I admit I'm late coming to it, but I've started. There are many arguments in favor of spoken word, poetry readings, and author readings-all of which we all are aware of. But I didn't know, and only now have found out, how easy it is and how effective voiced poetry is.
The next best thing is that it is essentially free-in the idea that if you are reading this news item you already have the ability to do it yourself for free.
Today I put audio and video files on the page containing my most popular poem, "Mother's death." Over the next few days I will put up audio and video on an other dozen poem pages. After that I will work on putting audio on every poetry page I have, 116 at the moment.
I hope and expect others will also join in putting audio and video on their poetry pages. A previous article of mine explains about doing video. I will be putting up a article on doing audio. It is much easier than video.
Please check out "Mother's Death" and then send a link to it and this news item to your friends who are readers and writers. Let's make it easy to hear one another reading our poems aloud at the World's Largest Poetry Reading, aka internet. .......Peace, henry......
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