Absinthe Art & Video Exhibit
Put together by T. Dunn (editor of Zuzu's Petals), Absinthe includes such clips as her own poetry video, “Correspondences.”
Best Minds Poetry Series
Performance videos from poets “dedicated to unobscurate intensely vivid subject manufactured compassionate language,” brought to the Net by the Museum of American Poetics: see Jim Cohn, Peter Cook & Anne Waldman in the first set of clips.
epcLIVE from the Buffalo Electronic Poetry Center
Hosted by Loss Glazier, live discussions on Internet Relay Chat on the EPC channel range from formal sessions with invited guests to collaborative poetry improvisations. Drop by Monday nights from 7-8 pm Eastern time.
The Favorite Poem Project
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's ambitious audio/video project asked Americans to record their favorite poems, creating a vast archive, a portrait of the country at the turn of the millennium. Last year the site began with audio recordings & texts; this year it's been filled with poetry movies, streaming videos of each favorite poem introduced & read by the person who chose it, from an Atlanta Little Leaguer (“Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Thayer) to a San Jose anesthesiologist (“The Way of the Water Hyacinth” by Zawgee) to President Clinton (“Concord Hymn” by Ralph Waldo Emerson).
Fooling With Words
Bill Moyers returned to PBS in September 1999 with a new po-documentary from the Dodge Poetry Festival. The site has a nice selection of video clips from the film.
komninos's cyberpoetry
“cyberpoetry, poetry that cannot be published in the traditional print media, poetry that moves in time and space, poetry that requires new ways of reading, poetry that allows interaction, poetry that is moving digital, aural, visual, and animated. . . ”
The Language of Life
A selection of poems, thoughts on poetry & bios of all the poets profiled in Bill Moyers' 8-hour PBS series.
Literature and Life
This PBS series based on the Givens Collection of African-American Literature has archived lots of video in its Web incarnation. Chapter 4, “Say It Loud: Black Arts Movement,” for instance, includes RealVideo readings by Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka & Nikki Giovanni.
Poems That Go
Megan Sapnar & Ingrid Ankerson's beautiful site was “created to unite words, design, sound and motion and to celebrate poetry through technology and the Internet.” It succeeds most wonderfully, with a selection of their own Webvideo poems & links to other poems that go & essays on new media poetry.
The Poetry Game Show (in The Wall Street Journal)
Tennyson, meet Pat Sajak. “When poetry goes prime time, don't expect reason or rhyme.”
Poetry Webcast (on Ann Arbor Poetry Forum)
A RealAudio anthology of readings, soundtracks, profiles & commentary. There oughta be more of this, poets' voices breaking the silence of the Net. No new Webcast has gone up since M.L. Liebler in November 1997, but the old ones are worth a listen.
poetryvideo.com
Poetryvideo.com had hopes of becoming the new source of Net access to recorded performances of living poets from around the world, but they are currently rebuilding & we will have to wait to see what it becomes.
SlamNation
The New York Times online reviewed the film Paul Devlin made at the 1996 Portland National Poetry Slam & said “they have helped make poetry sexy again.”
Sony (Spoken) Words & Music
Sony Music, Honey magazine & GO! Poetry presented this online “Rap Meets Poetry” event June 24, 1999 for Black Music Month, Netcast live online from NYC. Now you can see Sarah Jones, Laini Mataka, Jessica Care Moore, Carl Hancock Rux, Sekou Sundiata, Gil Scott-Heron & Nikki Giovnni in the video archives at GO! Poetry.
United States of Poetry
It's back! As big'n'bold as ever, with tons of audio and video clips from the award-winning PBS series produced by Josh Blum and Bob Holman, directed by Mark Pellington. This is a new address for USOP, but it's still a benchmark in poetry and media mix-it-up, lie back, cool heels in mouth, and engage the world as poem philosophy.
A VideoZine from Telepoetics
Dedicated to taking poetry over the speed bump and launching the millennium in a cradle that's endlessly rocking and rolling. . . This is Telepoetics, the wooky pad of Merilene M. Murphy (ask me what the M stands for sometime).
Voices & Visions
The 13-part PBS series from the Annenberg/CPB Project has highs (the people-in-the-street renderings of “Wheelbarrow”!) and lows (crrrritics), but this Web version is well done to the max and a great resource for some of the U.S.'s greatest poets -- from Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman to Marianne Moore & Elizabeth Bishop.
