CPL: ChatGPT Poetry Quiz, Lillian-Yvonne Betram, Interview with James A. Tweedie, and More
. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 4: Poetry in the Age of AI If you enjoy this video,...
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CPL: Reading of FoFG Poetry Competition Winner, Interview with James Sale, and More
. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 3: Embrace the Epic, Not the Opaque If you enjoy this video,...
A Poem on Target’s Transgender Clothing for Youth, and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant
. Target If you’re too young to take a marriage vow, Stuck at an awkward age that won’t allow A dizzy dose...
‘In a Soviet Gulag’ by Evan Mantyk: Read by Andrew Benson Brown
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILvvmtpOaOg
CPL: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Sally Cook, Interview with Susan Jarvis Bryant, Thomas Gray, and More
. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 2: Fake Poets and Hollow Prestige . Audio version available here:...
‘Byron Swims the Hellespont’ by Joseph S. Salemi: A Reading by Andrew Benson Brown
. If you enjoy this video from Andrew Benson Brown's Classical Poets Live, please click on "Watch on YouTube" and...
Classical Poets Live (CPL) with Andrew Benson Brown – Episode 1: Why Classical Poetry?
. This inaugural episode features an interview with Society of Classical Poets' co-founder and editor Evan Mantyk who talks about...
Sonnet XVIII of the Sacred Rhymes by Lope de Vega, Translated by Martin Rizley
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDSWs61Ye0E . Sonnet XVIII of the Sacred Rhymes by Lope de Vega (1562-1635) translated by Martin Rizley What have...
The Classical Figures Poetry Reading – Video
. https://youtu.be/DIhS6QTHh90 . Hosted by British poet James Sale and held by the Society of Classical Poets, the theme of...
‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Reading by S.A. Todd
. https://youtu.be/6gDs63kyLhc . CREDITS Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Voice-Over: S.A. Todd Photos/Footage: Photo of Pharaoh by ArchaiOptix, licensed under...
Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading Video Now Available
. A recording of our Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading in December has just been made available. Thank you...
A Reading of ‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus
. https://youtu.be/PguXX2PRzvI . CREDITS Poetry: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) Voice-Over: Katy Mantyk Photos/Footage: “Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening...
A Valentine from Geoffrey Chaucer, Margaret Coats, and James A. Tweedie
. https://youtu.be/3XWcnISYGSE . Rondel for Saint Valentine's Day by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400) | modernized in the original lyric form...
A Poem on Life: ‘Wondrous Us’ by Alan Nordstrom (Reading)
. https://youtu.be/RMcLVFNbueY . Complete poem text here. CREDITSPoetry: Alan Nordstrom (1939-)Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical PoetsVoice-Over: Evan MantykPhotos/Footage:“Milky Way with...
A Holiday Poem Reflecting on Slave Labor in Communist China
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HH4MeT9Mo . Read the complete poem here: https://classicalpoets.org/2013/12/12/two-psalms/#/ CREDITS Poetry: Evan Mantyk (b. 1982) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical...
‘Auld Lang Syne’ by Robert Burns: Poem Reading for New Year’s Day by S.A. Todd
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGcYTF8pHk . CREDITS Poetry: Robert Burns (1759-1796) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical Poets Voice-Over: S.A. Todd Photos/Footage: (1) "Drei...
‘A Wretch Like Me’: a Christmas poem by Joe Tessitore, set to music by Jack DesBois
. https://youtu.be/fx3NidSVFKk . A Wretch Like Me by Joe Tessitore To miss the mark, to lose my way,To choose the...
‘There Was a Free Nation That Swallowed a Lie,’ Nursery Rhyme Sung by Jack DesBois
. There Was a Free Nation That Swallowed a Lie sung to the tune of "There Was an Old Lady...
‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost: Reading by S.A. Todd
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCmLSOndstY . CREDITSPoetry: Robert FrostAudio/Visual Work: Society of Classical PoetsVoice-Over: S.A. ToddPhoto: "Yellow Forest" by Eflon (used under creative...
Video Poem for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: ‘Sinister Symbols’ by James A. Tweedie
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBbaZHU3qk . Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical Poets Voice-Over: Evan Mantyk Photo: Hans Permana, “Meal time!” (used under creative...
A Reading of ‘Endless Bloom’ by Angel L. Villanueva
. https://youtu.be/eRp7_tqfxTs On Rumble here: https://rumble.com/vnvehl-a-poem-for-aging-beauties-endless-bloom-society-of-classical-poets.html?mref=iosaf&mc=6b8az Poet: Angel L. Villanueva of Massachusetts Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical Poets Voice-Over: Evan...
‘Why Freedom Had to Die’: A Song by Jack DesBois
. https://youtu.be/ErwnJkA4G68 inspired by a T-shirt at a Boston freedom rally You may be wondering why Freedom had to die....
A Vaccine Mandate Protest Song by Jack DesBois
. Waking Up (Freedom Doesn't Come in a Can) A Protest Song Written and Performed by Jack DesBois I was...
SCP Spring 2021 Poetry Reading Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goCspjRZxic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0r7BFVRqY0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1vX_ecpLxs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWmGAoWQIzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPTpa7gjkU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXI0U-5OPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmBx9zTV2XU
‘Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals’ by Margaret Coats
The Shisendō is a hideaway villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, created by poet and calligrapher Jōzan...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session II)
All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was...
Documentary on Pandemic Features The Iliad and SCP Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=21&v=kRrLsMIaDcM
A Poem in Tribute to Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020), by Susan Jarvis Bryant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZUryvFffTQ Some Sunny Day A tribute to Dame Vera Lynn who died today, June 18, 2020 (aged 103)....
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session I)
All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was...
A Poem for the George Floyd Riots: ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats
Video and reading by Rob Crisell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEnIR5ziHI&t=8s&fbclid=IwAR1pAlRNwLHVVh1LP0RlZIDMEJslUOhD1MZqoCPCHcvxHQtFK9EwlF8sJt8
Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced
FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred years of...
A Reading of “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils)” by William Wordsworth
https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate...
‘Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Christmas Editition’ by Studio C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ6QuvFS068
A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie
originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star...
How NOT to Hate Shakespeare: TED Talk by Rob Crisell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh3gMcOUFao
Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s Sonnet 5 Inspires the World of Pop (Video)
Originally published here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM — July 27, 2019 — Sonnet 5, a marriage poem from MacKenzie’s Sonnets for Christ...
Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video)
https://youtu.be/RFqk98nHuA0
SCP Symposium Readings (Videos): Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Adam Sedia, Michael C. Maibach
https://youtu.be/Mgo1YAUIglg https://youtu.be/zhbwPHKXU-c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5XvAB3keVo&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/bFQnvh-pJ4Q
On the 200th Anniversary of John Keats’ Odes (A Video Essay by Daniel Leach)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats When I have fears that I...
Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud
The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in...
In the first poem, I think the author is onto something. Nature (Creation) is a balm for every trouble; it…
And the aid of rarer, more valuable, more desirable, lastingly iconic art. Confirmed antidote to toxins too common.
One thing I learned recently from an internet study, as long as an elderly person showers or bathes, they do…
Brian, Sowell's remark about "the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with…
Thanks so much, Theresa! It seems to me that Francis knew (and maintained) an immediate, personal vision of the truth…
