Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. ( Matt Pierard)
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Is there a deadline? We ask that you submit your recorded sections within 1-2 months of placing your claim. Please note that to be fair to the readers who have completed their sections in a timely way, if you haven't submitted your recording(s) after two months, your sections will automatically be re-opened for other readers to claim, unless you post in this thread to request an extension. Extensions will be granted at the discretion of the Book Coordinator. If you cannot do your section, for whatever reason, just let me know and it'll go back to the pool. There's no shame in this; we're all volunteers and things happen.Please do not sign up for more sections than you can complete within the two month deadline.
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"[poem title], from Slabs of the Sunburnt West by Carl Sandburg read for LibriVox.org" by [your name], adding date, location, your personal URL, etc., if you wish."
END of recording
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AFTER recording Need noise-cleaning?
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sunburntwest_##_sandburg_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. sunburntwest_01_sandburg_128kb.mp3)
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Matt, for any poems you did not want to claim yourself or have other ideas for, could you please sign me up for these?
2, 7, 11, 16, 18, 19, 24, 25
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Washington Monument by Night
Four Steichen Prints
At the Gates of Tombs
Crossing the Paces
Caligari
Feather Lights
Ambassadors of Grief
Without the Cane and the Derby
Thanks for any of these if so it goes.
Eva D If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then, this parting was well made.