Poetry out loud
A few links for a rainy evening. I’ve always liked hearing poets read their work out loud, caveats about the "poetry-reading voice" notwithstanding:
The PENNsound archive, home of more recordings of poets reading than you can shake a stick at.
Paul Muldoon, whose work has interested me for a while, has a bunch of recordings on his home page, all from a 2002 reading.
New podcast I’ve just subscribed to: the Griffin Poetry Prize podcast.
And, found while Googling to figure out where I’d first seen the phrase "poetry reading voice": this article from Slate on the British Library’s "Spoken Word" CD. Check out the sound clips.
I’m with you on hearing poets read their own stuff…it’s when Garrison Keeler reads, well, anything at all, but for the sake of current conversation, poetry, that I want to rip my ears off.
(loud inhalation) “Two roads diverged–” (loud inhalation) “–in a yellow wood” (loud inhalation) etc.
Hey, Amanda–you might want to check out miporadio.net sometime–contemporary usually youngish and not as widely known and perhaps more experimental (I know, no one likes that word but it remains on occasion useful) poets reading their stuff. There are also audio interviews, essays, etc.–it’s technically a weekly radio show, but each individual piece is archived as an mp3 so you can sample only those poems/poets you choose.
Oh, what a great site — thanks, Emily!