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Selected Authors for Reading Aloud

With Themes for Readings

George Ade

  1. Run for the Roses - 5/3/2008

Dave Barry

  1. Baseball 4/23/06
  2. Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll - 8/18/03
  3. A Chill up Your Spine 10/27/02

Charles Baudelaire

  1. Bounty - 11/18/07
  2. Masks 10/30/04

Robert Benchley

  1. Run for the Roses - 5/3/2008
  2. Ghosts 10/31/07
  3. Ides of March 3/18/07
  4. Baseball 4/23/06
  5. Birthdays 3/19/05
  6. Masks 10/30/04
  7. Avian Literary Evening 5/29/04

Jorge Luis Borges

  1. Run for the Roses - 5/3/2008
  2. Souls 10/29/06
  3. Anniversaries 3/26/06
  4. Let me Count the Ways 2/15/03
  5. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

Elizabeth Browning

  1. Anniversaries 3/26/06
  2. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

Robert Browning

  1. Dante and Chianti 6/3/02
  2. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

Charles Bukowski

  1. Talk About Sex 2/12/05
  2. Fallen Women 9/25/04

Orson Scott Card

  1. Love is Magical 2/18/07
  2. Talk About Sex 2/12/05

Lewis Carroll

  1. Run for the Roses 5/3/08
  2. Birthdays - 3/19/2005
  3. Food for Thought 11/29/03

Chaucer

  1. Lovers' Leap - 2/17/2008

Dante

  1. Lovers' Leap - 2/17/2008
  2. Souls 10/29/06
  3. Fallen Women 9/25/04
  4. Idylls of March 3/1/03
  5. Dante and Chianti 6/3/02

Robert Frost

  1. Anniversaries 3/26/06
  2. A Chill up Your Spine 10/27/02
  3. Poetry and Potation 4/30/02

George Herbert

Vice Verse 2/24/2009

Homer

  1. Food for Thought 11/29/03
  2. Symposium 7/2/02

John Keats

  1. "Dear John"/Lover Letters 2/12/2010
  2. Let me Count the Ways 2/15/03
  3. Dante and Chianti 6/3/02
  4. Poetry and Potation 4/30/02

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  1. Disasters 1/15/10
  2. Dante and Chianti 6/3/02
  3. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

Edna St. Vincent Millay

  1. "Dear John"/Lover Letters 2/12/2010
  2. Poetry and Potation 4/30/2002

John Milton

  1. Lovers' Leap - 2/17/2008

Ovid

  1. Lovers' Leap - 2/17/2008
  2. Talk About Sex 2/12/05
  3. Avian Literary Night 5/29/04
  4. Death 11/1/03
  5. Fairy Tales 4/21/03
  6. Dante and Chianti 6/3/02

Dorothy Parker

  1. "Dear John"/Lover Letters 2/12/2010
  2. The Beat Goes On 9/5/2009
  3. Vice Verse 2/24/2009

Walker Percy

  1. Run for the Roses - 5/3/2008

Cole Porter

  1. Fallen Women 9/25/04
  2. Food for Thought 11/29/03
  3. Let me Count the Ways 2/15/03

Ezra Pound

  1. Winter 1/11/09
  2. Heat up Your Holidays 12/14/02

Francois Rabelais

  1. Bounty 11/18/07

Robert Service

  1. Winter 1/11/09
  2. Rhymes with June 6/30/08
  3. Death 11/1/03

William Shakespeare

  1. Masks 10/30/04
  2. Avian Literary Night 5/29/04
  3. Idylls of March 3/1/03
  4. A Chill up Your Spine 10/27/02
  5. Poetry and Potation 4/30/02

Percy Shelley

  1. Rhymes with June 6/30/08
  2. Avian Literary Night - 5/29/2004
  3. Death - 11/1/2003

H. Allen Smith

  1. Rhymes with June 6/30/08
  2. Idylls of March 3/1/03
  3. Poetry and Potation 4/30/02

Alfred Tennyson

  1. Heroes - 4/10/2010
  2. Poetry and Potation 4/30/02
  3. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

James Thurber

  1. Disasters 1/15/10
  2. American Dream 7/3/03
  3. Fairy Tales 4/21/03
  4. Expose Yourself to Literature 5/26/01

W. B. Yeats

  1. Masks 10/30/04
  2. Avian Literary Night 5/29/04

Oscar Wilde

  1. "Dear John"/Lover Letters 2/12/2010