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jjhunter ([personal profile] jjhunter) wrote in [community profile] poetree2011-12-03 05:55 pm
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Speaking of Poetry...

[personal profile] 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.
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Cool!

[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith 2011-12-04 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
This is a great idea. I encourage people to read poetry aloud, and listen to it, although I'm not into podcasts myself.

Feel free to use any of my published poems. There's a "poem" tag on my LiveJournal. Some that I think would be particularly good choices:

"Fair Maiden Meets Fierce Villain"

"The Snake Goddess"

"Stellar Spectres"

[personal profile] lynnoconnacht 2011-12-04 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
Neat! I love this idea! I hope it'll be a fun week for everyone. ^-^

Can I mention SpokenVerse's YouTube channel for obvious reasons? Well, considering I just mentioned them that's a rather redundant question, but I do hope it's a useful link to have!

(Also this musical arrangement for John Masefield's "Sea-Fever" purely to give another example of poetry set to music.)
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