This program encourages high school students to memorize and perform great poems. Poetry Out Loud invites the dynamic aspects of slam poetry,spoken word and theater into the English class. This exciting program helps students master public speaking skills, build confidence, and learn about their literary heritage.
Category Archives: Poetry Reading
Poetry Reading: Free Verse: Erasure Poetry Festival
Taking cues from the art world, a new breed of poets has been composing by erasing portions of existing texts. The results can be astounding and moving as a commentary on the original and something wholly new. Join us as the poets “reveal” their processes and read their work. Copresented by Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poems including Modern Life (Graywolf Press), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, was published by Tin House Books in 2009. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, will be published by McSweeney’s in May. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
Janet Holmes is author of five books of poetry, most recently The Ms of My Kin (Shearsman), an erasure of The Poems of Emily Dickinson. She is a professor in the MFA Program at Boise State University, where she is also editor and director of Ahsahta Press.
Travis Macdonald’s first book, an erasure of The 9/11 Commission Report titled The O Mission Repo, is available from Fact-Simile Editions. His second full-length collection, Nostradamus, was released by BlazeVox Books in late 2010. He currently lives, works and writes in the Philadelphia area.
Poetry Reading: NOX, presented by O, Miami Poetry Festival
Excerpts from NOX, presented by O, Miami Poetry Festival. The Moore Building in Miami’s Design District, April 7, 2011.Text by Anne Carson, Choreography by Rashaun Mitchell in collaboration with Silas Riener. Sound by Ben Miller. Lighting and Production Design by Davison Scandrett. Performed by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Ben Miller, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener.
http://www.omiami.org
Poetry Ready: Amiri Baraka – San Francisco International Poetry Festival
{Jul 29 12} As part of the San Francisco International Poetry Festival, Amiri Baraka reads from his poetry at The Emerald Tablet in San Francisco’s North Beach. http://sfipf.org/
Shake The Dust (East) – Poet Interviews
Some short informal interviews with Shake the Dust Poet Coaches Molly Naylor, Ross Sutherland, Drew Taylor, and Russell J Turner.
SHAKE THE DUST – a national celebration of young people’s voices and the power of spoken word. As Olympic and Paralympic athletes train, young people from across the country will work with leading spoken word artists to share their stories and find their voices through slam poetry. Get ready for summer 2012 when they’ll take the stage and shake the dust.
Poetry Reading: Keorapetse Kgositsile @poesiefestival berlin 2009
Keorapetse Kgositsile (born 1938 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is not only a poet and political activist, but was also one of the first members of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1960s and 70s. From 1962 to 1975 he lived in exile in the USA. As a central figure among African-American poets, he was instrumental in bringing Africa into the limelight in the 1970s, as well as gaining much attention for poetry as performance. He was one of the first to overcome the gulf between African poetry and Black poetry in the USA, thus becoming one of the most important poets in the Pan-African movement. The video is showing a reading he did at poetry festival Berlin 2009, organized by Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Pop-Up Poets reading in the NYC Subway
Pop-Up Poets reading in the NYC Subway. Film by Ram Devineni. Featuring Jon Sands
LA-based Street Poets
With the motto of “One Street, One Heartbeat, One Love,” LA-based Street Poets teaches young people how to develop their poetic voice and share their feelings about life on the street, in schools, and in juvenile detention facilities. By giving them an artistic outlet for expression, Street Poets empowers Los Angeles County youth to transcend self-destructive lifestyles and creatively transform both lives and communities.
explore™ (http://explore.org) is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Both educational and inspirational, explore creates a portal into the soul of humanity by championing the selfless acts of others.
Distributed by Tubemogul.
Spoken Word Poetry “The Girl” Official Video
Performed by Kristine Juntura
Directed & Produced by Kenneth Camara
POETRY READING BY JANE HIRSHFIELD — Poetry Center at Smith College
POETRY READING BY JANE HIRSHFIELD — Poetry Center at Smith College
Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Come, Thief (2011).
