The final day of National Poetry Month 2011 and we end it with some Shakespeare. We have Prospero’s final lines, his epilogue, from The Tempest.

Thank you to everyone who listened and thanks to everyone on the staff who participated. I’m glad we gave this a second shot this year.

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Last year at this time we closed out with Dom reading Yeats: “The Second Coming.”

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Day 29 of National Poetry Month 2011 and because I can’t resist: more William Carlos Williams and “A Love Song.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to an original in the form of “Dies Irae.”

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Day 28 of National Poetry Month 2011 and here we have Edna St. Vincent Millay and “Witch-Wife.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Dindrane brought you some Yeats with “The Mermaid.”

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Day 27 of National Poetry Month 2011 and this is my last original piece I’ll be throwing onto the table this year. “The Stygian Depths of You and I and All.” Hope you enjoy it.

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Last year at this time we were listening to Matthew Arnold and “Dover Beach.”

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Day 26 of National Poetry Month for 2011 and we bring some Robert Frost to the table with “Mending Wall.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Tennyson and “The Kraken.”

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Dom provides something special for Day 25 of National Poetry Month Audio:

Widge back again. So this is a single audio file. Dom leads off reading the original German, and he asked me to tackle the new English translation. His performance is much cooler, I’ll just go ahead and warn you of that.

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Last year at this time we were listening to an original.
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Day 24 of National Poetry Month for 2011 and Dindrane returns with a reading of “The Battle of the Trees” from The Book of Taliesin.

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Last year at this time we were listening to Lord Byron and “She Walks in Beauty.”

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Day 23 of National Poetry Month for 2011 and our Cruellest Month Poetry Audio celebration brings us back round again to Rox and another visit with Palmer Cox’s Brownies. This time it’s “The Brownies at Base-Ball.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Housman and “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff.”

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Day 22 of National Poetry Month for 2011. Cruellest Month, the Poetry Audio celebration moves on, with some more John Donne and “A Nocturnal Upon S. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Eliot and “Prufrock.”

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The 21st Day of National Poetry Month for 2011. Our Cruellest Month celebration of Poetry Audio continues with Dindrane, who gives us a great reading of Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Shelley and “Ozymandias.”

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Day 20 of National Poetry Month. And now for 30 Days of Poetry Audio, Cosette reads for you some Hilaire Belloc and “Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to “The Outpost” by Lovecraft, read by Dom.

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Day 19 of National Poetry Month. And this time around for 30 Days of Poetry Audio, Rox is here with a special reading of Palmer Cox: “Brownies on Bicycles.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to an original by Widge.

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Day 18 of National Poetry Month. And for 30 Days of Poetry Audio today we bring you two titans meeting…at least in words. It’s Lovecraft with “Where Once Poe Walked.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Cosette reading some instructive Belloc.

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Day 17 of National Poetry Month. And for 30 Days of Poetry Audio today we bring you some Wallace Stevens… “Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Dindrane giving us some Horace. In two languages, no less.

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Day 16 of National Poetry Month. And for 30 Days of Poetry Audio–today the mic goes to ScottC, who brings us some Catullus. It’s “Your Teeth: to Egnatius.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Lovecraft and “The Cats.”

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Halfway through National Poetry Month and our 30 Days of Poetry Audio. That means even those of us with liberal arts degrees can handle the math involved–we’re at Day 15. And now Cosette reads for you “The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear.

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Last year at this time we were listening to John Donne and “Go and Catch a Falling Star.”

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Day 14 of National Poetry Month. And for 30 Days of Poetry Audio we pass the mic to Dom, who brings us some Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s “Man’s Limitation.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Wallace Stevens and “The Emperor of Ice Cream.”

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Day 13 of National Poetry Month. And for 30 Days of Poetry Audio we have some Rudyard Kipling and “If.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Dindrane reading Yeats: “The Cat and the Moon.”

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We return and it’s Day 12 of National Poetry Month. Time for more of 30 Days of Poetry Audio. It’s time for some more John Donne and “The Flea.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Lewis Carroll and “The Jabberwocky.”

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It’s Day 11 of National Poetry Month and back with more of 30 Days of Poetry Audio. We return to Yeats and his classic “Leda and the Swan.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to John Donne and “The Triple Fool.”

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As we continue down the road of National Poetry Month and have Day 10 of 30 Days of Poetry Audio, it’s time to go back to Edgar Allan Poe and this time it’s his poem, “El Dorado.”

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Last year at this time we were listening to Yeats and “The Stolen Child.”

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National Poetry Month continues and so do we: it’s 30 Days of Poetry Audio. This time around Dindrane gives us her reading of “You Will Hear Thunder,” by Anna Akhmatova.

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Last year at this time we were checking out Dom’s version of Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream.”

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Our parade through National Poetry Month continues with another day of 30 Days of Poetry Audio. This time we pay another visit to William Carlos Williams. Last year at this time it was “The Last Words of My English Grandmother.” This time around it’s “Queen Anne’s Lace.”

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30 Days of Poetry Audio continues with a visit again to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Last year it was “Sonnets from the Portuguese XXII” but this year we go with a reading of quite possibly the nicest attempt at a poetic female-to-male “Thank You But No” ever. It’s “The Lady’s Yes.”

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For National Poetry Month, we continue with 30 Days of Poetry Audio. This time it’s another original, from our very own Thespia. It’s “Sonnet Omega Three.”

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National Poetry Month continues. So does our 30 Days of Poetry Audio podcasting/reading exercise. Here’s an original from the me, “Grey Spirit Yearning.”

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National Poetry Month continues. So does our 30 Days of Poetry Audio podcasting/reading exercise. We return to Lewis Carroll, who we spent some time with at this point last year. This time it’s a very short poem, “How Doth the Little Crocodile.”

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National Poetry Month continues. So does our 30 Days of Poetry Audio podcasting/reading exercise. We return to Gerard Manley Hopkins, who we visited at this point last year. This time it’s his lovely short poem, “Pied Beauty.”

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30 Days of Poetry Audio for National Poetry Month hits its second day with Alfred Lord Tennyson. Yes, we led off with him last year but considering the Poe we had to offer up, it seemed fair to let them swap places. Because at this point last year we were checking out Poe’s “The City in the Sea.” But this time around it’s Tennyson’s “Tithonus.”

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So we return to yet another April and yet another National Poetry Month. Just like last year, we’re going to be posting a new poetry recording each day. Some of it will be original. Some of it will be classic material. Some of it will be classic material presented in an entirely new way.

We’re leading off our first poem this year with Edgar Allan Poe‘s “The Raven.” Yes, we’ve showcased it before. Read by James Earl Jones, Vincent Price and Christopher Walken. I’ve even taken a crack at it.

But this something different. Our own Tee Quillin did a straight reading of it and handed it to one of his college classes as an assignment and said, “Do something with this.” Michael Blevins answered the challenge with a new translation of the classic piece that is…well, NSFW for language. We enjoyed it so much we asked for permission to lead off this year with it and we got it. So. Enjoy.

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We kicked off last year with Tennyson and “Ulysses.”
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