The New York Public Library is marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by publishing 30 recordings of NYPL staff members reading their favorite Shakespeare speeches, monologues, or sonnets. One recording per day will be published throughout the month of April.

April is National Poetry Month in the U.S. These recordings could provide a nice model for your own “poem a day” classroom project. You could have students each take a turn reading their favorite poems this month. SoundCloud makes it easy to record and assemble a playlist of spoken recordings. Take a look at the video below to learn how to record on SoundCloud.

H/T to Open Culture for the NYPL recordings.