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Poetry on YouTube
Been on a bit of poetry kick this week and have been surprised to see all of the good materials on YouTube. Here’s a selection of some of the better video that I’ve come across. As you can imagine, most of the best stuff available relates to the American Beats:
Allen Ginsberg - “Ballad of the Skeletons” (click on link for better audio)
Billy Collins - “The Dead”
Jack Kerouac - Explaining why he wrote on the road…
William S. Burroughs - “Thanksgiving Prayer”
Oscar Wilde - Tribute Animation (also, here is audio of him reading some lines from Ballad of Reading Gaol)
Some more are listed over here at MeFi though many of the links are dead.
While there are lots of great poetry pages on the web, the Poetry Archive is one of the most continually compelling. The site features historical and modern recordings of poets reading their poems, incluing the likes of Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg.
The site has lesson plans for teachers, a children’s corner, glossaries and many excellent links. Slightly edgier teachers/students may also wish to check out some of the best “alternative” poetry and arts pages on the web: ubuweb and greylodge.
