Links
Being a fan of the poetry as a spoken art led me to compile A Foot
in the Mouth: Poems to Speak, Sing, and Shout. If you like the spoken
word, you might be interested in Poetry Out Loud, a national competition
sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and The Poetry Foundation.
You can learn about it at http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ and
watch a short video about last year’s program.
I’m not sure how long “American Life in Poetry”-- will
be available online. It was a project of Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
for 2004-2006, which provided newspapers and online publications with a
free weekly column featuring contemporary American poems. The site offers
an archive of about 250 poems, as well as the chance to have a poem delivered
to your email inbox every week. http://www.americanlifeinpoetry.org
This PBS site for Poetry Everywhere with Garrison Keillor presents
23 short video presentations of poets--including Ted Kooser, Naomi Shihab
Nye, Lucille Clifton, and Robert Frost--reading their work. And if that's
not captivating enough, there is a link at the bottom of the page that
will take you to another video site containing films created by students
based on poems by contemporary poets. These students worked with docUWM,
a documentary media center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and
in the University creative writing program. 34 vids on this page. Enjoy! Poetry
Everywhere
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