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November 6, 2024
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Ellen Wheeler Wilcox
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You may not think you know this poet, but she's the author of a number of memorable lines. This month, read one of her poems out loud to improve your public speaking.
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October 4, 2024
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Shakespeare's Witches
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Serious, spooky, or silly - say these famous lines out loud to improve your cadence and stretch your expressiveness.
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September 4, 2024
Poem to Read Aloud: Thank you, Mr. Chesterton
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From the witty writer who invented detective Father Brown, a poem you can read out loud to improve your public speaking.
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August 1, 2024
Poem to Read Aloud: 'Summer, do your worst!'
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Our founder believed reading poetry out loud was a terrific way to improve your public speaking. This month, try "August" by Dorothy Parker.
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July 2, 2024
Poem to Read Aloud: Lines to Sharpen Your Diction
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One of America's most popular poets, James Whitcomb Riley frequently wrote in the lisping dialect he associated with children. Yet, this month, we look to him for a poem that gives your diction a workout.
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June 4, 2024
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Sunburnt Beauty
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Reading poems out loud can help you stretch your vocal range. Here's one by Australian poet Dorothea Mackellar that celebrates our love for the imperfect places we call home.
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May 6, 2024
Poem to Read Aloud: Give voice to 'May's luxuriant pride'
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Reading poems out loud can improve your public speaking. Make the most of it this month with a sonnet from the Swan of Lichfield.
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April 2, 2024
Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: April Love
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From the poet who gave us "days of wine and roses" and the first writer to use the word "soccer," some lines you can read aloud to improve your public speaking.
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March 4, 2024
Spring Forward with a Poem to Help Your Public Speaking
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Send a shout out to spring and improve you public speaking, with this poem by Marion Strobel to read aloud.
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February 5, 2024
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Byron's Walk in Beauty
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Delivering poetry aloud will enhance your public speaking. This month, try some romantic lines from the controversial star of England's Romantic movement.
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January 2, 2024
Poetry to Improve Your Public Speaking: Lady Speyer's Enigma
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A concert violinist turned poet, Leonora Speyer captivated audiences and captured the Pulitzer Prize. Read her lines out loud to improve your speaking.
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December 3, 2023
Poem to Read Aloud: The Christmas Carol Challenge
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The tune may be burned into your holiday brain, but finding another way to deliver the lines can improve your public speaking. We provide "Good King Wenceslas" for you to read out loud.
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November 3, 2023
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Rediscovering a Star
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Writing and delivering poems about her Native heritage made E. Penelope Johnson a popular performer. Learn more about the poet and use her lines to improve your delivery, too.
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October 2, 2023
A Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: October's Poet of Love & Fame
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While we don't know much about popular songwriter and poet Fannie Isabelle Sherrick, we do know reading her lines aloud can help a speaker out!
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September 5, 2023
Poem to Read Aloud: Helen Hunt Jackson Celebrates September
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Celebrate September with a perfect poem for polishing your diction and learn more about the fascinating woman who wrote it.
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August 3, 2023
Poetry to Improve Your Public Speaking: A Puritan Poet's Love Poem
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When is a love poem an act of defiance? When a woman in Puritan New England dares to write it. Read these familiar lines by Anne Bradstreet out loud: You can enhance your phrasing and marvel at her boldness in putting them down.
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July 3, 2023
Poem to Read Aloud: Dorothy Parker and the Well-Placed Pause
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Why of course an acclaimed wit would know how to deploy the punch of a well-timed pause. Practice placing yours by reading some lines from Dorothy Parker out loud.
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June 1, 2023
Limericks to Help Your Public Speaking: Lear for comic timing
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Reading poetry out loud is a great way to enhance your presentation skills. See how Edward Lear makes it a lot of fun, too.
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May 1, 2023
Poem to Read Aloud: Philosophy by the Couplet
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Isabella Whitney defied convention and became the first Englishwoman to write and publish secular poems. So don't be a noddy! Read her lines this month, improve you phrasing--and have a bit of fun.
