Audio Poetry Archives & Anthologies
Guide Picks: Recent Poetry CDs
Here’s what we do: put a CD on and never take it out... Your Poetry Guides have selected recently issued poetry CDs to add to your collection.
Here’s what we do: put a CD on and never take it out... Your Poetry Guides have selected recently issued poetry CDs to add to your collection.
Poetry Picks: The Best CDs of 2004
Casting our eyes back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guides Bob Holman & Margy Snyder choose the best poetry & spoken word recordings, the ones you'll want to remember from the past year.
Casting our eyes back across 2004 in the poetry world, Poetry Guides Bob Holman & Margy Snyder choose the best poetry & spoken word recordings, the ones you'll want to remember from the past year.
Guide Picks: Poetry Anthologies (Recordings)
Selected poetry/spoken word anthologies (in CD form) to add to your collection, recommended by your Poetry Guides.
Selected poetry/spoken word anthologies (in CD form) to add to your collection, recommended by your Poetry Guides.
Academy of American Poets Listening Booth
The Academy's Web site offers a long list of poems read by their authors (in RealAudio) -- everyone from W.H. Auden to Gwendolyn Brooks, T.S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo to Sylvia Plath to William Stafford, William Carlos Williams & W.B. Yeats. A bountiful archive, worth coming back to again and again.
The Academy's Web site offers a long list of poems read by their authors (in RealAudio) -- everyone from W.H. Auden to Gwendolyn Brooks, T.S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg, Joy Harjo to Sylvia Plath to William Stafford, William Carlos Williams & W.B. Yeats. A bountiful archive, worth coming back to again and again.
BBC Poetry Out Loud
A collection of audio recordings of poets performing their own work, from Seamus Heaney (“Bogland”) to Derek Walcott (“Homecoming: Anse la Raye”) & W.H. Auden (“After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics”) to Sylvia Plath (“Lady Lazarus”).
A collection of audio recordings of poets performing their own work, from Seamus Heaney (“Bogland”) to Derek Walcott (“Homecoming: Anse la Raye”) & W.H. Auden (“After Reading a Child’s Guide to Modern Physics”) to Sylvia Plath (“Lady Lazarus”).
The Book of Voices (e-poets.net)
Kurt Heintz' e-poets.net has a great collection of audio-poems in the chapters of The Book of Voices -- travel to Malawi with Jill Battson or listen to the poke ear music of Example: None. Bring your Realplayer & Quicktime along & visit the e-poets artists catalog for more audio & video clips.
Kurt Heintz' e-poets.net has a great collection of audio-poems in the chapters of The Book of Voices -- travel to Malawi with Jill Battson or listen to the poke ear music of Example: None. Bring your Realplayer & Quicktime along & visit the e-poets artists catalog for more audio & video clips.
The Cortland Review
Bringing the litmag aesthetic into multimedia bloom, The Cortland Review is publishing everything in RealAudio so you can read along with the poets' voices -- poems like “Leaving an Unknown City” by Charles Simic, “Accident” by Sharon Cumberland & “Divorce or Corrasable Bond” by Daniela Gioseffi.
Bringing the litmag aesthetic into multimedia bloom, The Cortland Review is publishing everything in RealAudio so you can read along with the poets' voices -- poems like “Leaving an Unknown City” by Charles Simic, “Accident” by Sharon Cumberland & “Divorce or Corrasable Bond” by Daniela Gioseffi.
DIA Center for the Arts Audio Archives
DIA's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series began in 1987; readings since 1994 are documented on the Web; & recordings from the 1987-1988 season by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Louise Gluck, Michael Palmer, Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Robert Hass & Amy Clampitt are in DIA's online collection.
DIA's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series began in 1987; readings since 1994 are documented on the Web; & recordings from the 1987-1988 season by John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Louise Gluck, Michael Palmer, Seamus Heaney, Frank Bidart, Robert Hass & Amy Clampitt are in DIA's online collection.
Electronic Poetry Center Sound Room
“An archive of sound art, spoken word poetry, audio hypermedia, and arts radio broadcasts,” this enormous site has lots to explore: wander through LINEbreak public radio programs (“Interviews & Performances from the Literary Edge”) or check the EPC Soundfiles archive, organized alphabetically by author, producer or composer.
“An archive of sound art, spoken word poetry, audio hypermedia, and arts radio broadcasts,” this enormous site has lots to explore: wander through LINEbreak public radio programs (“Interviews & Performances from the Literary Edge”) or check the EPC Soundfiles archive, organized alphabetically by author, producer or composer.
The Favorite Poem Project
Robert Pinsky’s ambitious project asked Americans to record their favorite poems, creating a portrait of the country at the turn of the millennium. The site is full of videos & texts, like Pablo Neruda’s “Puedo escribir” (“Tonight I Can Write” in Merwin’s English translation), Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” read by Stanley Kunitz & Sylvia Plath’s “Polly’s Tree” read by the Miller family.
