COMPLETE: Short Poetry Collection 045 - PO/kh

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kristin
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Post by kristin »

This collection is now complete and can be found here: http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-045/

LibriVox Short Poetry Collection 045

This is an open collection: you may submit any recording of a public domain poem without claiming it first. This collection is for poems less than five minutes in length and will consist of 20 poems. When this collection is full, another one will be begun.

To see what has been recorded already, you can search the LibriVox Database by author or title, or browse by poetry - but remember that we welcome multiple versions!

Bartleby is a great resource for public-domain poetry. Another source to try is Poets' Corner.

Recording Information
At the beginning, read the abbreviated "librivox disclaimer":
"[Poem title], by [author], read for LibriVox.org by [your name]" or some variation on that, adding date, location, your personal url, if you wish.

At the End say: "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain" and leave a few seconds of silence.

If you are new, please check the Recording Notes thread before recording:
http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6427#6430
If this is your first recording, you'll also find this useful:
http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/NewbieGuideToRecording

Technical Details
Please be sure that your recording software is set to the following technical specifications:
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44100 kHzs

Save your recording as an mp3 file using the following filename and ID3 tag format:

File name all in lowercase (no leading articles - the, a, an): [poem's title]_[author's last name]_[your initials].mp3
(e.g. raven_poe_apc.mp3)

ID3 tags (version 2):

Title: Poem Title (e.g. The Raven)
Artist: Author Name (e.g. Edgar Allan Poe)
Album: LibriVox Short Poetry 045
Genre: Speech
(You can put "Recorded by ...." in the Comments section if you wish)

What To Do With Your Recording
Please post a link to your completed files here in the thread.
  • If you have your own server space, post the link here. Please leave the file in this location until the project is catalogued. Even better, upload the file to the LibriVox Uploader, see below.
  • If you don't have your own server space, please upload with the LibriVox Uploader:
    http://upload.librivox.org/
    username: librivox
    password: librivox123
    If this doesn't work, or you have questions, please check our How To Send Your Recording wiki page.
Or you can use one of the following free file transfer services: When you post your link, please also include the following information:
  • a link to the source of the poem (Gutenberg, Bartleby, Poets' Corner, etc.) so that I can verify it is in the public domain
  • if this is your first recording, your name as you would like it credited on the catalog page and any URL you wish your name to link to



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Last edited by kristin on September 16th, 2007, 9:36 pm, edited 2 times in total.
[size=75]Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. - Jasper Fforde[/size]
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noonday
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Post by noonday »

Ok, I recorded a poem for this collection. It's Percy Bysshe Shelley's Mutability. You can find the text to the poem at http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/057013.htm. I've also uploaded my recording to http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/200709/mutability_shelley_noonday.mp3.
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kristin
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Post by kristin »

Hi noonday, the link to the source didn't work but I found one here: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#3

I need to you add the end disclaimer "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain."

Also, we use initials in the file name so if you could do that instead of using noonday that would be great. If you don't want to use your real initials ndy would be fine.
[size=75]Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. - Jasper Fforde[/size]
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Post by baldinux »

"The Haunted Oak"
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

E-Text: http://www.bartleby.com/269/6.html

http://www.mediafire.com/?fyypfo5ye42
filename: hauntedoak_dunbar_jbk.mp3
filesize: 2.8 mb
filetype: 128kbps 44.1kHz Mono
length: 2min 56sec

Hope you like it! :D
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Post by kristin »

Thanks, Joe. I'm going to need to boost your volume a little. Other than that it sounded great. :D
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Post by noonday »

kristin wrote:Hi noonday, the link to the source didn't work but I found one here: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/shell01.html#3

I need to you add the end disclaimer "End of poem. This recording is in the public domain."

Also, we use initials in the file name so if you could do that instead of using noonday that would be great. If you don't want to use your real initials ndy would be fine.
Ok, here's the updated file with the public domain disclaimer at the end:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/200709/mutability_shelley_ndy.mp3
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Post by kristin »

Thanks, noonday. :thumbs:
[size=75]Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. - Jasper Fforde[/size]
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Post by Clarica »

I've got one:

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/200709/wife-woman_spencer_cjrg.mp3
http://www.bartleby.com/269/99.html
The Wife-Woman
Anne Spencer
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Post by kristin »

I think you might have lost this line in editing - @0:42 "I cannot love them; and you."
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Post by Clarica »

kristin wrote:I think you might have lost this line in editing - @0:42 "I cannot love them; and you."
Thanks! I've corrected it, and uploaded it anew-same link of course. :)
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Post by kristin »

Thanks, Clarica. :thumbs:
[size=75]Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world. - Jasper Fforde[/size]
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Paul Santagada
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Post by Paul Santagada »

Hi, thought I would do Mist, by Thoreau. Please let me know if there's anything I can improve!

http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/200709/mist_thoreau_pls.mp3

Thanks!
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Post by kristin »

Thanks, Paul. Everything sounds good. :D
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Post by Shurtagal »

Here is one for you:

There Will Come Soft Rains, Sara Teasdale

http://www.studioae.com/LibriVox/shurtagal/softrain_teasdale_stl.mp3 Audio

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/%22There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains%22 Text
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Post by kristin »

Thanks, Shurtagal. :D
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