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April 3, 2023
Wordsworth and Nature: A poem to read aloud
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The poet associated with Romantic literature, a love of nature, and England's Lake District has inspired Taylor Swift. This month, let him inspire your public speaking, too!
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March 6, 2023
A Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: Dialogue and Diction
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Sara Teasdale was the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This month, read her lines aloud to experiment with expressive dialogue - and to give your diction a workout.
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February 6, 2023
Poem to Read Aloud: Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Reading poems out loud can improve your public speaking. This month, find poetry by a key influencer of the Harlem Renaissance.
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January 2, 2023
Poems to Read Aloud: Christina Rossetti
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Learn more about the gifted poet Christina Rossetti and read her lines out loud to improve your phrasing and timing.
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December 2, 2022
Poem to Read Aloud: The Seductive Christmas Wreath
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Seems mistletoe isn't the only holiday greenery to inspire the romantic imagination. Celebrate the wreath - and improve your public speaking with this poem to read aloud.
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November 1, 2022
Poetry to help your public speaking: Ruth Muskrat Bronson
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This writer, teacher, speaker, and national leader used her voice to advocate for Native Americans. Read one of her poems out loud to inspire your public speaking.
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October 3, 2022
Poem to Read Aloud: Enhance Your Storytelling Skills
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This popular children's verse provides a great vehicle for developing more animation in your delivery. This month, try reading aloud about the sailors in the wooden shoe.
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September 1, 2022
Poetry to help your public speaking: Meet Mary Viola Wilds
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Reading poems out loud can help you enhance your delivery. Learn more about this humble and inspiring poet and give her lines a try.
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August 2, 2022
Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: An August night with Ms. Millay
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Reading poems out loud is a great way to improve your vocal delivery. This month, find some lines from Edna St. Vincent Millay to help you savor the last days of summer.
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July 3, 2022
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Inflection and Emily Dickinson
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Questions can be a great tool when presenting, a way to get your audience thinking. Here's a poem to help you practice the many ways you can pose one.
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June 2, 2022
A Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: Hart Crane
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Our founder believed reading poetry out loud improved your public speaking. This month, we provide a poem by Hart Crane.
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May 2, 2022
Poetry to Improve Your Public Speaking: Delight in Disorder
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Seize the day, gather the darling buds of May and improve your public speaking with some irreverent help from the poet Robert Herrick.
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April 1, 2022
A Peach of a Poem to Help Your Public Speaking
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Reading poetry aloud improves your phrasing and inflection. How is this poem from D.H. Lawrence a great one for practicing the rhetorical question?
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March 1, 2022
Poem to Read Aloud: Hardy's 'Before Marching'
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Reading poetry out loud can help you expand your range as a speaker. This month, we provide a contemplative poem by Thomas Hardy.
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February 3, 2022
Poem to Read Aloud: Anne Spencer's Carnival
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Reading poems out loud improves public speaking. Here's one by Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer.
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January 1, 2022
Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: 'Hope' for a New Year
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Reading poems out loud can help you make your vocal delivery more dramatic. Here's a sonnet from a poet whose life and work inspired Jane Austen and Charles Dickens--with drama to spare.
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December 1, 2021
Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: 'Mistletoe'
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Here's a Walter de la Mare poem full of mistletoe and fairies that you can read aloud to improve your public speaking. (We cannot say how it will affect your odds of getting a holiday peck.)
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November 3, 2021
Poems to Read Aloud: Browning's Duchess
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Reading Robert Browning's dramatic monologues out loud can help you find greater range in your vocal delivery. Here's a favorite, plus the story of the duchess who inspired the poem.
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October 2, 2021
Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poem to read aloud
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Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry inspired Maya Angelou (and the title of her autobiography). Here's his light-hearted poem about autumn to inspire your public speaking.
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September 5, 2021
Poem to Read Aloud: A Muse for Working People
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Elizabeth Hands, who worked as a domestic servant, challenged assumptions with her poetry and witty insights. Read one of her poems out loud to improve your public speaking!
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August 3, 2021
Poem to Read Aloud: Casey at the Bat
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Comic timing, drama, gestures, and a sneer that curls the lip: Improve your public speaking in every department by reading baseball's favorite poem out loud.
