others "going public"
Poesia/Poetry, by Pablo Nerud, read by Diane Havens
Heloise Letter to Abelard
read by Diane Havens
Letter from Charles L. Dodgson read by Simon Vance
To My Old Master read by Kyle Munley
Romeo & Juliet - Balcony Scene read by Diane Havens, Peter Bishop
Tender Buttons (A Chair) (Gertrude Stein), narrated by Diane Havens
Adams Curse (Yeats), narrated by Diane Havens
The Artillieryman from The War of the Worlds (H.G.Wells),
narrated by Peter Bishop
From the Prologue to Beowulf, narrated Robert Jadah
Extract from The Pickwick Papers (Dickens), narrated by Simon Vance
A Christmas Carol (Dickens),
narrated by Kyle Munley
Ode to the West Wind (Percy Bysse Shelley), narrated by Diane Havens
The Bells (Edgard Allan Poe), narrated by Diane Havens
Belle Scrooge Dialog (Dickesn), narrated by Diane Havens
Gift of the Magi
(O. Henry), narrated by
Diane Havens
For Those Who Sacrified (Kemel Ataturk), narrated by
Simon Vance
To A Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing (William Butler Yeats) - submitted by W. W. Norton
The Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain), narrated by Kyle Munley
From Dodgson Sr. to Dodgson Jr. (Lewis Carroll), narrated by Simon Vance
Cyrano's Death Scene, narrated by Diane Havens & Robert Jadah
The Story of My Heart, narrated by Simon Vance
Letters of Abigail Adams,
narrated by Diane Havens
Serialization of DeathWorld,
narrated by Jeffrey Kafer
Wife of Bath's Tale, narrated by Diane Havens, Robert Judah
Love Note from Mark Twain
to His Wife, Narrated by Grover Garder
Every Friday, I produce a short piece of audio from a work in the public domain/shared via Creative Commons licensing. All are welcome to join in the celebration of such work - simply find a piece of artistic work that is in the public domain and share it (on your blog, via a sound clip, etc.), then tweet the link using the hashtag #GoingPublic. And for those looking for written works in the public domain, you really can't do better than Project Gutenberg.
2.17.12 Si Tu Me Olvidas / If You Forget Me, by Pablo Neruda
The great beauty of Twitter is discovery of that which you might never have noticed/found/read. Earlier this week, as part of the meme, #TodaysPoem, someone tweeted a snippet from Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's "Si Tu Me Olvidas/If You Forget Me," and I simply had to stop whatever I was doing and find more of his work.
If you haven't read any Neruda, go. Do it right now. Don't even bother listening to this piece first. It is so lyrical, raw, beautiful. Love isn't the right word for how I feel about his work - I need it, like I need Dunn or Pastan. I need Neruda now.
But it isn't just the words, it's the flow of the language, which I confess that until I read this poem in Spanish, I had never found Spanish to be. But the sensuality in the rhythm, in the way the words fit together in Spanish is exquisite. I knew immediately that I couldn't simply read this in English, but had to read it as it was written. Time to brush off those 7 years of Spanish from another lifetime...
So with the assistance of the lovely Cassandra Neace, from Indie Reader Houston (http://indiereaderhouston.com/), I've chosen two versions to share. The first features English and Spanish, flowing together. The second, is a straight reading in Spanish and then in English. Hope you enjoy them
And Cassandra has posted her own recordings of a Neruda poem...check them out.
Previous "Going Public" offerings...sound clips linked via SoundCloud.
2.10.12 Love Song, by Mary Carolyn Davies
2.3.12 Early One Morning (Sung/Spoken)
1.27.12 Letter from John Steinbeck to His Son, Tom
1.20.12 Letter from Ansel Adams to Cedric Wright
1.13.12 No. 26 Wants... - Flash Fiction from X-Himy & 6'minutestory
1.6.12 No. 37 Raven Caws, By X-Himy & 6'minutestory
12.30.11 Seven Seals, by D. H. Lawrence
12.23.11 Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus - New York Sun
12.16.11 Home Burial, by Robert Frost
12.9.11 No. 19 Mary Ruth - flash fiction from X-Himy
12.2.11 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce
11.25.11 The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
11.18.11 A Triumvirate of Poems on Love, Loss
11.11.11 The Velveteen Rabbit, by Margery Williams
Special Halloween Edition - Double Dose of Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven (told as the story it really is)
The Tell-Tale Heart
10.21.11 "Revolutions" by B Kunath
10.14.11 The tragedy of Virginia Woolf
Last Letter of Virginia Woolf (to her husband)
10.7.11 Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs - A Tale of the Brothers Grimm
9.30.11 - Oh for the Love of a Banned Book!
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence (w/comment from Lawrence)
9.23.11 - The Passionate Composer
Immortal Beloved #3, from Beethoven (two versions)
9.16.11 - Time for Some Microfiction...
9.09.11 - Inaugural Post
