A Laurable Poetry Weblog

2006-04-30T13:09:00.000-04:00

The White House Correspondents' Dinner (with Stephen Colbert): C-Span [dot ORG] that the whole family will enjoy!

2006-03-31T14:15:00.000-05:00

Who knew? Reality beats out Behrle's sardonic poetry movement - the New Sincerity.

2006-03-31T13:33:00.000-05:00

I had never noticed that quietudinous had become the for the apologist keyword for the post-avant sensitive. There is a T-Shirt available too. Is tete-a-t-shirt the new way to knock your favorite idiom into the lexicon.

2006-03-31T12:13:00.000-05:00

I have finally found the sports commentary equivalent of C-SPAN [dot ORG] with TheYoungTurks dot COM. Some might argue they are a mix between sports commentary and Mystery Science Theatre 3000, but I never cared for the later. Does MST3 have post [hearing/game/movie] commentary?

2006-03-30T17:48:00.000-05:00

Historic Audio: From the Archives of the Poetry Society of America, available in realaudio at WPS1 dot ORG. Tons of stuff!

2006-03-30T17:38:00.000-05:00

The Life And Times Of Wilfred Owen, a realvideo lecture available at Gresham dot AC dot UK.

2006-03-30T15:55:00.000-05:00

Wikipedia dot ORG is requesting assistance with their Language Poetry entry, specifically that the introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. While you are there, several poets also need entries.

2006-03-29T21:02:00.000-05:00

Poet search page for CommonWealth dot ORG which features long form audio.

2006-02-07T14:47:00.000-05:00

An mp3 audio segment of "Arthur the Rat"

a short tale devised to obtain phonetic representation from throughout the country of all phonemes in American English

from the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) at University of Wisconsin-Madison (listen).

2006-01-31T19:04:00.000-05:00

Olena Kalytiak Davis is this week's Journal Dispatcher at the PoetryFoundation dot ORG. (Future link at http://poetryfoundation.org/dispatches/journals/01.30.06.html .

2006-01-26T15:41:00.000-05:00

Poet's Corner: From The Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs by Stephen Dunn at HuffingtonPost dot COM

2005-12-22T18:18:00.000-05:00

A Dean Young reading at Blackbird dot VCU dot EDU (listen), March 3, 2005.

2005-12-20T13:44:00.000-05:00

Poet search results of PRX dot ORG (Public Radio Exchange) with a large variety of poetry audio available. The site requires a free registration.

2005-12-16T15:37:00.000-05:00

Just when I was about to swear off CSpan [dot ORG], I find FedNet dot Net with higher resolution and better floor debate and hearing coverage, however, the archives are a swamp.

2005-12-16T15:28:00.000-05:00

Congressman John D. Dingell (D - MI) recited a poem on the floor of the House about House Resolution 579 (Christmas should be protected), provided as a wmv file at Democrats dot House dot GOV (watch).

Twas the week before Christmas and all through the House
No bills were passed �bout which Fox News could grouse;
Tax cuts for the wealthy were passed with great cheer,
So vacations in St. Barts soon would be near;

2005-12-16T13:47:00.000-05:00

Voice of America provides a name pronunciation key with RealAudio files at Names dot VOA dot GOV. The index page provides search function and lookup features.

2005-12-08T17:07:00.000-05:00

Ernest Hilbert reviews the The Voice of the Poet series of W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, James Merrill, Five American Women Poets, and Robert Lowell at CPRW dot COM (Contemporary Poetry Review).

2005-12-08T12:46:00.000-05:00

Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture delivered December 7, 2005 is available at NobelPrize dot ORG (watch).

2005-11-22T19:04:00.000-05:00

During the November 15 edition of MobyLives Radio, a new daily mp3 broadcast, Dennis Loy Johnson interviews Alan Cordle, the guy behind Foetry dot COM, at MobyLives dot COM (mp3). The interview starts around 11:23. Unfortunately there is no archived post yet available.

2005-11-22T18:13:00.000-05:00

A quick blurb and small picture of the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site NationalGeographic dot COM.

2005-11-18T15:22:00.000-05:00

In-F!@#ing-fixes from Linguists Gone Wild at DeeperStructure dot BlogSpot dot COM.

2005-11-17T13:46:00.000-05:00

Xenophanes: Fragments and Commentary translated by Arthur Fairbanks at History dot Hanover dot EDU.

2005-11-17T12:37:00.000-05:00

The first poet search result from the new beta product Base dot Google dot COM is a fellow seeking a patron of the arts so [he] can finish working on three different books and continue my career as a poet. One of the books is a novel... .

2005-11-02T18:52:00.000-05:00

The Talk of the Town section in New Yorker dot COM, November 7, 2005, tells us about Brian Turner who has written a book of poems about the year he spent deployed as a sergent in Iraq.

2005-10-25T20:15:00.000-04:00

America's top 100 speeches and their accompanying mp3 streams at AmericanRhetoric dot COM.