Sympathy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 14th, 2007.
Chapters
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| Sympathy | 1:42 | Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg | |
| Sympathy | 1:17 | Read by Claire Goget | |
| Sympathy | 1:46 | Read by Cori Samuel | |
| Sympathy | 1:47 | Read by David Barnes | |
| Sympathy | 1:36 | Read by Beth Peat | |
| Sympathy | 1:30 | Read by Ezwa | |
| Sympathy | 1:22 | Read by JimmyLogan | |
| Sympathy | 1:39 | Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) | |
| Sympathy | 1:57 | Read by Kristin LeMoine | |
| Sympathy | 1:24 | Read by Laurie Anne Walden | |
| Sympathy | 1:40 | Read by Mark F. Smith | |
| Sympathy | 1:32 | Read by Sean McKinley | |
| Sympathy | 1:35 | Read by Sam Fold | |
| Sympathy | 1:46 | Read by Sean McGaughey | |
| Sympathy | 1:49 | Read by Ted Delorme | |
| Sympathy | 1:36 | Read by Val Grimm |