COMPLETE: Short Poetry Collection 015 - PO/ll

Solo or group recordings that are finished and fully available for listeners
LibraryLady
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Post by LibraryLady »

All recordings can be found on the catalog page: http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-015/

LibriVox Short Poetry

**Notice: We now have a separate collection (thanks Alan!) for long poems. If your recording is longer than 5 minutes, please post it in the current long poems collection thread. Thanks!**

This is an open thread; you can choose *any* public domain poem or poems you wish. This is for those times when you think, "I'd like to record something, but can't manage a whole chapter" - a poem or two will do the trick. Each collection will consist of twenty poems.

You can do a series of poems if you like; there are no restrictions. It doesn't matter at all if someone else has done the same poem. In fact more versions of the same poems are great! If there's a particular poem you love, post it here with a request for more versions of the same. If you are interested to see what has been done previously, check the index here: http://librivox.org/poetry-story-index/

Bartleby is a great resource for public-domain poetry: http://www.bartleby.com/verse/

Another good source is Poets' Corner: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/index.html

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.

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: [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 015
Genre: Speech
(You can put "Recorded by ...." in the Comments section if you wish)

What To Do With Your Recording
You may either post a link to your completed files here in the thread or email them to me via http://www.yousendit.com/ at this address: ac DOT timshel AT gmail DOT com. If you use yousendit, please post the link it generates in this thread as well.

When you post your link, please also include the following information:
  • your name as you would like it credited on the catalog page and any URL you wish your name to link to (Note: This is necessary only if your information is not yet in the wiki: http://librivox.org/wiki/moin.cgi/ListOfReadersCatalogNames#preview)
  • a link to the source of the poem (Gutenberg, Bartleby, Poets' Corner, etc. so that I can verify it is in the public domain

Submissions Received wrote:
  1. Thread of Life - Cloud Mountain
  2. To Alison Cunningham - optimistmb
  3. Bed in Summer - optimistmb
  4. A Thought - optimistmb
  5. At the Sea-side - optimistmb
  6. Young Night Thought - optimistmb
  7. Whole Duty of Children - optimistmb
  8. Rain - optimistmb
  9. Pirate Story - optimistmb
  10. Foreign Lands - optimistmb
  11. Windy Nights - optimistmb
  12. Thistle-down - thistlechick
  13. Litany to Satan - Nidhogg
  14. Pied Beauty - Mme Denney
  15. Youth - aileron
  16. If - lugubres
  17. Thy Fingers Make Early Flowers - lugubres
  18. When Life Is Quite Through With - lugubres
  19. Little Boy Blue - edgood
  20. Annabel Lee - edgood
Last edited by LibraryLady on October 6th, 2006, 9:53 pm, edited 7 times in total.
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lugubres
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Post by lugubres »

I would like to do e e cumming's poems. The only one catalogued right now is Nobody loses all the time.

I would like to do the following (from Poet's Corner)
-If
-The Eagle
-when life is quite through with
-Thy fingers make early flowers of
-All in green my love went riding
-Where's Madge then,
-when god lets my body be
-In Just-
-unto thee i
-if i believe
-O sweet spontaneous
-the sky was
-Buffalo Bill's
-this is the garden:colours come and go
-it may not always be so; and i say
-i have found what you are like

Please let me if it's okay and how long do I have to finish them.

Thanks. Lugubres
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Post by LibraryLady »

Lugubres,

This is an open project so you can do as many as you want, whenever you want, as long as they are in the public domain. It sounds like you've gotten that cleared since they are on Poets' Corner. Just post them here as you finish them and I'll add them to the list. When we reach twenty, we start a new collection. I hope that answers your questions. :)
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Post by Cloud Mountain »

"The Thread of Life" (1)
by Christina Rossetti (Ver. 1)

Text source GUTENBERG
Sound File DOWNLOAD

_____________________________________
Because you'll ask, I may as well give an explanation here, now... This poem is often anthologized* showing just the first sonnet of the three that constitute the full poem and so this recording of just the first sonnet under the title "The Thread of Life" can stand alone.

As for my mention of a version (Ver. 1), I am considering submitting yet another version of this same sonnet —as I did a multiple recording of six different readings of the poem this evening and feel at least three give different interpretations. Might be interesting to make them available as well.

