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

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

The first amendment to the United States Constitution reads Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof The idea is to keep governmental powers independent from private religious beliefs.

VOA: special.2010.03.05