 Click here to listen to this story on the Kaidankai podcast. Spoon River Anthology is a series of poetic stories about the lives of ordinary people as told by their ghosts. There's love and hate, betrayal and loyalty, comedy and tragedy. The characters get to tell their versions of murder, rape, revenge, accidents, and all the seedy sides of life as well as acts of heroism and lofty rhetoric meant to inspire. Spoon River Anthology was beloved from the moment it was published. Ezra Pound said, "At last! At last America has discovered a poet." Carl Sandburg was equally impressed: "Once in a while a man comes along who writes a book that has his own heart-beats in it. The people whose faces look out from the pages of the book are the people of life itself, each trait of them as plain or as mysterious as in the old home valley where the writer came from. Such a writer and book are realized here." Read the poems highlighted in today's podcast and all the poems in the anthology at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1280 Today's readers are: Ollie McGee read by Eucharia Donnery Amanda Barker read by Luisa Piemontese Chase Henry & Judge Somers read by Charles Kowalski Petit the Poet read by Snigdha Agrawal Benjamin Pantier & Andy the Nightwatch ready by Andi Brooks Minerva read by Sharlene Oyagi Indignation Jones read by Timothy Gould Doctor Meyers read by Joshua St. Clair Mrs. Meyers read by Jill Trade Knowlt Hoheimer read by Herve Suys Percy Bysshe Shelley read by Enne Tesse Julia Miller read by Ellen Fryer Zenas Witt read by Taishin Frances Matsuzaki Margaret Fuller Slack read by Rebecca Otowa Ace Shaw read by Bruno Vannieu Lois Spears read by Lily Thukral The Hill, Hod Putt, Cassius Hueffer, Serepta Mason, Daisy Fraser, Mrs. Benjamin Pantier, Butch Weldy, Lydia Puckett, Sarah Brown and Justice Arnett read by Linda Gould Published to the Kaidankai on April 13,, 2022.
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