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Contemporary Performance Poetry

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Title	Contemporary Performance Poetry
Performer(s)	Collom, Jack
Subject 1	Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Subject 2	Performance poetry
Abstract	Jack Collom leads a lecture in which he discusses performing poetry. The lecture largely focuses on giving advice for poetry readings, covering topics such as mindset, breath, voice, confidence, and making mistakes.
Content	0:00:01 Class begins with an ice-breaker exercise 0:04:55 Collom discusses poetry and performance and reading poetry, beginning by looking at some of his own experience with poetry readings at St. Mark’s Church and getting in the mindset for reading; tips for giving a good poetry reading 0:29:56 Opens the floor up for questions; student asks about Ginsberg’s comment to Bernadette Mayer during her reading; question is asked about breathing technique 0:37:28 Collom discusses the approach for reading poetry of picking out one member of the audience to have in mind while reading – read to them; more tips on performing 0:39:39 Discusses different ways to think of performance poetry 0:48:55 Student asks about being loose versus being tight before a reading 0:50:14 Student asks about Collom’s comment about alcohol or drugs before performance 0:51:39 Student asks about changing feelings during a performance 0:54:50 Question is asked about the difficulties of performing prose 1:00:43 Collom plays a performance piece, “Pandoric Brain” 1:17:40 Discussion of breath 1:20:43 Commentary on the “Pandoric Brain” piece 1:30:40 Collom gives an assignment for the next class period; tape cuts out 1:34:02 Tape cuts back in to Collom introducing a William Carlos Williams’ “Young Sycamore”; asks students to mark the accents; Collom reads the poem; student reads the poem; another student reads the poem 1:45:55 Collom discusses making mistakes in a poetry reading 1:51:38 Another student reads “Young Sycamore”; continued discussion of the poem; another student reads the poem; continued discussion of the piece 2:03:53 Collom asks for comments about performing; student comments on being recorded; student talks about meter and rhythm; discussion of the ancient oral tradition; discussion continues to the end of audio at 2:11:20
Type of Event	workshop
Date Recorded	1989-07-24
File Format	.mp3
Performance Length	2:11:20
Rights Information	Copyright release given to Naropa University for the purposes of preservation, marketing and educational use. All other rights reserved to individual performers.
Department	Writing
Original Format	Audio cassette
Tape Order	1 and 2 of 2
Publisher	Allen Ginsberg Library and Naropa University Archives
Type	Sound
Language	eng
File Name	89P118.mp3

Contemporary Performance Poetry

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