Robert Pinsky’s ambitious project asked Americans to record their favorite poems, creating a portrait of the country at the turn of the millennium. The site is full of videos & texts, like Pablo Neruda’s “Puedo escribir” (“Tonight I Can Write” in Merwin’s English translation), Gerard Manley Hopkins’ “God’s Grandeur” read by Stanley Kunitz & Sylvia Plath’s “Polly’s Tree” read by the Miller family.
From the Fishouse
From the Fishouse is a free online audio archive that “promotes the oral tradition of poetry” by showcasing emerging poets reading their work & talking about poetry.
From the Fishouse is a free online audio archive that “promotes the oral tradition of poetry” by showcasing emerging poets reading their work & talking about poetry.
HarperAudio! Archive
HarperAudio's archive is rebroadcast at the Internet Multicasting Service, where you can hear Shakespeare's sonnets read by John Gielgud, Robert Frost & Dylan Thomas reading their own work, & Wallace Stevens, the modern sound-poet in his own voice.
HarperAudio's archive is rebroadcast at the Internet Multicasting Service, where you can hear Shakespeare's sonnets read by John Gielgud, Robert Frost & Dylan Thomas reading their own work, & Wallace Stevens, the modern sound-poet in his own voice.
Litstation: The Webradio Project, by Jim Finnegan
Jim Finnegan is the founder of Litstation.com -- a new Web radio broadcast source for poetry, fiction, interviews, book reviews and essays of literary interest.
Jim Finnegan is the founder of Litstation.com -- a new Web radio broadcast source for poetry, fiction, interviews, book reviews and essays of literary interest.
PennSound
Launched in January 2005, PennSound has grown into the richest cataloged archive of poetry audio anywhere. Directed by Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis, it’s a free, non-commercial source of high-quality poetry sound files -- singles for your mp3 player, reading series from Kelly Writers’ House, the Bowery Poetry Club & MiPoRadio, cuts from CDs donated by the artists & preserved classic readings.
Launched in January 2005, PennSound has grown into the richest cataloged archive of poetry audio anywhere. Directed by Charles Bernstein & Al Filreis, it’s a free, non-commercial source of high-quality poetry sound files -- singles for your mp3 player, reading series from Kelly Writers’ House, the Bowery Poetry Club & MiPoRadio, cuts from CDs donated by the artists & preserved classic readings.
Takayuki Nakano: Point d'orgue
Takayuki Nakano's amazing config.sys of Japanese performance po based on Finnegan's Wake: “if you police” with drum accompaniment. This will wake the living -- superb audio stream to keep you comfy on the long surf home.
Takayuki Nakano's amazing config.sys of Japanese performance po based on Finnegan's Wake: “if you police” with drum accompaniment. This will wake the living -- superb audio stream to keep you comfy on the long surf home.
Pieces for Simultaneous Voices
Jim Rosenberg's multivoice recordings (inspired by David Bromige) date back 25 years, but they are newly ensconced at the Electronic Poetry Center.
Jim Rosenberg's multivoice recordings (inspired by David Bromige) date back 25 years, but they are newly ensconced at the Electronic Poetry Center.
Poet Sounds
“SlamMania,” Lisa Martinovic's article for the San Francisco Chronicle, is accompanied online by a series of mpeg & Quicktime audio files of slam poets.
“SlamMania,” Lisa Martinovic's article for the San Francisco Chronicle, is accompanied online by a series of mpeg & Quicktime audio files of slam poets.
The Poet Speaks With A Thousand Voices
Great use of the blog form to create an anonymous archive of readings: “The Poet Speaks With A Thousand Voices” opens the blog to call-in readers, asking them to share their voices by reading a poem over the phone, and posting the contributions as audio blog entries. Bravo!
Great use of the blog form to create an anonymous archive of readings: “The Poet Speaks With A Thousand Voices” opens the blog to call-in readers, asking them to share their voices by reading a poem over the phone, and posting the contributions as audio blog entries. Bravo!
PoetryMagazine.com's Streaming Poetry
PoetryMagazine.com has gone RealAudio & now offers audio recordings of poems by Jennifer Ley and David Hunter Sutherland, plus Richard Schiff reading Joshua Epstein (1903-1985).
PoetryMagazine.com has gone RealAudio & now offers audio recordings of poems by Jennifer Ley and David Hunter Sutherland, plus Richard Schiff reading Joshua Epstein (1903-1985).
The Poetry Archive
Put together by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion & recording producer Richard Carrington, the Poetry Archive is collecting classics & making new recordings of English-speaking poets reading their own work, and putting them all online for free, with guided tours by people like Motion & Stephen Frye, and lots of ways to search. Ambitious & admirable!
Put together by UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion & recording producer Richard Carrington, the Poetry Archive is collecting classics & making new recordings of English-speaking poets reading their own work, and putting them all online for free, with guided tours by people like Motion & Stephen Frye, and lots of ways to search. Ambitious & admirable!
