Monday, April 7, 2008

Great Resources for April's National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry month and the American Academy of Poets offers some amazing resources at poets.org with recordings, bios, events,and poem-a-day deliveries into your email.

The Library of Congress, NEA, and other partners have funded another media-rich project called The Favorite Poem project which hosts videos of American reciting their favorite poems: http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Want to participate by recording a poem you've written or read? You can do so through a free service call Gabcast. A channel we've set up for National Poetry Month is called Necessary Angels after a poem by Wallace Stevens. To listen to recordings, go to gabcast.com and search by Necessary Angel or the channel number which is 18857. You can listen to recordings there.

If you want to create a recording for this channel, call 1.800.749.0632. When asked for the channel number, enter 18857# and when asked for the password, enter 42008#.

There is no cost to create a recording (only cost to you is cell minutes if you are on a cell phone).

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