Hopefully this "explanation" hasn't confused you further Goode LibraryLady. Thanks.



* The Oxford Book of Nineteenth Century English Verse, Chosen by John Hayward
[url=http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=254]Alan's LV catalog[/url]
LibraryLady
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Post by LibraryLady »

Alan, both of those links are to the text. Perhaps you meant for one to link to the recording? ;)
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Post by Cloud Mountain »

LibraryLady wrote:Alan, both of those links are to the text. Perhaps you meant for one to link to the recording? ;)
That's odd. You weren't able to click on the words and hear me speaking?
I guess I'm not as good as I thought I was. Anyway, here's what it would
sound like if you DID click the text at gutenberg.org:

http://librivox.paintedricecakes.org/ShortPoetry/thread_of_life_rossetti_add.mp3

Sorry 'bout that.
Alan
[url=http://librivox.org/newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=254]Alan's LV catalog[/url]
LibraryLady
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Post by LibraryLady »

Got that one Alan, thanks.
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Post by optimistmb »

I put together the first ten poems from Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child’s Garden of Verses.

To Alison Cunningham -- audio -- text
Bed in Summer -- audio -- text
A Thought -- audio -- text
At the Sea-side -- audio -- text
Young Night Thought -- audio -- text
Whole Duty of Children -- audio -- text
Rain -- audio -- text
Pirate Story -- audio -- text
Foreign Lands -- audio -- text
Windy Nights -- audio -- text

Screen name -- optimistmb
Initials -- msk
Catalog name -- Mike Kauffmann
URL -- http://www.kauffmann.net/audio/

This is my first attempt at creating an audio book recording. I am a part time DJ and these were made in the station's production studio. I know very little about the software I'm using (Adobe Audition) but someone showed me noise reduction and normalizing. Those filters have been applied to these files. Any recommendations, both software tips and voice constructive critisism, would be greatly appreciated.
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Post by LibraryLady »

Wow, Mike, that's one heck of a debut! Your files sound wonderful, great sound quality, great reading voice. All of the technical specifications were perfect and you gave me all the information I need so I'm afraid I have no recommendations for you except to read more for us!

One thing - if you plan on doing more or all of Stevenson's poems, you should start a solo project for it. As things are, these are fine in the short poetry collection. But I do hope you'll go lend your voice to some of the group projects as well. Welcome to LibriVox!
Annie Coleman Rothenberg
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Post by thistlechick »

Thistle-down by E. Pauline Johnson
Read by: Betsie Bush http://betsie.info
http://betsie.info/librivox/misc/thistle-down_johnson_blb.mp3
~ Betsie
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LibraryLady
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Post by LibraryLady »

Sounds good Betsie, thanks! Do you have a link to the text handy?
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Post by optimistmb »

Thank you for your thoughts. A solo project sounds fun but maybe not on this subject. I know nothing of poetry and only did the above because starting with short works was recommended by this site.

Actually, choosing a subject will probably be my most difficult task. I'm an avid reader but I generally don't read anything more than a year or two old, if that. The only suggestion I saw of immediate interest was G.A. Henty. Given time, I guess I'll figure out what I want to do.
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Post by thistlechick »

LibraryLady wrote:Sounds good Betsie, thanks! Do you have a link to the text handy?
Ah yes, thanks for reminding me =)

It's included in Flint and Feather:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5625
~ Betsie
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Post by Nidhogg »

Here's one I found a while back and just found it in the public domain. Just in time to add for Halloween

The Gutenberg page:

Forty-two Poems by James Elroy Flecker

and the yousendit link:

http://download.yousendit.com/936B2ACA79D639C0

Hope you enjoy.

Nidhogg
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Post by LibraryLady »

optimistmb wrote:Thank you for your thoughts. A solo project sounds fun but maybe not on this subject. I know nothing of poetry and only did the above because starting with short works was recommended by this site.

Actually, choosing a subject will probably be my most difficult task. I'm an avid reader but I generally don't read anything more than a year or two old, if that. The only suggestion I saw of immediate interest was G.A. Henty. Given time, I guess I'll figure out what I want to do.
Well, you're off to a great start so I'm sure you'll do well with whatever you end up choosing!
Annie Coleman Rothenberg
http://www.anniecoleman.com/

"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
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