Susan Larson reads a scene from Nancy Drew's first adventure, "The Secret of the Old Clock": "Nancy struggled to get away.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

She also said that after she writes the last word, she goes back later,re-reads the story and then writes a new version.

VOA: special.2011.03.18

The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Now listen as Mister Scheer reads the same sentences again, but this time in Modern English.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

Listen for a few moments as Warren Scheer reads the beginning of Chaucer's famous "Canterbury Tales."

VOA: special.2011.01.05

The artist uses curving shapes and waving lines to represent his lover as she reads.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

In one video, a United States Marine officer named Steve Conteaguero reads a poem.

VOA: special.2011.01.31

Here he reads part of Sylvia's Plath's poem, "Nick and the Candlestick."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Listen as Ray Freeman reads from "The Cat in the Hat."

VOA: special.2010.05.02

One man reads from a poem by the English writer,John Keats: " 'She cannot fade, though thou has not thy bliss, Forever wilt thou love, and she be fair.'

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Here Nicholas Godfrey reads his winning poem "When Simplicity Dies."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The stone reads,"Zora Neale Hurston,A Genius of the South."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Here,she reads her poem "Admonitions."

VOA: special.2010.04.18