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Mother Night

by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)

Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month.
(Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Bartleby e-text
• Wikipedia - James Weldon Johnson
• LibriVox’s Mother Night Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (8.3MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

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• Version 1 - 00:01:27
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  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:01:15
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  Read by: Chip
• Version 3 - 00:00:50
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  Read by: Constantinos Neophytou
• Version 4 - 00:01:01
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  Read by: David Baker
• Version 5 - 00:01:04
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  Read by: Eric Jean
• Version 6 - 00:01:19
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  Read by: Eugene Pinto
• Version 7 - 00:01:14
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  Read by: Hugh McGuire
• Version 8 - 00:01:02
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  Read by: Ted McElroy
• Version 9 - 00:01:13
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  Read by: Kristin Luoma
• Version 10 - 00:01:18
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  Read by: Fox in the Stars
• Version 11 - 00:00:51
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  Read by: Lisa
• Version 12 - 00:00:59
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  Read by: Paul Jacobus
• Version 13 - 00:01:31
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  Read by: Robert Garrison
• Version 14 - 00:00:56
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  Read by: Scott Cook
• Version 15 - 00:01:11
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  Read by: Stefan Schmelz