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                poetry for the ear in the tradition of blind Homer
   A FREE INTERNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE of LYRICAL AUDIO POETRY in MODERN ENGLISH:  1,001+ POEMS
      by 179 POETS HEARD in 1,854,938 HITS in the past year in 91 COUNTRIES on ALL CONTINENTS (Webalizer STATS)
                       WALTER RUFUS EAGLES, Poet, Reader, Editor & Webmaster   EDITORIAL STATEMENT 

  ANTHOLOGY of LYRICAL AUDIO POETRY in MODERN ENGLISH 
  POEMA AD LIBITUM Current fortnight
  FIVE MOST POPULAR READINGS of the MONTH updated weekly during the academic year Sept - June
  CUMULATIVE MOST POPULAR READINGS updated quarterly during the academic year Sept - June
  POET SLIDESHOW  115 poets on this site (a guessing-game; no names) 
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On your right, your reader, Walter, with Mahra (the reader's Siamese assistant)
in 2003: double portrait by Marilu Eagles, your reader's wife of 43 years

CURRENT EVENTS:   Click on Current Poems below to hear newly-recorded poems, including three Shakespeare sonnets, "How can my Muse want subject to invent", "No more be grieved at that which thou hast done" and '"'Why didst thou promise such a  beauteous day", A special recording of two war sonnets by the American poet, Allan Seeger [1888-1916]: then a trio, and a sestet, of sonnets by Shakespeare;  a  major poem by Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi's";  Muriel Stuart: "The Seed-Shop"; Thomas Hardy: " I Said to Love";  Edwin Arlington Robinson: " A Happy Man"; Shakespeare's sonnet. "When I do count the clock that tells the time";  Edward Thomas's poem. "Like the Touch of Rain"; Shakespeare's sonnet, "When I consider everything that grows"; Ambrose Bierce's obscure little poem, "Weather"; and Robert Frost's poem, "The Wood-Pile" and other selections by a variety of poets.