Warlock Vorobok Reads

Listen to Warlock Vorobok read from an obscure 17th century poet whose pamphlets depicting lower- and middle-class life were burned in the streets by the authorities.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Cursed by a witch, a talking tree laments his failure to uphold virtue to a chivalric knight in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, one of the longest poems written in the English language.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

CHPL's resident warlock recites one of the most famous of the King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table tales: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which gallant Gawain agrees to trade axe strokes with the verdant knight only to discover a gruesome surprise.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

The Ancient Romans had many myths about gods and humans transforming into beasts. Here are two of the most frightening ones penned by one of the finest poets of his day, Ovid.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

At the end of this season of Warlock Vorobok Reads, after reading otherworld poetry from ancient Greece up until the start of the twentieth century, CHPL's resident warlock ends his supernatural saunter with the King of the Bohemians, George Sterling. On this episode, Warlock Vorobok reads “A Wine of Wizardry,” published in the September 1907 issue of Cosmopolitan. This poem stirred up lots of harsh comments by the critics, but is a spellbinding brilliance of phantasmagorical visions!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Warlock Vorobok is materializing terrific poetry from merely 50 miles away as the crow flies. Join us as CHPL's resident Warlock reads three of Dunbar's most bone-chilling poems.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Famously reclusive, Emily Dickinson hid her poetry out of sight until after her death. It is no surprise she should leave us some sepulchral poems about ghosts and decaying corpses. Gather round as the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library's resident Warlock reads three of Dickinson's supernatural poems.

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

From painter to wallpaper designer to socialist activist to inspiring J.R.R. Tolkien, William Morris dabbled in everything. Listen to his haunting Medieval-like poems The Tune of Seven Towers and Spell-Bound on another bewitching episode of Warlock Vorobok Reads!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

The words of Ann Radcliffe, the Queen of Gothic Fiction and the highest paid writer of the 1790s, are sent into the void on this month’s episode of Warlock Vorobok Reads. Gather close to CHPL’s resident warlock and prepare for the icy chill of the Snow-Fiend and Night!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.

Once upon a midnight podcast, while the Warlock was ready to broadcast, over many a quaint and curious poem of Edgar Allan Poe. Get ready for Halloween with three of Poe's best poems: the Conqueror Worm, the Bells, and, of course, the Raven!

Warlock Vorobok Reads is a monthly storytime for grownups.