A resource for all!

Recited Verse allows students to read aloud, practice, and recite lines from their favorite Romantic-era poems or other passages. Students may also wish to translate key passage to different languages and record them, making those lines their own.  Other students can respond to these audio files. We are excited to hear lines of poetry and key passages spoken from different geographical locations, in different languages, accents, interpretations, and voices – breathing in new life to familiar or otherwise overlooked lines. These new entries will change what Romantic poetry sounds like to us and our students.

Recited Verse is founded and directed by a team of literary scholars from the University of San Francisco, University of California Los Angeles, and Notre Dame de Namur University. Omar F. Miranda founded the idea for Recited Verse back in 2013 when he was a graduate student at NYU, as he wanted to develop a way for poetry (old or new) to feel modern through an accessible, interactive, and engaging platform.

Many talented student web developers from the Computer Science departments from New York University and University of San Francisco have helped bring the project to its current state. The project has been generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of San Francisco.