LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Prophet by D.H. Lawrence. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 21, 2024. —— This short piece is a picturesque description of society’s hesitation to accept new innovation or progress. – Summary by TriciaG

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wind by Henry Bellamann. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 14, 2024. —— Heinrich Hauer (Henry) Bellamann was an American author, a poet, and a music professor at Vassar College. One of Bellamann’s novels, Kings Row, was turned into a 1942 movie starring Ronald Reagan […]

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Part 2 of the extensive collection of all the letters which passed between Robert Browning (1812-1889) and Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett (1806-1861) in the years 1845 and 1846, which marked the beginning of their acquaintance and formation of their romantic relationship. The nearly daily exchange of letters during this period gives a minute insight into the […]

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The court ordered the bullshitter to pay 83 million dollars in damages for raping and then defaming E. Jean Carroll. I can imagine the bullshitter riding on a broomstick and a stereotype witch’s hat while saying, “I’m the victim of a witch hunt!” Speaking of which. if you are a cartoonist and you’d like to […]

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*The UN court in The Hague told Israel it must “take all measures within its power” to desist from killing Palestinians in contravention of the genocide convention, and to prevent and punish the incitement of genocide and facilitate the provision of “urgent basic services”. The court did not find Israel guilty of genocide, but seems […]

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A nationwide strike against the president, who calls himself “the madman,” shut down much of Argentina. In addition, tens of thousands protested. I wonder how many he will arrest under his new law.

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US citizens: call on the BLM to save the Gunnison sage grouse. If you have disabled the page’s JavaScript, you may get a blank response after signing. That does not mean anything is wrong; your signature has probably been sent in properly. The blank screen has text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your […]

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