Rebekah Presson Mosby

Poetry Speaks Expanded
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Grammy Nominee!!

Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006)
Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) is a singular collection of poems read by the people who wrote them, from the dawn of sound recording to the current day. Over the course of four CDs and an info-packed book, it tells the story of the past 120 years of poetry in English, from Romanticism (Dylan Thomas) to Modernism (T.S. Eliot), from the Harlem Renaissance (Langston Hughes) to Black Arts (Amiri Baraka), from rhyme and meter (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) to free verse (Adrienne Rich), and beyond. Equally important, it allows listeners to understand exactly how the poets intended their poems to be read aloud. Poetry On Record is the most comprehensive collection of its kind and is a must-have for any fan of poetry, or for anyone who wants an expertly chosen overview as a starting point.

Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath
Audiofile Earphones Award
The distinction between book and audiobook vanishes in this fine compilation of readings by 42 nineteenth-and twentieth-century poets, narrated by CBS newscaster Charles Osgood, and accompanied by a biography, text of the poems read and additional poems by each poet, and a critical essay by a noted living poet.

Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work
Audie Award winner for poetry
"I enjoyed this set for many reasons. It is filled with the pictures, portraits and prose of, about, and from the poets featured inside. When listening to the voices of Langston Hughes, W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen--the list goes on--it is amazing to hear the clarity, consciousness, power and range of emotions in their distinctive voices. Some of the pieces date as early as the 1930's (ie: 'The Creation' by James Weldon Johnson) and that in itself is pure history.

"There are 38 selections on the first disc and 37 selections on the second, with the most current pieces being recorded in the late 90s (Tracie Morris, Saul Williams, Nikki Giovanni, etc). If you are a lover of spoken word and cherish the story telling, teaching and emotions it invokes, this is the collection for you. Youth of today need to take the time to learn where rap artists get their "voice" and spirit from, and I'm not talking about the mainstream songs plastered on tv and spit out of the radio these days. Take a listen to Public Enemy's 'Black Steel In the Hour of Chaos' (track 34, second disc).

"Spoken word is where it all began and the ancestors of this art continue to move and 'speak' through us today. Peace. CLB."

In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry
Audiofile Earphones Award
122 poems read by 88 poets on four compact discs.
“If you can only afford one (compilation of poets reading their work), this is it.”