Poetry

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Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities

This AVAnnotate project explores the final annual Sound Institute of the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership, Re-Sounding Poetries: Collections, Classrooms, Communities, at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, in Kelowna, in May 2025. Over four days, poets, professors, archivists, artists, librarians, and researchers participated in a “summer camp” of immersive literary-audio activities. During the SpokenWeb Collections Showcase—where each […]

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Enough Said Reading Series

The “Enough Said Reading Series” is an AVAnnotate project by SpokenWeb that provides a digital edition of Montreal spoken-word events from 1994–1996. It features individual event pages (with performer line-ups and open-mic details), compilation reels, and an oral-history interview, along with commentary from recent community “watch parties.” What’s especially interesting is the 2025 watch-party model:

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Literary Sound Studies Anthology: English 483, University of Alberta

“Literary Sound Studies: English 483 Class Anthology” is a student-created AVAnnotate project in collaboration with Sam Turner that compiles course projects into a public anthology. It focuses on how literature is performed and heard, using time-coded annotations to analyze voice, rhythm, silence, and audience in recordings of poems and performances. The variety is striking: students

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Voices: Micro-editions of Readings by Marlatt, McClure, and Rukeyser

Edited by Tanya Clement, Emily Murphy, Karis Shearer, Trent Wintermeier, and Matthew Kilbane, the micro-editions gathered here include Michael McClure reading from his book Ghost Tantras; Muriel Rukeyser reading a poem-sequence that shares a title with her poetry collection The Speed of Darkness; and Daphne Marlatt reading from her first collection of poems leaf leaf/s

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