I’ve been roped into invited to become a contributing author at Nic S.’s new companion site to Whale Sound called Voice Alpha, “a repository for thoughts, theories, suggestions, likes and dislikes and anything else related to the art and science of reading poetry aloud for an audience.”
The idea came out of our conversation last week, though I didn’t expect Nic to jump on it right away! But jump she has, and I am only the first of what I hope will be a whole posse of regular contributors. Check out in particular “Why don’t they teach us to read & What makes a poetry reading fail?” and “On looking (or not) at your audience when you read poetry.” If you have any reflections on the art of reading poetry, either as reader or as audience, we’d love to hear from you.
OK, roped into! But you really wanted to do it – admit it! Thanks for everything, N
It’s always fun to be able to help a new web project get off the ground. I expect I’ll find more things to post as time goes on, too, but I am hoping that some of the other people you’ve contacted will look at my contributions to the site and say to themselves, “I can do better than that!“