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July 5, 2021
Poem to Read Aloud: Jean Toomer's 'Storm Ending'
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Trapped somewhere by a summer thunderstorm? Read this poem out loud, enjoy the beauty, and improve your public speaking.
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June 1, 2021
Poem to Read Aloud: Louise Bogan
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Intense emotion in the confines of formal poetry? Louise Bogan's work is a great tool to help speakers work on timing and cadence, so here's a poem by the United States' first female poet laureate for you to read out loud.
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May 3, 2021
Poems to Read Aloud: From The Poet-Orator-Park Ranger
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Reading poems out loud can improve your presentations. Here's a poem from an award-winning public speaker and wildlife guide, whose life was as interesting as his verse...
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April 1, 2021
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: The Sweet Spring of Thomas Nashe
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Put some spring in your diction with lines from an Elizabethan troublemaker who appears to have known how to have a little fun...
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March 2, 2021
Poems to Help your Public Speaking: Emily Dickinson welcomes March
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While a popular new TV series invites you to reimagine America's favorite reclusive poet, we invite you to improve your public speaking with these sassy lines. Watch out, April!
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February 4, 2021
Poems to Read Aloud: A 19th Century Celebrity and Her Secrets
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The sort of colorful character you'd expect to find in "Bridgerton," the celebrated poet L.E.L. provides a few jaded lines about love that can help your public speaking.
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January 22, 2021
How Poetry Helped Amanda Gorman Find Her Speaking Voice
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We've long said poetry can help your public speaking. Here's how inauguration poet Amanda Gorman says it helped hers...
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January 5, 2021
Poems to Read Aloud: Benjamin Franklin's January
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Did Ben Franklin know that reading poems out loud could improve public speaking? Did you know that Benjamin Franklin wrote poetry? Get 2021 started with his lines for the first month of the year...
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December 2, 2020
Poems to Read Aloud: Burns and Auld Lang Syne
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Contemplating a New Year's Eve on Zoom? Make this the year you wow them by knowing all the words to "Auld Lang Syne"--and as you practice aloud, you'll give your public speaking a boost.
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November 2, 2020
Reading Marianne Moore to Improve Your Public Speaking
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Here's an enjoyable way to work on phrasing and timing: Read this poem by Marianne Moore out loud and see if you can capture the elusiveness of "The Jelly-fish."
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October 4, 2020
Sandburg's Jack-O-Lantern: A poem to read aloud
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Reading poetry out loud can improve your public speaking. Here's one by Carl Sandburg that's perfectly suited for the decorative gourd season...
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September 1, 2020
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Robinson Jeffers
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Reading poems out loud can help you explore and expand your public speaking delivery style. This month, try "The Stars Go Over a Lonely Ocean" by Robinson Jeffers.
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August 2, 2020
Nonsense verse to make a point: Reading Sukumar Ray
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A king who wants to frame his chocolates? A wack autocrat whacking pumpkins with a bat? A read aloud from poet Sukumar Ray can improve your public speaking--and may be just what we need right now...
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July 2, 2020
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Bennett and Dumas
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We're inspired this month by the poems of Gwendolyn Bennett AND the real-life swashbuckler who inspired Alexandre Dumas. Here's a poem to read aloud...
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June 4, 2020
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Georgia Douglas Johnson
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Saturday Salons at her home in Washington D.C. helped her hone her voice and brought together leading artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Read a poem aloud by Georgia Douglas Johnson...
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May 4, 2020
Poem to Read Aloud: A Heap O' Livin'
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Because we've all been at home a lot lately, here's a poem from Edgar Allen Guest to read aloud...one that will help you see why droppin' the endin' of your words ain't somethin' you oughta be doin' in your public speakin'...
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April 2, 2020
Poem to Read Aloud: A Shakespeare Sonnet for your Quarantine
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Not feeling up to writing your "King Lear" during the coronavirus quarantine? How about a more modest goal: Read 14 lines aloud and improve your public speaking instead...
