Adam Tessier – Lit Bits http://litbits.tengrrl.com Just another WordPress site Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:59:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day—Daily? http://litbits.tengrrl.com/2009/08/24/shall-i-compare-thee-to-a-summers-day-daily/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:59:12 +0000 http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/?p=2334 Continue reading "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day—Daily?"]]> If you find that even the liveliest poems sometimes feel dead on the page, if now and again you’d like to be at a reading rather than reading, or if you’re just trying to squeeze more poetry into your busy schedule, Our Daily Sonnet will be a treat. Dismayed by the dearth of recordings of Shakespeare’s sonnets available on the internet, Adam Tessier decided to record videos of friends and strangers reading the Bard’s poetry. Videos will appear once a day, every day, until all 154 sonnets have been read.

Today’s sonnet:

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Joelle Hann is a senior editor at Bedford/St.Martin’s who worked on the third edition of Helen Vendler’s Poems, Poets, Poetry, and originally created the Teaching Poetry blog in 2009.

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