Monthly Archives: May 2011

Creating a Set List for Your Poetry Reading

Posted on May 31, 2011 by

Preparing for a poetry reading can be a bit unnerving, especially if you’ve got lots of poems in your folder and especially if you’re relatively new to poetry readings.  It might help to approach the event as if you’re a … Continue reading →

Posted in reading-as-performance | 5 Comments

accents & dialects in reading poetry aloud

Posted on May 21, 2011 by

Check out this interesting exchange. Excerpt: …one difficulty that will exist when we are reading poetry from poets around the world is the ‘musicality’ of the poetry. Poetry is essentially to be read aloud but I am a Northern Englishman, … Continue reading →

Posted in accents, poem-as-voice | 6 Comments

‘meet for the eye of the younger alligator’ – Wallace Stevens

Posted on May 15, 2011 by

Nomad Exquisite is a terrific sound-and-feeling poem that pours itself out in one lovely unthinking glob. The kind of poem that would elicit rather bleating criticism in a workshop while asserting itself like a hot pulse that hasn’t the first … Continue reading →

Posted in poem-as-voice | 2 Comments

losing your voice

Posted on May 11, 2011 by

A moving meditation on voice from Christopher Hitchens who, defining himself by his voice, is losing his voice to throat cancer.

Posted in voice | 4 Comments

‘How To Make A Raft’ read by Brenda Clews

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

Brenda Clews is a poet with a Mac who blogs at Rubies in Crystal. Here she reads the poem read by the Voice Alpha gang last week – How To Make A Raft by Elisa Albo, donated by the poet … Continue reading →

Posted in How To Make A Raft, internet performance, poem-as-voice | 2 Comments