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March 23, 2020
Our Expert Helps: Homeschool with a public speaking twist
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New to the school-at-home thing? Want some help? Here are some ways to have more fun, courtesy of Buckley faculty Jana Daley--a homeschool pro, who's also trained young debate champs.
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March 2, 2020
Poem to Read Aloud: Song of the Moon
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Her poems inspired the Harlem Renaissance. They can also inspire your public speaking. Here's one by Priscilla Jane Thompson...
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February 3, 2020
Love & Friendship: A Poem to Help Your Public Speaking
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Reading this one aloud will give your diction and enunciation a boost. It might also improve your friendships!
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January 2, 2020
Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: The Darkling Thrush
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Read this well-known poem out loud and you can start the new year by giving your enunciation a workout...
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December 2, 2019
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: An e.e. cummings christmas
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Reading poetry out loud can help improve your timing, phrasing and expressiveness when presenting. Here's a poem to accomplish all that AND help you get the season started...
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November 1, 2019
A Poem to Read Aloud: McKay's 'Coming North'
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Poet, novelist, and leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Jamaican-born Claude McKay is the source for our poem this month. Read his work out loud to improve your public speaking...
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October 2, 2019
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Frost's Two Roads
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Was Robert Frost just pulling our leg with his famous poem about walking through autumn woods and making choices? No doubt, reading it aloud can help your public speaking while you contemplate...
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September 2, 2019
Poems to Read Aloud: Of storms and trees
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Tracking Hurricane Dorian this week led us to poet Amelia Josephine Burr--and some poems you can read aloud to improve your public speaking.
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August 1, 2019
Poem to Read Aloud: Emily Brontë
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Though famous for giving us "Wuthering Heights," Emily Brontë also wrote 200 poems in her 30 short years. Read one of them out loud this month to improve your public speaking...
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July 1, 2019
Poem to Read Aloud: I Hear America Singing
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When you tire of hearing America shoot off its July 4th fireworks, improve your public speaking (and soothe your jangled nerves) with these lines from one of America's most influential poets.
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June 2, 2019
Poem to Read Aloud: Countee Cullen's Rendezvous
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"Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing!" Let those famous lines and others from Countee Cullen inspire your public speaking, with this month's poem to read aloud.
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May 1, 2019
A Poem to Read Aloud: This one's for the graduates
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The author of "The Jungle Book" and "Kim" is also the poet whose lines you'll hear at many a graduation ceremony. Even if you're not giving a commencement address, try reading these stanzas aloud to help your public speaking...
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April 1, 2019
Willa Cather's April poems: A Prairie Spring
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Yes, "singing and singing, out of the lips of silence," we're convinced reading poems out loud improves your public speaking. This month, verse from a writer beloved and revered for her novels...
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March 1, 2019
Poetry to Read Aloud: Grimké and 'The Kiss'
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The first African American woman to have her play produced publicly, Angelina Weld Grimké also wrote more than 170 poems, including this month's lines for you to read aloud...
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February 1, 2019
Poetry to Read Aloud: James Weldon Johnson
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Poet, civil rights leader, teacher, diplomat - the incredible James Weldon Johnson even won a prize for oratory as a college student. This month, we offer one of his poems to help your public speaking...
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January 1, 2019
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: E.A. Robinson's Cheevy
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"Miniver cursed the commonplace/And eyed a khaki suit with loathing." Add more color to your public speaking with these lines to read aloud from Edwin Arlington Robinson...
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December 1, 2018
Poetry to Help Your Public Speaking: Joyce Kilmer
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Most famous for the poem "Trees," Joyce Kilmer did much more in his short life, including writing the poem we're featuring this month for your read aloud practice...
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November 1, 2018
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Gwendolyn Brooks
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She was a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. She's also helping you improve your presentation skills with this month's poem to read aloud...
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October 2, 2018
Poem to Read Aloud: Edgar Allen Poe
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Reading poems out loud can bring more color and drama to your public speaking. Try these lines from a master of creating that certain mood...
