[New-Poetry] reading styles

[TheOldMole]

Is there a disco remix?

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> 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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