Begun July 2011, the One Pause Poetry mp3 Project is a national digital resource for teachers, students, readers, and listeners. Each poet is asked to record and submit three mp3 files to the site: one poem of his or her own, one by another poet, and one poem for kids. It is our hope that this project will expand to include all schools and styles of poetry.
Tarfia Faizullah
Tarfia's poem
En Route to Bangladesh, Another Crisis of Faith
by Tarfia Faizullah
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chosen poem
Black Umbrella
by Tommye Blount
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child's poem
There Are Birds Here
by Jamaal May
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Ross White
Ross's poem
Quae Nocent Saepe Docent
by Ross White
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chosen poem
Cows Grazing at Sunrise
by William Matthews
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child's poem
The Voice You Hear When You Read Silently
by Thomas Lux
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Eric Tran
Eric's poem
My Boyfriend, Who Doesn’t Remember Faces
by Eric Tran
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chosen poem
I didn’t think of you at all today.
by Matthew Siegel
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child's poem
The Day the Saucers Landed
by Neil Gaiman
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Anna B. Sutton
Anna B.'s poem
City Planning
by Anna B. Sutton
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chosen poem
Averno
by Louise Gluck
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child's poem
The Universe Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
by Tracy K. Smith
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Regina DiPerna
Regina's poem
Death as Mutation
by Regina DiPerna
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chosen poem
The White Room
by Charles Simic
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child's poem
Forgiveness
by Sabrina Orah Mark
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Rochelle Hurt
Rochelle's poem
Poem in Which I Play the Runaway
by Rochelle Hurt
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chosen poem
With Mercy for the Greedy
by Anne Sexton
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child's poem
The Donkey and The Hippo
by Theodore Roethke
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Lisa Fay Coutley
Lisa Fay's poem
Shooting Geese
by Lisa Fay Coutley
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chosen poem
Morning Song
by Sylvia Plath
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child's poem
Long Leg Lou and Short Leg Sue
by Shel Silverstein
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RJ Gibson
RJ's poem
Agnosticism
by RJ Gibson
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chosen poem
Arrival of the Titanic
by William Dickey
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child's poem
Gashlycrumb Tinies
by Edward Gorey
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Mark Conway
Mark's poem
In the Ruins
by Mark Conway
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chosen poem
University Hospital Liverpool
by Jude Nutter
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child's poem
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by W.B. Yeats
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David J. Daniels
David J. 's poem
Mere Hours After the Drag Show
by David J. Daniels
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chosen poem
The Bean Eaters
by Gwendolyn Brooks
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child's poem
The Edge of the World
by Shel Silverstein
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Melanie Langa
Melanie's poem
Half An Hour at a Lansing VFW Post
by Melanie Langa
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chosen poem
my sweet old etcetera
by E.E. Cummings
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child's poem
The Disappearing Alphabet
by Richard Wilbur
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Mike Smith
Mike's poem
Predilections and Predicaments
by Mike Smith
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chosen poem
What Are Years?
by Marianne Moore
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child's poem
Bear’s Accent
by Mike Smith
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