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September 1, 2018
A Poem to Help Your Public Speaking: September Midnight
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Like a late-night espresso to awaken even the laziest enunciation, we serve up these lines from poet Sara Teasdale to read aloud...
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August 1, 2018
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Hardy's August Midnight
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Delight Potter fans, bee enthusiasts--and improve your public speaking through attention to cadence and timing--with a little help from Thomas Hardy and this month's poem to read aloud.
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July 5, 2018
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: The Traveller-Heart
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His poems were made wildly popular by his spellbinding delivery. Who better to provide this month's poem to real aloud?
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June 4, 2018
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Diction for A June Night
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Her most famous lines are forever connected to the Statue of Liberty. This month's poem to read aloud comes from Emma Lazarus...
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May 1, 2018
Poem to Read Aloud: Edna St. Vincent Millay for May
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Reading poetry out loud is can improve your public speaking. To help your cadence and timing, try these lines from Millay, a poet also known for her dramatic performances...
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April 2, 2018
Poems to Help Your Public Speaking: Langston Hughes & April Rain
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Reading poetry out loud is one of our favorite ways to improve phrasing, timing and vocal variation. From writer Langston Hughes, some perfect lines for this month....
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March 1, 2018
Poems to Read Aloud: A Wilde Woman for March
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She was better known then as the fired-up, justice-seeking poet Speranza...and better known now as Oscar Wilde's mother. Improve your cadence and vocal projection with these lines from Lady Jane Wilde...
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February 1, 2018
How Reading Poetry Helps a Speaker: Let Us Count the Ways
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Here to help you enhance those dulcet vocal tones, just in time for Valentine's Day: Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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January 1, 2018
Public Speaking Warm-up: January
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His poems about naughty children make us laugh, but for January's read-aloud, we're going with "January."
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December 1, 2017
Read Aloud: Some Brillig Nonsense
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Relieve holiday stress and stretch your public speaking delivery--with Lewis Carroll's verse....
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November 1, 2017
November Read Aloud: Hope, Feathers & Dickinson
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She wrote more than 1,800 poems. Here's one from Emily Dickinson to read aloud.
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October 1, 2017
Better than Pumpkin Spice: October's Read Aloud
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A few lines to help you develop those all-important spooky vocal tones, just in time for Halloween...
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September 1, 2017
Poem to Read Aloud: Hopkins & Sprung Rhythm
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Glory be to God for Gerard Manley Hopkins, who produced one of our favorite poems to read aloud.
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August 1, 2017
A Poem to Read Aloud: Phillis Wheatley
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In August 1761, seven-year-old Phillis Wheatley was purchased as a slave in Boston. She became one of the most renowned poets of her time. Her "Hymn to the Evening" is this month's read aloud.
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July 1, 2017
Kid's-Eye View of Long Summer Days: July's Read-Aloud
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For your poetry practice, we offer lines from Robert Louis Stevenson that remind us of a summer week we spent leading a workshop in Anchorage, Alaska. (And we like this portrait of RLS, painted by John Singer Sargent.)
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June 1, 2017
Summer Rain: A read-aloud poem for June
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She smoked cigars, won the Pulitzer Prize, and took issue with South Carolina's "obscene" shades of magenta: Amy Lowell is the poet for this month's verse to read out loud.
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May 1, 2017
A Shakespeare Sonnet for May's Read Aloud
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"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May," writes William Shakespeare in Sonnet 18. It's our selection for your May read aloud.
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April 11, 2017
Poems in your Pockets & Verse for Every Month
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Years before there was National Poetry Month, The Buckley School was encouraging students of speaking to read poems aloud. Here's a little more about how you should and--with some help from Bill Murray--why it can even be fun.
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April 1, 2017
A Read Aloud to Make You Chuckle
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Reading poetry out loud can improve your speaking--and when the poet is Ogden Nash, it's also just plain fun. Take a whirl with one of our Nash favorites.
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March 17, 2017
An Irish Poet for March Read Alouds
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The Buckley School has long encouraged speakers to improve their speaking skills by reading poetry out loud. This month, perhaps you'd like to read this poem from Irish poet W.B. Yeats.
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