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03/14/11

Just in time for our 2011 reading season, a couple of links to advice for reading poetry aloud.

• Poetry Out Loud is a U.S. school competition where students read the poems of others. In a National Endowment for the Arts video, several Poetry Out Loud judges give advice to other judges on what makes a successful reading. This is useful information for all readers.

• Voice Alpha is a website related to “the art and science of reading poetry aloud for an audience.” Nic Sebastian(the reader on the site Whale Sound) writes “10 Things I Learned about Giving Poetry Readings.” Explore the Voice Alpha site for lots more information about reading poetry.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that Vancouver Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo was a poet!

Links to useful resources

We also are including a few links to poetry resources that are available on the web. Generally, these sites are content-rich and have something informative, educational or illuminating to share about poetry.

• Pandora’s Collective:   Based in Vancouver, B.C. Pandora’s Collective keeps their finger on the pulse of all literary events in the Lower Mainland. They list local writer’s groups and writing workshops in addition to open mic events, poetry readings around Vancouver, and local book launch dates. This is a great site for listings in and around Vancouver.

• poetry.com:   One of the most popular internet sites features annual poetry contests with some prizes worth thousands. They also have an online rhyming dictionary, a list of poetic techniques to improve writing and details on how to self-publish your own book of poetry.

• poets.org:   The official website associated with the Academy of American Poets features serious and historically important American poets. A wealth of information is presented: for example, reading recommendations by America’s top poets, dozens of essays on writing by the world’s greatest poets, an excellent audio archive by the who’s who of 20th century poetry, and excellent resources for educators of poetry. Highly recommended.

• poetryfoundation.org The website for the monthly Poetry Magazine, publishes work by serious, emerging poets as well as established writers. The website works hand-in-glove with the paper and every month features poems that appear in that month’s issue. In addition, they also review books and reprint essays on writing, interviews and archived articles that appeared in the magazine over the past 96 years (founded in 1912). Again well worth visiting.