The Cultured Bumpkin

A poem about Dad's by one of my Dad's favorite poets.

James Blunt singing "Monsters"

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This week I've been doing alot of writing. I'm working on an eBook about how to become a voice actor (stay tuned for more details). One of the things I keep things about is just not giving up. It's easy to think about, talk about, and write about, but hard to do.

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In this poem, Arnold describes his crisis of faith brought on by recent scientific discoveries.

It's something that just about everyone experiences at some point in their life, regardless if they come to the same conclusion.

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Wildred Owen was a "war poet" from the Great War (World War l) who was born in 1893 and was killed on November 4, 1918, just one week before the war ended. His work doesn't romanticize war at all. Even though he uses poetic, often beautiful terms, you often feel sick to your stomach after reading his work. War is an ugly business that should never be entered into lightly...

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This poem was requested by recent guest J.D. Sutter (https://www.audiotheatrecentral.com/)

You can do the same! Email me at [email protected] with your public domain requests and I will certainly consider it.

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The Raven is one of the most well known, influential, oft quoted poems of all American literature. Hope you enjoy this rendition...

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This is one of the most well known stories in the the entire Bible and involves a Persian tyrant, a group of jealous government officials, and a foreign prophet...

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Raine Fielder is from the Appalachia region as been writing poetry since she was in seventh grade, when she fell in love with a guitar player. She has written several poems, song lyrics, angry Facebook rants, short stories and several books. Writing has been her passion for her whole life.

What she is most passionate about is fighting injustice. Especially for the Native American community, feminism and survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. 

We connected on Tiktok when I put out an invite for voice actors to read poetry on the podcast. If YOU're a voice actor, or just like reading poetry and want to share something. Shoot me an email. We might can make it work.

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T.S. Eliot was a poet, writer, literary critic, and publisher who lived from 1888 to 1965.

His "Prufrock" marked a cultural shift into Modernism and is one of the most recogized poems in modern literature...

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When people think of classic American poetry from the 20th century, Robert Frost is one of the folks they think of of. Someone once said that "he is of the soil and loves country life and country people, and in his poetry country people and country scenes predominate." This poem fits that description perfectly...

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