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Poetry Readings Elsewhere

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:04:52 +0000

Where does the tradition of oral poetry performance intersect with digital culture? One answer is in the audio podcast, where edited spoken word is combined with a sound-track and piped into the listerners’ white I-pod ear buds. My first podcast of this sort featured the work of Chilean poet Cecilia Vicuna. Here are two podcasts produced after the readings of local poets Ed Carvahlo and Kyle Huffnagel in the Uncommon Words series.

Constantly Risking the Road

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:53:42 +0000

In a session of the “Celebrating Literacies” gathering for high school students at IUP, we explored “Remixed, Mashed-Up Literary Podcasts. This session exposed students to the relationships between pop-cultural remixes and the creative processes involved in literature.

Here is our quick and rough attempt at a collaborative podcast with 20 readers, a mashup of poems by two poets, Robert Frost versus Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Poetry Remixes

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:53:34 +0000

The tools and techniques of digital audio editing invite a new kind of collage sometimes called a mashup. In these two pieces, snippets or clips from a number of different pieces and speakers are combined into new works. The two remixes are entertaining and thought provoking in their juxtapositions. The voices are students and performers at a local reading in the Uncommon Words series in Indiana, PA.

Brian Humphreys’ Final Project

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:47:30 +0000

In this 9 minute podcast, oral literature student Brian podcast discusses and shares audio clips of oral poetry.

Halloween Reading

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:52:11 +0000

A dramatic reading of H.G. Wells’ “The Red Room” with music

Keith Pentland’s Improvisation - What is Oral Poetry?

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:16:46 +0000

For Keith’s Final Project in Oral Literature, he explored the scope and definition of oral poetry in a spoken improvisation. It recalls both the performances of David Antin, whom we studied, and the way that education was once conducted — through listening and recitation.

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