COMPLETE:- Short poetry (Volume 2) - PO/kr

Solo or group recordings that are finished and fully available for listeners
c10h13no
Posts: 17
Joined: January 6th, 2006, 10:04 am

Post by c10h13no »

Title: I'm Nobody
Author: Emily Dickinson
Length: 00:00:40
Reader: Ray Bush
Reader URL: http://raybush.info/
Poem Link: http://raybush.info/librivox/nobody_dickinson_rkb.mp3
LibraryLady
Posts: 3117
Joined: November 29th, 2005, 5:10 pm
Location: St. Louis, Missouri

Post by LibraryLady »

ChipDoc wrote:Thanks for the kind words! Don't worry, they won't all be that way. I'm going to sit down this evening at work and read a chapter or two of something and I'll be a lot more restrained.

-Chip
Wow, Chip, I finally got around to listening to this and it is brilliant! If you put so much feeling and animation into all your readings, I would be thrilled. :) This reminds me of the scene in the Anne of Green Gables movie where she performs this (although in the book I believe she performs something else), a very memorable scene. I also have a very clear memory of reading this in a middle school English class and what an impression it made on me. Great job!
Annie Coleman Rothenberg
http://www.anniecoleman.com/

"I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice." ~Whitman
fox
Posts: 68
Joined: December 19th, 2005, 11:11 am
Location: Germany
Contact:

Post by fox »

I would like to contribute some poetry... in German. :roll:

How do we want to handle it? Not at all? Just include it in "Short Poetry Vol. II"? Separate thread? Separate coordinator?
Peter Why
Posts: 5815
Joined: November 24th, 2005, 3:54 am
Location: Chigwell (North-East London, U.K.)

Post by Peter Why »

At a guess ... not discussed with anyone else ... we'd probably best have different collections for each language, with a moderator .. or at the very least, a reader/checker ... who can speak the same language.
raynr
Posts: 3165
Joined: December 4th, 2005, 3:45 pm
Location: Munich, Germany

Post by raynr »

I'm willing to volunteer to moderate a poetry collection in German, when there is any need of it.
kri
Posts: 5319
Joined: January 3rd, 2006, 8:34 pm
Location: Keene NH
Contact:

Post by kri »

Title: The Lady of Shalott
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Time:9:13
Read by Kristin Luoma greenkri.com

http://www.greenkri.com/librivox/the_lady_of_shalott_alt_kl.mp3

What do you think? For some reason I feel slightly self conscious about my poetry reading. There's just something about poetry that's different.

By the way, Chip I must chime in with my compliments as well on your reading of The Highwayman, and thank you for introducing me to such an interesting poem.
kayray
Posts: 11828
Joined: September 26th, 2005, 9:10 am
Location: Union City, California
Contact:

Post by kayray »

raynr wrote:I'm willing to volunteer to moderate a poetry collection in German, when there is any need of it.
Raynr -- if you want to start a new german poetry thread over in Short Poems, go right ahead! You know what to do.

I might even read one, you never know. I memorized some Rilke in college. Der Panther, Herbsttag...

Kri -- So glad you've done this poem. I know that one bit from Agatha Christie's "The Mirror Crack'd" -- "Out flew the web and opened wide..." Listening now, sounds lovely.

Kara
Kara
http://kayray.org/
--------
"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)
kri
Posts: 5319
Joined: January 3rd, 2006, 8:34 pm
Location: Keene NH
Contact:

Post by kri »

kayray wrote: Kri -- So glad you've done this poem. I know that one bit from Agatha Christie's "The Mirror Crack'd" -- "Out flew the web and opened wide..." Listening now, sounds lovely.

Kara
Thank you :) I enjoyed doing it. I love the way the words just flow, and there's this great rhythm to the poem.
Peter Why
Posts: 5815
Joined: November 24th, 2005, 3:54 am
Location: Chigwell (North-East London, U.K.)

Post by Peter Why »

Twenty two poems now, so this collection is closed. Please save your poems for the next collection.


By the way, "Prufrock" was beautiful. I've never been a particular lover of T.S. Eliot's poetry, but that was very well done.

I've downloaded the other, later poems, but not listened yet .. I have now:

Ray, an odd little poem, well read; I'll have to have a look at others of hers. Especially for such a short poem, you could cut down the introduction to something like "Nobody, by Emily Dickinson, read for Librivox dot org by Ray Bush".

Kristin, thanks for the Lady of Shalott: that's my favorite painting; it's hanging in the Tate Gallery ... I drop in every year or so to get that little prickle behind the eyelids and to fall in love again.

.. and thank you, too Betsie.

Thank you all very much.

Peter
Last edited by Peter Why on January 7th, 2006, 5:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
kayray
Posts: 11828
Joined: September 26th, 2005, 9:10 am
Location: Union City, California
Contact:

Post by kayray »

Peter -- it might be best, while we're still troubleshooting the validator, to fix the tags and filesnames of this batch on your own, then send them to me in a zip...

And thank you VERY much for handling this collection!

Kara
Kara
http://kayray.org/
--------
"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)
ChipDoc
Posts: 1277
Joined: January 4th, 2006, 3:11 am
Location: Tampa, FL
Contact:

Post by ChipDoc »

Ah well, I guess I should have read this far before recording The Raven by Poe. Maybe next time...
-Chip
Retired to Colorado
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
~Mark Twain
kayray
Posts: 11828
Joined: September 26th, 2005, 9:10 am
Location: Union City, California
Contact:

Post by kayray »

ChipDoc wrote:Ah well, I guess I should have read this far before recording The Raven by Poe. Maybe next time...
Oh don't worry, Chip, we'll be starting another short poetry collection in a day or two (When Peter has recovered from this one). So just hang on to The Raven for a little while...
Kara
http://kayray.org/
--------
"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)
ChipDoc
Posts: 1277
Joined: January 4th, 2006, 3:11 am
Location: Tampa, FL
Contact:

Post by ChipDoc »

I'm not worried about it. It was fun to do for its own sake. If anyone cares to listen to it, it's here:

http://ChipDoc.com/LibriVox/the_raven_poe_ea_chip.mp3
8.15 MB/8:54
-Chip
Retired to Colorado
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
~Mark Twain
kayray
Posts: 11828
Joined: September 26th, 2005, 9:10 am
Location: Union City, California
Contact:

Post by kayray »

Ok folks, your poems are finally cataloged:

http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-002/

I'm unlocking this thread for a short time. I hope each of you will check over your poems, make sure the links work, check my spelling, your name, your url, etc, and let me know if there's anything I need to fix.

Great job, everyone!

Kara
Kara
http://kayray.org/
--------
"Mary wished to say something very sensible into her Zoom H2 Handy Recorder, but knew not how." -- Jane Austen (& Kara)
Guest

Post by Guest »

Looks beautiful, Kara.
Thank you for all of your hard work.
kayray wrote:Ok folks, your poems are finally cataloged:

http://librivox.org/short-poetry-collection-002/

I'm unlocking this thread for a short time. I hope each of you will check over your poems, make sure the links work, check my spelling, your name, your url, etc, and let me know if there's anything I need to fix.

Great job, everyone!

Kara
Post Reply