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Poet Laureate’s website also introduces video clips of Illinois poets
reading from their work. In this way you, as a website visitor, actually
see and hear these poets performing some of their most representative
works. This moves the poem beyond the mere page and into the dynamic
realm of auditory and visual imagination. Just as importantly, doing
so extends the poets’ (and their poems’) reach beyond simple boundaries
of space and time, allowing you to be virtually in the presence of
art without regard to location or hour of day. One might well consider
these video clips as the vital frontier of the twenty-first century’s
new poetic geography, a locale where technology enables poet, poem,
and reader to interact in the fashion Horace described within the
pages of his classic Ars Poetica as early as 8 B.C. In sum, these
videos accentuate the interplay between personal and communal acts
of poetic performance.
You will need to download and install RealPlayer to play the audio and video clips on this page. |
For more video poetry, go to http://www.bradley.edu/poet/video/index.shtml
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