Speaking of Poetry...

[jjhunter]

lynnoconnacht's post on Thursday re: 'She Walks In Beauty' included a link a beautiful rendition of the poem set to music. Online and off line most of us are accustomed to encountering poetry on the page or the screen, but poetry started as a spoken medium. For this upcoming week, I'm interested in sharing recordings of poems that I'll be performing myself. If anyone wants to join in, it would be wonderful to have a co-Host or two. No prior experience required, nor much in the way of fancy equipment; if you have access to a Mac like me, you can use the app Garageband which comes free with the computer. LibriVox has some good information for anyone looking for more tips on how to get started & other free software you can use.

In order for this to work, however, we need poems to record, recite, perform, declaim, spill forth from our tongues and hearts, and it would be most fun to do so with poems submitted by the audience. Any poem which has not yet been posted in full here at the comm is eligible. Please comment here with the text or a link to the text of any poem or poems you'd be interested in nominating, and don't be shy about putting forth your own work if you're comfortable with doing so.

ETA: old recordings (yours or others') of poetry are also welcome.

Comments

[jjhunter]

That would be awesome with awesome sauce. I would very much enjoy reading such a post!

(Hm. And you know, if you had time to write & post it tomorrow, it would make an excellent transition from the end of your week for hosting--for which you've done a marvelous job, thank you so much--and this upcoming week...)

[lynnoconnacht]

It probably wouldn't be much more informational than the ones I posted this week. Non-fiction was never my strong point.

And I can write it right now and then share it tomorrow if that works? (And you're very welcome! I'm glad I did all right! *was nervous*)

[jjhunter]

Heh. I'm not sure what time zone you're in -- it's 5:30 am-ish Sunday right now for me, so it's already technically 'tomorrow' here. ;o)

No need to be nervous; when someone goes above and beyond to volunteer to host a week, I have tremendous respect for that whatever stage they're at in regards to reading, writing, or reccing poetry. I think you've done a particularly nice job, and I don't give such feedback lightly.

[lynnoconnacht]

Early. ^-^ It's noonish here, so I figured we were talking about Monday. >>

Awww, thank you. *blush* Most of my nerves seem to stem from just not being very good at introductions and they weren't too bad. (Yay! I'm improving! ^-^)