Poetry Forum Media Room (AW Poet Readings included)

William Haskins · Mar 31, 2014

thought it might be nice to have a place to share links to audio or video recordings of poets and poetic things.

here's a couple to get started:

john berryman reading "life, friends, is boring":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpimsgfNj7c

anne sexton at home reading "wanting to die":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM6nWRXCQD8

William Haskins · Mar 31, 2014

dylan thomas reading "if i were tickled by the rub of love":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ONQvjeOho

read along: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178632

William Haskins · Mar 31, 2014

5 poems by audre lorde:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k36ObcXFWCY

poetinahat · Mar 31, 2014

Kafka's Hat, by Richard Brautigan - read by Hans Ostrom

William Haskins · Mar 31, 2014

william burroughs reading "thanksgiving prayer":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nSxArk9g8

read along:

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/thanksgivingprayer.htm

William Haskins · Mar 31, 2014

t.s. eliot's "the hollow men" read by tom o'bedlam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwcP3NOCeiE

William Haskins · Apr 1, 2014

frank o'hara reads "having a coke with you":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDLwivcpFe8

read along:

http://mappingthemarvellous.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/having-a-coke-with-you/

Perks · Apr 1, 2014

Two readings of Litany, by Billy Collins --

The first is cute to the nth degree

The second is the poet reading it, showing us with cadence and inflection how it's supposed to sound.

Xelebes · Apr 1, 2014

Concrete poetry:

Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange - Dreams (Inventions for Radio No. 1), 1964

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_zsqO3oLkM

William Haskins · Apr 1, 2014

"the unfaithful housewife" by federico garcia lorca, read by tom o'bedlam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBl3ScU9vc8

text in video

poetinahat · Apr 1, 2014

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, purportedly being recited by Oscar Wilde (one of the comment says it's been found to be a forgery)

William Haskins · Apr 1, 2014

poetinahat said:
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, purportedly being recited by Oscar Wilde (one of the comment says it's been found to be a forgery)

thanks, rob. that whole "is it him?" saga is fun:

http://copperas.com/wilde/basc.htm

http://copperas.com/wilde/wilde_voice.html

https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2012/08/the-voice-of-oscar-wilde-a-few-years-before-his-death/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1047178.stm

William Haskins · Apr 1, 2014

william blake's "the tyger" beautifully set to music by tangerine dream:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42CYiUtGafQ

dolores haze · Apr 2, 2014

John Cooper Clarke on The Innes Book of Records (old Brit TV show)

Evidently Chickentown

William Haskins · Apr 2, 2014

dolores haze said:
John Cooper Clarke on The Innes Book of Records (old Brit TV show)

Evidently Chickentown

great selection! punk poetry royalty, he is...

William Haskins · Apr 2, 2014

10 minute mini-doc:

carl sandburg: his life, his poetry, his cause

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5x1xQ8NBqw

William Haskins · Apr 2, 2014

some gwendolyn brooks:

brooks reading "a song in the front yard":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWA6V3OaoR8
"gwendolyn brooks: essential american poets":

Archival recordings of former poet laureate Brooks, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded January 19, 1961, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/audioitem/576

Ken · Apr 3, 2014

"Quaker Graveyard" - Robert Lowell
(recited by one and the same)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqx6jd_robert-lowell-the-quaker-graveyard-in-nantucket_creation

Xelebes · Apr 3, 2014

Pierre Berton interviewing Robert Service about his book of poems "Songs of a Sourdough."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytTmHJb5DSk

William Haskins · Apr 3, 2014

charles simic reads "stone":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XODm-0K9TK4

Ken · Apr 4, 2014

William Haskins said:
charles simic reads "stone"

Pretty cool.

Was that him though?

Said, "Narrator: Garrison Keller," in the credits, rather speedily.

May be mistaken.

Xelebes said:
Pierre Berton interviewing Robert Service about his book of poems "Songs of a Sourdough."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytTmHJb5DSk

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

:-(

William Haskins · Apr 4, 2014

Ken said:
Pretty cool.

Was that him though?

Said, "Narrator: Garrison Keller," in the credits, rather speedily.

May be mistaken.

keillor is providing the narration at the front. the poem is read by simic.

Ken · Apr 4, 2014

William Haskins said:
keillor is providing the narration at the front. the poem is read by simic.

oh

postscript: thnx for the link in any event

will have to further investigate this simic of yours

Xelebes · Apr 4, 2014

Ken said:
"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

:-(

Hm, CBC does do that.

Magdalen · Apr 4, 2014

This is a Very Cool Thread. . .

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