Earth Day 2020: Nature Poetry Selections

For Earth Day 2020, and in honor of National Poetry Month choose a nature poem from the many listed below, or one of your own choosing. Record a video of yourself reading it out loud from your own personal outdoors. Be sure to mention the author and title and anything else you'd like to add.  Then email the MP4 file to the Louisburg College library, library@louisburg.edu.  We will publish it to our Library YouTube channel in an Earth Day playlist, and we will embed all the videos on the next page of this event guide so that all the readers can be seen and viewed together, much like a live read-in. We'll also send you back a link to your video, once it's published, so you can share it on your social media, or you can upload it yourself and tag us @louisburgcollegelibrary and save it as a reminder of your participation in Earth Day 2020. 

Copyright Notice: We can only publicly publish  works in the public domain (published prior to 1923) so as not to violate copyright laws. You can,of course, also read your own original poems as long as they fit the Earth Day theme. All the works (and authors) listed below are in the public domain to make it easy. We regret that this excludes many great authors and works published after 1923, but copyright laws must be obeyed when publishing in public forums like YouTube or our college website. Librarians reserve the right to decide if a video is suitable for publishing based on these criteria. Emailing us your video in accordance with this read-in constitutes a release to publish.