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.
We're going to collect around twenty poems in each collection.
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 better. If there's a particular poem you love, post it here with a request for more versions of the same.
Bartleby is a great resource for public-domain poetry: http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
For short poems you don't need to do the whole song & dance intro, but it might be nice to say something like: "Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. Read by Jim Pugh for LibriVox DOT org"
1 Please name your files in lower case, with words separated by underscores (Without the brackets!):
[Title, possibly abbreviated] _ [author's surname] _ [your initials] .mp3
e.g. late_leaves_landor_py or lyke_wake_dirge_traditional_py
2 MP3 tags: (ID3 version 2)
Title: Poem Title (e.g. The Raven)
Artist: Author Name (e.g. Robert Frost)
Album: Librivox Short Poetry 004
(Naming the album that way will allow each whole collection to stay together. )
3 You could put "Recorded by ...." in the Comments section of the MP3 tags.
4 Then either use http://yousendit.com/ to send your poems to:
peter DOT planete AT tiscali DOT co DOT uk
or post a link on this thread. Please let me know what's in the file (plus the yousendit link, if that's what you've used) by posting here, too.
5 Make sure you tell me how you want to be named in the listing.
6 If you can let me know which public domain text you take your poem from, it would be great!
(e.g. A Child's Garden of Verses, gutenberg etext #94) , or http://www.bartleby.com/267/122.html)
Thanks,Short Poetry Collection 004
(Last updated 0010 gmt on 15th February /1510 pst on 14th February)
1 Richard Corey, by Edwin Arlington Robinson - Dave Bauer
2 Ozymandias, by P. B. Shelley - Marlo Dianne
3 The Aged Pilot Man, by Mark Twain - Eugene Pinto
4 Dulce et Decorum est, by Wilfred Owen - Gregory Rubin
5 Gunga Din, by Rudyard Kipling - ChipDoc
6 Ozymandias, by P.B. Shelley - Denny Sayers
7 Return, by Rudyard Kipling - Tae Jensen
8 Dover Beach, by Matthew Arnold - marlodianne
9 On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, by John Keats - laurap
10 The Second Coming, by W.B. Yeats - RobertG
11 His Excuse For Loving, by Ben Jonson - LibraryLady
12 Portrait by a Neighbour, by E.S. Millay - thistlechick
13 Ballad of the Goodly Fere, by Ezra Pound - nomenphile
14 The Highwayman, by Alfred Noyes - ThistleRose
15 Winkin, Blinkin and Nod, by Anon. - nomenphile
16 The South Country, by Hilaire Belloc - Peter Why
17 When I have Fears That I May Cease To Be - John Keats - nomenphile
18 Jenny Kiss'd Me, by Leigh Hunt - Ted McElroy
19 Sherwood, by Alfred Noyes - Marilyn Saklatvala
20 The Sound of the Trees, by Robert Frost - Heather Barnett
Peter