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 Video Poetry: Illinois Poets Reading Their Work 

The 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

David Etter:
"The House Party"   The House Party Video The House Party Audio
"Singing in the Toyota" Singing in the Toyota HTML Singing in the Toyota Video Singing in the Toyota Audio
"Kirby Quakenbush" Kirby Quakenbush HTML Kirby Quakenbush Video Kirby Quakenbush Audio

David Hernandez and Street Sounds:
"David Hernandez and Street Sounds" David Hernandez and Street Sounds    

Allison Funk:
"On Pruning"   "On Pruning" - Video  
"On the Prairie"   "On the Prairie" - Video  
"The Deer"   "The Deer" - Video  

Susan Hahn:
"Oh Baby Oh"   "Oh Baby Oh" - Video "Oh Baby Oh" - Audio
"Pity Song in Solo Voice without Accompaniment"   "Pity Song in Solo Voice without Accompaniment" - Video "Pity Song in Solo Voice without Accompaniment" - Audio
"Pity Dance for a Small Troop"   "Pity Dance for a Small Troop" - Video "Pity Dance for a Small Troop" - Audio

Rodney Jones:
"A Blasphemy"   "A Blasphemy" - Video "A Blasphemy" - Audio
"The Masters"   "The Masters" - Video "The Masters" - Audio

Allison Joseph:
"Learning The Blues" Learning The Blues HTML Learning The Blues Video "Learning The Blues" - Audio
"In The Book Store" In The Book Store HTML In The Book Store Video "In The Book Store" - Audio
"Traitor" Traitor HTML Traitor Video "Traitor" - Audio

Laurence Lieberman:
"Hardhat Limbo" Hardhat Limbo HTML Hardhat Limbo Video Hardhat Limbo Audio
"Hour of the Mango Black Moon"   "Hour of the Mango Black Moon" - Video "Hour of the Mango Black Moon" - Audio

Kevin Stein:
"First Performance of the Rock 'n' Roll Band Puce Exit"   "First Performance of the Rock 'n' Roll Band Puce Exit" - Video "First Performance of the Rock 'n' Roll Band Puce Exit" - Audio
"Tract"   "Tract" - Video "Tract" - Audio
"An American Tale of Sex and Death"   "An American Tale of Sex and Death" - Video "An American Tale of Sex and Death" - Audio

Christian Wiman:
"Hard Night"   "Hard Night" - Video  
"Being Serious"   "Being Serious" - Video  
"Why He Doesn't Keep a Journal"   "Why He Doesn't Keep a Journal" - Video  

Demetrice Worley:
"Coming to Know Things"   "Coming to Know Things" - Video "Coming to Know Things" - Audio
"Sandra"   "Sandra" - Video "Sandra" - Audio

These poets were recorded in April 2002 at Bradley University, during a reading featuring some contributors to Illinois Voices: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Poetry (University of Illinois Press, 2001)

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