. The piece that she submitted is lost, and Wilcox later admitted that she could not recall even the topic of the poem. Wilcox became known as a poet in her own state by the time she graduated from high school.
Solar Eclipse

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading.
Chant of the Firemen

Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Francis William Lauderdale Adams was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.A self-professed 'Child of his Age', Adams combined in his life and work many distinctive features of both fin de siècle British culture and the Australian radical nationalism of the 1890s, including a strong sympathy with socialist and feminist movements.
One Among So Many

Francis William Lauderdale Adams
Adams' energy and drive can be seen through his large output of written work in his short lifetime. He often wrote quickly and did little revision, living as he did on the proceeds of his own work rather than with the support of a family or sinecure. Songs of the Army of the Night has been reprinted in many editions, but the reputation of these poems ascends from their engagement with social issues, rather than their value as pure poetry for Adams was deeply sympathetic towards downtrodden races and men.
Sun Shadows

Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. This Weekly Poem is taken from her collection, Poems of Sentiment (1919)
End of Summer

Madison Cawein
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion.
Maidens' Song

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the freshness of its inspiration and the rare purity of its spirit", becoming the first Norwegian Nobel laureate. Bjørnson is considered to be one of The Four Greats (De Fire Store) among Norwegian writers, the others being Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, and Alexander Kielland. Bjørnson is also celebrated for his lyrics to the Norwegian National Anthem,
Railway Station

Archibald Lampman
Volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Railway Station by Archibald Lampman
This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 23, 2020.
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This Weekly poem highlights Lampman's description a train station at night, "The darkness brings no quiet here,"
Quiet

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 28 recordings of Quiet by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 17, 2020.
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Cawein's description of "A log-hut in the solitude", taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 3, Nature Poems.
Rain

Madison Cawein
Volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Rain by Madison Cawein.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11, 2021.
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Another Rain poem by the author, describing the beginning, duration, and aftermath of a rainstorm.
Echoes of Love’s House

Morris, William
Volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th, 2011.
William Morris was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris wrote and published poetry, fiction, and translations of ancient and medieval texts throughout his life.
Today, Morris's poetry is little-read. His fantasy romances languished out of print for decades until their rediscovery amid the great fantasy revival of the late 1960s following the phenomenal success of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. But his textile and wallpaper designs remain a staple of the Arts and Crafts Revival of the turn of the 21st century, and the reproduction of Morris designs as fabric, wrapping paper, and craft kits of all sorts is testament to the enduring appeal of his work. The William Morris Societies in Britain, the US, and Canada are active in preserving Morris's work and ideas.
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