Salon Audio/MP3Lit Poetry
MP3Lit was the first place to come for a RealAudio listen or an MP3 download & as Salon’s audio department, it still is. Everyone is here, from W.H. Auden to Ellyn Maybe, Sylvia Plath to Charles Simic to Wanda Coleman.
MP3Lit was the first place to come for a RealAudio listen or an MP3 download & as Salon’s audio department, it still is. Everyone is here, from W.H. Auden to Ellyn Maybe, Sylvia Plath to Charles Simic to Wanda Coleman.
Sonnet Central Listening Room
Eric Blomquist, Annie Callan, Aniina Jokinnen & Russ Van Westervelt read some of the great English sonnets in RealAudio for Sonnet Central.
Eric Blomquist, Annie Callan, Aniina Jokinnen & Russ Van Westervelt read some of the great English sonnets in RealAudio for Sonnet Central.
Sounds from the Underground
From Berkeley performance artist & provocateur Frank Moore, Sounds from the Underground is “cookin’ with sound... music, poetry readings, sound collages, interviews, jams, and whatever else we or YOU(!) come up with!” selections updated monthly or thereabouts. Get your RealAudio up & listen!
From Berkeley performance artist & provocateur Frank Moore, Sounds from the Underground is “cookin’ with sound... music, poetry readings, sound collages, interviews, jams, and whatever else we or YOU(!) come up with!” selections updated monthly or thereabouts. Get your RealAudio up & listen!
SpokenWar Audio
This is WAR! SpokenWar, that is. Greg Stant of Denver has the most beautiful spoken word site on the Net, and he’s taken it truly “spoken” with audio + video (two of the site’s four sections -- the others are “photo” & “write”).
This is WAR! SpokenWar, that is. Greg Stant of Denver has the most beautiful spoken word site on the Net, and he’s taken it truly “spoken” with audio + video (two of the site’s four sections -- the others are “photo” & “write”).
Tapping My Own Phone
Tilt-A-Whirl Press is gone, but all the cuts from Ron Whitehead’s CD Tapping My Own Phone are preserved from their site in RealAudio, unexpected online bounty! Sample treasures like “[http://mark.stosberg.com/tilt-a-whirl/audio/asheville.ram]Asheville[/link].”
Tilt-A-Whirl Press is gone, but all the cuts from Ron Whitehead’s CD Tapping My Own Phone are preserved from their site in RealAudio, unexpected online bounty! Sample treasures like “[http://mark.stosberg.com/tilt-a-whirl/audio/asheville.ram]Asheville[/link].”
ubuweb: sound
ubuweb presents an extraordinary & ever-growing RealAudio collection of “sound poetry” (now expanded to “sound art”) both historical & brand-new. Some of the recordings are old or scratchy or faint, but you can listen to Guillaume Apollinaire, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, e.e. cummings, Brion Gysin, Jackson MacLow, Kurt Schwitters, Edwin Torres & more here.
ubuweb presents an extraordinary & ever-growing RealAudio collection of “sound poetry” (now expanded to “sound art”) both historical & brand-new. Some of the recordings are old or scratchy or faint, but you can listen to Guillaume Apollinaire, William Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, e.e. cummings, Brion Gysin, Jackson MacLow, Kurt Schwitters, Edwin Torres & more here.
Vispo Audio
“Dedicated to life, poetry, and the ABC’s of a new art,” Jim Andrews’ Vispo site is mostly devoted to visual poem-art pieces, but also includes a large audio section with works by Andrews & others -- like Paul McKinnon’s stand-up travelogue, “Wake Up & Smell the Bus Depot.”
“Dedicated to life, poetry, and the ABC’s of a new art,” Jim Andrews’ Vispo site is mostly devoted to visual poem-art pieces, but also includes a large audio section with works by Andrews & others -- like Paul McKinnon’s stand-up travelogue, “Wake Up & Smell the Bus Depot.”
Wired on Words
Wired on Words is a virtual nexus of the Montreal performance poetry scene -- their Releases catalog offers sample cuts from spoken word+music CDs on the Wired on Words label, like Ian Ferrier’s Exploding Head Man & the Millennium Cabaret compilation.
Wired on Words is a virtual nexus of the Montreal performance poetry scene -- their Releases catalog offers sample cuts from spoken word+music CDs on the Wired on Words label, like Ian Ferrier’s Exploding Head Man & the Millennium Cabaret compilation.
The Writer’s Almanac
Minnesota Public Radio hosts Garrison Keillor’s daily reading of a poem & notes on literary history, and the audio archives at The Writer’s Almanac Web site go all the way back to 1998.
Minnesota Public Radio hosts Garrison Keillor’s daily reading of a poem & notes on literary history, and the audio archives at The Writer’s Almanac Web site go all the way back to 1998.