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A companion site to Whale Sound, Voice Alpha is a repository for thoughts, theories, suggestions, likes and dislikes and anything else related to the art and science of reading poetry aloud for an audience. If you would like to guest-blog at Voice Alpha, please email nic_sebastian at hotmail dot com.‘Dear Voice Alpha’ – poetry reading advice column
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
a talent *not* owned by every poet? reading their poems well aloud
Oregon is organized! They are archiving voicings of poems by Oregon poets here. (Hat tip Maureen Doallas). I love the idea of archiving poems-as-voice, and absolutely think more states and entities and people should do it. So yay, Oregon! What … Continue reading
Posted in other people's poems, poem-as-voice
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‘wallops of wholesale death’ – Carl Sandburg
I’ve gushed about Carl Sandburg’s reading style before and here I am again. It’s not so much that I completely get how/why he sees and reads and hears a poem the way he does, just that I’m fascinated with how … Continue reading
Posted in readers Nic likes
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Filming Poems and Readings: “Howl”
Dave Bonta has a great post about seeing the recent movie Howl. His review is well worth reading; he changed my mind about seeing the movie, which I hadn’t planned to do, and now I can hardly wait. He talks … Continue reading
Posted in reading-as-performance
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Recapturing Read-Aloud Magic
A quick post here to link to an article on poetry readings from Jess Lacher at the Kenyon Review blog: “Whatever happened to the sort of reading out loud we got when we were kids– when your mom talked in … Continue reading
From bookstore to telephone: the incredible shrinking poetry reading
No one cares about public readings — unless, apparently, they’re delivered via telephone. Or so one might conclude by reading, first, a new screed at the New York Observer by Michael H. Miller, “No One Cares About Your Reading“: Is … Continue reading
Posted in live performance, reading-as-performance
Tagged Heather Christle, Michael H. Miller
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