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This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013.

This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2013.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2014.

This is a collection of 13 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2014.

This is a collection of 17 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2014.

This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2014.

This is a collection of 18 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2014.

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2014.

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2014.

This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014.

This is a collection of 32 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2015.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2015.

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2015. Two poems of medium length in this collection: #04 “Copernicus” (13:38) is from the volume “Watchers of the Sky” by Alfred Noyes. #12 “A Joyful Meditation of the Coronation of King Henry the Eighth” (14:12). The original text was published as an eight-page pamphlet. In the surviving copy, the bottoms of the pages have been cropped. A total of three lines are therefore missing, and a further three have been reconstructed from their surviving portions. The html version of the poem shows these reconstructions. This poem has been read using modern English pronunciation. Some words have no modern equivalent, including such words as encensing, entenderment, soote, boote, withouten, inuentions, contrarious, and minnish which is short for dimminish. Emyspery = hemisphere. Quayre (quire) = an eight-page printed booklet. Tene = harm, injury or hurt. Rother = rudder The “monk of bery” was John Lydgate of Bury St. Edmunds (c. 1370 – c. 1451) a monk and poet.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2015.

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2015.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2015.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015.

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015.

This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2015.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015.

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2016.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016.

This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016.

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016.

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2016.

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016.

This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2016.

This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot “And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.” – Genesis 4:21 Re-imagined from a few bare lines in Genesis, George Eliot?s epic poem describes man?s loss of innocense, the birth of animal husbandry, of industry, commerce, and art. In a surprise ending, she tells of human transcendence. Each of us has a divine gift to offer the world. (Summary by Josh Mitteldorf)

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2017.

This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2017.

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2017.

This is a collection of 40 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2017.

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2017.

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. Introduction by the reader: This is one of the best-loved classics of Sufi literature. In his own land, Attar is better known than Rumi or Hafiz. Translation is by Edward Fitzgerald, who 160 years ago brought the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam to English-speaking audiences. Lacking governance and beginning to descend into anarchy, the birds come together to agree on leadership. The brilliant and charismatic Tajidar the Wise rises to speak, and proposes that the birds undertake a long and treacherous pilgrimage to seek salvation and transfiguration from Simorgh, the Holy Presence. Each of the birds presents his special reasons for declining the trip, which Tajidar rebuts with a relevant moral tale. The trip will be arduous, and will require each bird to leave behind not just his possessions but his family, his pride, his attachments. But the reward–if Simorgh’s grace be granted–will be freedom and knowledge of self and the world. All the birds set out and the vast majority perish along the way. For the thirty that reach their appointment with destiny, there is a surprise in store. Hint: “Simorgh” in Persian can be read to mean “30 birds”.

This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2017.

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017.

This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.

This is a collection of 45 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2017.

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2017.

This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2018

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2018

This is a collection of 44 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2018

This is a collection of 39 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2018.

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018.

This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2018.