Research Guides: Poetry as Performance: THTR 1008: Audio/Video

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Audacity
This is a classic tool for digital audio recording and editing. All the same it bears mentioning, especially for those who want to share their works online or to at least get a feel for how their poems sound.
Aviary
This is an exciting suite of tools. Its audio editor, Myna, and its music creation tool, Roc, would be the most relevant to this discussion. Phoenix, its image editor, and Talon, its screen capture component, would nonetheless serve poets well for creating Web sites or other publicity materials.

Poetry in Audio and Video

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new window
Drama in streaming audio performed by leading actors from around the world.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Films on Demand is a source of videos and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films on Demand combines : Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Indiefeed Performance Poetry Channel
Contains not only the audio files of cutting-edge poems, but also (in most cases) links to the poets’ Web sites. It has a readily available link for contact with the podcast’s host.
Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
From Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (its department of Writing and Poetics), features readings, performances, lectures, workshops, etc., from wellknown U.S. avant-garde poets.
Poet Vision Webcasts
From the Library of Congress, filmed between 1988-1990. Ten famous poets, including some former U.S. Poets Laureate, read and discuss their work.

Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Theatre in Video provides access to plays and documentaries in a streaming format. Users have the ability to bookmark scenes and create film clips along with the option of sharing them with other users of Theatre in Video.

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