October (Coates version)

Author(s): Florence Earle Coates

Genre(s): Poetry, Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Bryan Davis, David Lawrence, Debolee, Dave Gauer, Fshort, Snapdragon, Harvey Spurr, JemmaBlythe, Lee Ann Howlett, Lewis, Leonard Wilson, Ravenotation, Sandra Luna

Number of Chapters: 13

Length: 12 minutes

Language: English

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011.

Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. Many of her poems were set to music by composers such as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (Amy Cheney Beach), Clayton Johns, and Charles Gilbert Spross. In 1915, Florence was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Federation of Women's Clubs. (Summary from Wikipedia)