[New-Poetry] reading styles

[jforjames at aol.com]

http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/04/10/poet_speak/

To the untrained ear, all poets may sound the same, but poets have voiced a wide range of styles for centuries. Yeats exemplifies what we'll call the "sing-song" voice. Anecdotal theories trace it to influential European poets with accented English, and some think the voice took on new dimensions during the drug-induced stupors of the beatnik era. And then there's the jazz remix of the poet voice, popular in the spoken word world. 


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