The Dead Joke and The Funny Man

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dead Joke and The Funny Man by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 2017. Read in English by Bev J Stevens; Bruce Kachuk; David Lawrence; Lee Ann Howlett; Matthew Datcher; Scotty Smith; Tomas Peter; tovarisch and The Voice before the Void. James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during h