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 016
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:
- I Remember, I Remember - ExEmGe
- Enough - aileron
- He and She - aileron
- The Wicked Zebra - aileron
- All in green my love went riding- lugubres
- Where's Madge Then - lugubres
- O sweet spontaneous - lugubres
- the sky was - lugubres
- Buffalo Bill's - lugubres
- this is the garden: colours come and go - lugubres
- it may not always be so; and i say - lugubres
- I have found what you are like - lugubres
- October's Bright Blue Weather - Rainbow
- Be a Friend - Rainbow
- April - Cloud Mountain
- Buffalo Bill's - Cloud Mountain
- Accomplished Facts - Cloud Mountain
- Lawyers Know Too Much - Cloud Mountain
- To the Dead Favourite of Liu Ch'e - Cloud Mountain
- The Face on the Barroom Floor - SmokestackJones
