The Poet's Forge

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830 - 1885)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Poet's Forge by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 20, 2011.

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was a United States writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor (1881). Her novel Ramona dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California and attracted considerable attention to her cause.

Fiske attended Ipswich Female Seminary and the Abbott Institute, a boarding school run by Reverend J.S.C. Abbott in New York City. She was a classmate of the poet Emily Dickinson, also from Amherst. The two corresponded for the rest of their lives, but few of their letters have survived. ( Summary by Wikipedia )

Genre(s): Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Poet's Forge - Read by AMB Ann Boulais
00:01:44
Play 02 The Poet's Forge - Read by CC Chris Caron
00:01:24
Play 03 The Poet's Forge - Read by DL David Lawrence
00:01:58
Play 04 The Poet's Forge - Read by FS fshort
00:02:23
Play 05 The Poet's Forge - Read by GC Snapdragon
00:01:45
Play 06 The Poet's Forge - Read by GHS Algy Pug
00:01:56
Play 07 The Poet's Forge - Read by JCM Jason Mills
00:01:50
Play 08 The Poet's Forge - Read by LAH Lee Ann Howlett
00:02:13
Play 09 The Poet's Forge - Read by LKP Lucy Perry
00:01:41
Play 10 The Poet's Forge - Read by LLB Lewis
00:01:49
Play 11 The Poet's Forge - Read by LLW Leonard Wilson
00:02:02
Play 12 The Poet's Forge - Read by REF Rhonda Federman
00:01:58
Play 13 The Poet's Forge - Read by RN ravenotation
00:02:23