Welcome back to another Vineland Poetry Friday on this cloudy Thursday afternoon. We are returning to post our last poem in celebration for National Poetry Month! Todays poem is Louisa May Alcott's "Fairy Song," read by staff member Anna Fox. To read this poem and others, please check out The Poems of Louisa May Alcott. From all of us at Vineland, we would like to humbly thank all our listeners. We appreciate that you visit us and listen to all our great poetry! We hope to make Vineland Poetry Friday sucessful enough to have it come back more often and perhaps another live event next year. We hope you enjoy this poem and scroll back through our previous favorites for another listen! Thanks again and we hope to see you again sometime real soon!

Welcome back to another special month of Vineland Poetry Friday! We are celebrating National Poetry Month by posting poems during the weeks of April. Todays poem is actually a Shakespearean Sonnet read by staff member Amy Silva. She will be reading sonnet number 116 titled, "Let Me Not To The Marriage of True Minds." To read this sonnet as well as Shakespeare's other works, check out The Sonnets and Narrative Poems: The Complete Nondramatic Poetry. Thanks again for listening! We're already seeing a jump in downloads, so keep listening!!  

Welcome back to a brand new Vineland Poetry Friday on this crisp Wednesday afternoon. We've decided to celebrate National Poetry Month by posting a poem each week in April! Can you believe that it's been two years since we've started Vineland Poetry Friday and a year since our live event? We are pleased to start off our celebration by having staff member Renee Gimelli reading Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach." Thanks Renee! To read this poem along with his other great works, check out The Poems of Matthew Arnold.  We hope you guys are still listening and coming back to check with us. We are happy to record and post these poems for your (as well as our) enjoyment! Thank you all again for listening and we hope to see you return next week for another great poem!

Welcome back to a very special holiday edition of Vineland Poetry Friday. We decided to come back from hiatus yet again to revisit our favorite Christmas poem. Both staff members Amy Silva and Anna Fox are back, reading a duet version of Clement Moore's "'Twas The Night Before Christmas." Even though there are numerous copies of the book in our catalog, we recommend checking out 'Twas The Night Before Christmas: A Visit From St. Nicholas with classic 1912 illustrations from Jessie Willcox Smith. We hope you enjoy this classic holiday poem and hope it gives you -- If only alittle -- Christmas spirit. Vineland staff would also like to take this moment to wish all of our listeners, as well as their family and friends, a very happy, healthy, and Merry Christmas along with the very best wishes for the new year! Thanks again for listening!

Welcome back to Vineland Poetry Friday on this special Halloween Monday. Unfortunately, we are still on hiatus, but we thought that we would revisit our very special poem for this spooky holiday. Once again, our Halloween poem for today is Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," read by staff member Amy Silva. To read this poem, among other spine-tingling tales, please check out "The Raven & Other Poems and Tales." Thank you again for listening and thank you to those who keep coming back during our break. We appreciate you listening and hope that we can spread the word and get even more listeners! Thank you again for listening and hope to see you back here in the future.  

Welcome again to Vineland Poetry Friday on this sunny Saturday Morning. We regret to inform you that this will be our last Vineland Poetry Friday Podcast. The time and energy put into the podcast has become a bit overwhelming and we are afraid that we will no longer be able to continue with the new SJPL schedule changes. We are very proud of our 50 plus collection of poems that has spanned over a year and even spawned a live reading event. Our first poem in April 2010 was by Lewis Carroll, so we only saw it fitting to end with him as well. Todays poem is Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and The Carpenter" from Alice in Wonderland, read by staff members Anna Fox and Chikezie Nkwuo. To read this poem, as well as the rest of this delightful story, please check out Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass.  

Even though the future of Vineland Poetry Friday is uncertain and there is a possibility of it returning, for now we are going on hiatus. We would like to take this opprotunity to thank everyone who has listened to our poems as well as those who attended our live reading in April. We hope that this will not be the end of visitors and listeners of this site and we encourage anyone to keep returning to listen to our large accumulation of recorded poetry. We have a collection of classics, holiday favorites, and inspiring poetry for everyday life. Again, on behalf of the Vineland Staff, we would like to thank you for listening.

Welcome back to another Vineland Poetry Friday on this strangely rainy Saturday afternoon in June. Today we have staff memeber Amy Silva reading "Farewells" by Abram Joseph Ryan. To read this poem, among others, please check out Selected Poems of Father Ryan. We hope you enjoy this poem and come back next week for another great Vineland Poetry Friday Podcast!

It's a beautiful Friday afternoon and that means another Vineland Poetry Friday podcast! Today's poem comes from staff member Anna Fox, who will be reading Emily Bronte's "Moonlight, Summer Moonlight." To read this poem, along with others, please check out a copy of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Bronte. We hope you enjoy this poem and come back next week for another great Vineland Poetry Friday podcast! Thanks again for listening!

Welcome back to another Vineland Poetry Friday on this beautiful Saturday morning. Today's poem is "Valentine To The Girl In Black" by Ellis Parker Butler, read by staff member Chikezie Nkwuo. Unfortunately, we don't have any of his poetry in our SJPL catalog, but you can read his poems on Public Domain Poetry - Ellis Parker Butler. We hope you enjoy this poem and come back next week for another great poem at Vineland Poetry Friday podcast!  

It's another beautiful Friday afternoon, which means another amazing poem on our Vineland Poetry Friday podcast! Thanks for coming back! Today's poem is Sara Teasdale's "February Twilight," ready by staff member Amy Silva. To read this poem, with others, check out Colleted Poems of Sara Teasdale. Thank you for listening and we hope to see you here again next week for another great poem and another Vineland Poetry Friday podcast!