Poetry – AVAnnotate

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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Furious Flower Poetry Center Transcriptions

These transcripts of video recordings from the Furious Flower Collection at James Madison University in Harrisburg Virginia were created by Evan Sizemore. The recordings from Furious Flower document interviews and readings by major African American poets, among them Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, and Major Jackson, accompanied by contextualizing information about them.

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Anne Sexton, Sweetbriar College, 1966

This an annotated recording featuring Anne Sexton reading at Sweetbriar in 1966. The recording is held as part of the Anne Sexton Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. The annotations were created by Dr. Tanya Clement.

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