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The Classical Figures Poetry Reading – Video

The Society
June 26, 2022
Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
. https://youtu.be/DIhS6QTHh90 . Hosted by British poet James Sale and held by the Society of Classical Poets, the theme of this reading is classical figures in the broad sense. The 100 Days of Dante Poetry...

‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Reading by S.A. Todd

The Society
May 14, 2022
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
6 Comments
. 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 Creative Commons Attribution-Share...

Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading Video Now Available

The Society
May 5, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
. A recording of our Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading in December has just been made available. Thank you again to the host, James Sale, and all of the poets and...

A Reading of ‘The New Colossus’ by Emma Lazarus

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April 10, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
7 Comments
    . https://youtu.be/PguXX2PRzvI . CREDITS Poetry: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) Voice-Over: Katy Mantyk Photos/Footage: “Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World” by Edward Moran, 1886...

A Valentine from Geoffrey Chaucer, Margaret Coats, and James A. Tweedie

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February 14, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Readings, Rondel, Translation, Video
21 Comments
.   https://youtu.be/3XWcnISYGSE . Rondel for Saint Valentine's Day by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1340–1400) | modernized in the original lyric form by Margaret Coats Now welcome, springtime, with your gentle...

A Poem on Life: ‘Wondrous Us’ by Alan Nordstrom (Reading)

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January 10, 2022
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
4 Comments
. 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 Tree” by...

A Holiday Poem Reflecting on Slave Labor in Communist China

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December 31, 2021
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video
17 Comments
. 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

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December 30, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
8 Comments
. 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 Mönche bei der...

‘A Wretch Like Me’: a Christmas poem by Joe Tessitore, set to music by Jack DesBois

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December 25, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Video
10 Comments
. https://youtu.be/fx3NidSVFKk . A Wretch Like Me by Joe Tessitore To miss the mark, to lose my way,To choose the dark, on Christmas Day.No star I see, no Virgin Birth,No joy for me, no peace on earth. But...

‘There Was a Free Nation That Swallowed a Lie,’ Nursery Rhyme Sung by Jack DesBois

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December 12, 2021
Beauty, Covid-19, Humor, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics, Video
13 Comments
. There Was a Free Nation That Swallowed a Lie sung to the tune of "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" . https://youtu.be/luLcKkCHWFo There was a free nation that swallowed a lie. I don’t know why...

‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost: Reading by S.A. Todd

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December 4, 2021
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
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. 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 Commons...

Video Poem for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: ‘Sinister Symbols’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 28, 2021
Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video
6 Comments
. 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 Commons License CC BY-NC...

A Reading of ‘Endless Bloom’ by Angel L. Villanueva

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October 17, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings, Video
15 Comments
. 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...

‘Why Freedom Had to Die’: A Song by Jack DesBois

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October 6, 2021
Covid-19, Humor, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics, Video
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. https://youtu.be/ErwnJkA4G68 inspired by a T-shirt at a Boston freedom rally You may be wondering why Freedom had to die. You may be wondering why Freedom had to die. If you were wondering why Freedom had...

A Vaccine Mandate Protest Song by Jack DesBois

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August 30, 2021
Covid-19, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics, Video
91 Comments
. Waking Up (Freedom Doesn't Come in a Can) A Protest Song Written and Performed by Jack DesBois I was lying in my bed, Waiting for the day to start, Waiting for the sun to get me on my way, And I...

SCP Spring 2021 Poetry Reading Videos

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May 23, 2021
Poetry, Readings, Video
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‘Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals’ by Margaret Coats

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November 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video
23 Comments
  The Shisendō is a hideaway villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, created by poet and calligrapher Jōzan Ishikawa (1583–1672) as a place where he could read and write classical Chinese poetry...

Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session II)

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July 28, 2020
Children's, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
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All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are poems from Session II....
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Documentary on Pandemic Features The Iliad and SCP Member

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July 12, 2020
Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video
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A Poem in Tribute to Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020), by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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June 18, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Video
41 Comments
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZUryvFffTQ   Some Sunny Day A tribute to Dame Vera Lynn who died today, June 18, 2020 (aged 103). She was the British Forces' Sweetheart who sang to the...

Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session I)

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June 17, 2020
From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are poems from Session I. Session II readings are...

A Poem for the George Floyd Riots: ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats

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May 31, 2020
Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  Video and reading by Rob...

Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced

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May 13, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video
2 Comments
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 pain and lies. If communists of China win, The...

A Reading of “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils)” by William Wordsworth

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May 10, 2020
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate William Wordsworth (1770-1850) read by the President of...

‘Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Christmas Editition’ by Studio C

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February 19, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Readings, The Raven, Video
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A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
November 5, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings, Video, Villanelle
originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers best in the wide, open air. Behold! The noon-tide waxes not...

How NOT to Hate Shakespeare: TED Talk by Rob Crisell

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October 13, 2019
Culture, For Educators, Poetry, Shakespeare, Video
2 Comments
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Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s Sonnet 5 Inspires the World of Pop (Video)

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September 9, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
Originally published here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM — July 27, 2019 — Sonnet 5, a marriage poem from MacKenzie’s Sonnets for Christ the King, has inspired award-winning producer, composer, and vocalist D.G. Hall...

Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video)

The Society
September 4, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Video
9 Comments
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SCP Symposium Readings (Videos): Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Adam Sedia, Michael C. Maibach

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August 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
1 Comment
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On the 200th Anniversary of John Keats’ Odes (A Video Essay by Daniel Leach)

The Society
May 2, 2019
Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
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 may cease to be __Before my pen has...

Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud

The Society
March 11, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in today. The irrationality and baseness of slam poetry has given way to experimental poetry that doesn't...

‘Listening to the Lark’ by Daniel Magdalen (with Video)

The Society
January 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video
22 Comments
On Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a romance for violin and orchestra inspired by George Meredith’s poem of the same title (see both below). Past years of smoke and pain, a tune in ether...

‘SonnetVision 27’ (Video) by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
June 21, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
9 Comments
Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ the King to his fellow poets and readers of the Society of Classical Poets, in gratitude...

Video: A Reading of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

The Society
June 14, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Shakespeare, Video
A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...

‘Canto 1’ by James Sale (with Video)

The Society
April 10, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Terza Rima, Video
71 Comments
Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style - and using the terza rima - of Dante. His aim is to create a contemporary epic of heaven and...

‘Swallows’ by Leo Yankevich (with Video)

The Society
February 13, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
8 Comments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjc_6R0ang8&feature=youtu.be   It was once thought that swallows wintered on the moon, or morphed into field mice beneath the autumn swoon of clouds, or...

‘A December Wish’ by Leo Yankevich (with Audio)

The Society
December 23, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  https://youtu.be/dVnGlUaitiY   You hear the sound of carols from afar. Bright bulbs and tinsel, cinnamon and cloves. Beyond a hill of snow you see a star. Here you can look at stacks...

Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video by Robert Florczak)

The Society
April 29, 2016
Art, Essays, Video
11 Comments
See full Epoch Times article on Robert...




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