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Video and Audio Poetry Recordings



Video/Webcast Poetry
Audio Poetry

Click Here for information about poetry reference works located at Vairo Library
and for full text poetry on the web, and within the E-Resource databases


Note: "How to Cite" streaming video/webcast poetry: http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/poetry/poetry-cite.html

Video/webcast poetry:

Literature Online (E-Resource list database):
Click "Poets on Screen" (left side bar menu).


http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/poetry/poetry-general.html
This site contains the Library of Congress's links to other poetry video/webcasts

http://www.loc.gov/poetry/cyberpoet.html
This Library of Congress site contains links to webcasts of “Poet Vision Series: Poet Vision features great poets reading and talking intimately about their work”, and webcasts of “The Poet and the Poem series. [This] is an ongoing series of live poetry evenings at the Library of Congress”.

http://www.livepoets.com/
1. Select “Media Timeline”
2. Select year
Most of these poems appear to be performances at Poetry Slams, they are in video format (Quicktime).

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/main_video.html
Real Media or Quicktime video clips from a Bill Moyers video about poetry. Clips include Mark Doty, Sharon Olds, Jane Hirshfield, W.S. Merwin and Denise Duhamel.

http://nikki-giovanni.com/artman/publish/c_index_12.shtml
Video recordings of Nikki Giovanni reading her poetry

http://www.favoritepoem.org/thevideos/index.html
People read their favorite poem, in video format (real media)

http://www.poetspath.com/bestmind.html
“The Best Minds Poetry Series features performances from diverse poet communities” (website), in video/webcast format

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~wh/webcasts/
Kelly’s Writers House has links to presentations and readings by poets.

http://www.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/19018
This site has video from the "the Poetry International Festival"

http://directory.eliterature.org/
This site is a directory of video and audio poetry pulled from many sources.
Directions: Find the technique/genre heading “Recorded Reading/Performance”, then click “Poetry”. At that page either browse or search.

http://www.lii.org/pub/subtopic/407
Links to a variety of poetry sites that contain audio and video.


Audio poetry:

Smithsonian Global Sound - Spoken Word Recordings (E-Resource database)
1. Click on the link to "Smithsonian Global Sound"
2. On the left side menu, click "Spoken Word & Sounds"
3. Pick "Poetry" from the "Sub-Genre" drop down menu.

http://www.lannan.org/lf/audio/lannan-archives/
Directions:
1. Click on “Authors A-D” etc., found on the right side of page under “Audio Archive Listings”
2. Click on name of person

http://dir.salon.com/topics/poetry_audio/index.html
92 audio entries of poets reading their own work.

http://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/
Audio recordings of Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef Komunyakaa, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur. “The entry for each poet comprises audio clips of the poet reading several poems, the poet's comments on the works, a photograph of the poet and any other graphics that would help a reader understand the poem” (website).

http://www.poets.org/audio.php
Audio of poems read by their authors. “There are more than 150 audio clips on Poets.org, and our list is always growing”.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/poetry/outloud/
More audio of poets reading their own work.

http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/
Sound recordings of poets from the “Dia's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series”.

http://www.cortlandreview.com/authors.php
“ This site features a collection of audio recordings exclusive to The Cortland Review”.

Directions:
S
earch by author, then click on poem title, and then click the “real audio” icon.

http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HarperAudio/
Audio of poems, some are read by their authors. Includes many famous poets such as T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and Anne Sexton

http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/poets/toc.html
“ Poets on Poets is an audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world. These poets have chosen poems they particularly admire, and some have provided audio commentary on how the poem has influenced their work”. MP3 audio plus text
(website)

http://homes.ukoln.ac.uk/~lispjh/graves/audio/index.html
Robert Graves reading his poetry and prose

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/poems/poems.html
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads most of the poems on this website (poems are written by other authors).

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive
Contemporary poets read their work, has some historic recordings also.

http://directory.eliterature.org/
This site is a directory of video and audio poetry pulled from many sources.
Directions: Find the technique/genre heading “Recorded Reading/Performance”, then click “Poetry”. At that page either browse or search.

http://www.lii.org/pub/subtopic/407
Links to a variety of poetry sites that contain audio and video.

http://www.laurable.com/sites.html
Links to other audio poetry websites.

http://www.poetrymagazine.com/real/index.htm

 

Last updated 02/03/06

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