12/19/2023 0 Comments Sad soft music for poetry recitation![]() This list is comprised of the shows that allowed me to hear the emotion behind their words. It is an essential aspect of poetry that we dwell on the rhythm and imagery of the language, not being distracted by rattling microphones or boring lines of questioning. Poetry podcasting is where the innovation exists.Įach podcast on this list pushes the edge of convention, rethinking clichés and creating an expansive listening experience as a result. Instead, the genre is filled with half-hearted interviews, bad audio quality, and tired formats. You would think the myriad of shows featuring interviews with novelists and the reading of short stories would make their overall standard higher: the good ones must try harder to keep a fickle audience interested. The general dislike, even fear, of poetry, combined with the difficulty of adapting it for the ear, might account for why there are far fewer podcasts about poetry than there are about fiction. ![]() Is a song a poem? Can a text message be a poem? What about the scrawl in the bathroom stall of your local bar? The boundaries of poetry are fluid, much like those of podcasting.īut it requires a certain type of vision to take a piece of art, especially one that relies so heavily on its written structure to convey meaning, and turn it into an exclusively audible experience. I won’t try to put a figure on the number of poems that have ever been written, mostly because of the indefinable nature of the form itself. According to Podcast Index, there are currently over four million published podcasts. As with those who declare they can’t bear listening to podcasts, we could ask whether they simply haven’t stumbled across the right one yet.
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