Woodberry Poetry Room Harvard

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The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total collection. The creative fellow receives a stipend of 4 000 and a harvard library special borrower. The online highlights feature selections from our on going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media as well as born digital recordings from our recent poetry room events. Harry levin later reflected that its opening was a kind of declaration that harvard was officially recognizing modern poetry.

The woodberry poetry room s audio collection comprises over 6 000 recordings including unique recordings produced by the poetry room and the harvard department of english early collaborative recordings made in conjunction with the british council as well as the audio archives of the academy of american poets and the aspen writers conference. From written text to audio and visual recordings to live readings and events. The woodberry poetry room is teaming up with the harvard map collection and our colleague lynn sayers to explore the possibility of creating a digital version of a popular lamont library map exhibit produced several years ago by chris lenney and lynn sayers. The woodberry s inimitable audio archive was inaugurated with the harvard recording of t.

An installation by zachary sifuentes april 6th may 3rd the woodberry poetry room lamont library. Eliot reading gerontion and the hollow men in 1930. It features selections from our on going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media associated with the harvard vocarium and other early poetry room recording initiatives as well as born digital recordings from our recent poetry room events. Located in lamont library and overseen by houghton library the poetry room features.

Poetry harvard is a site of collaborative interchange and like all great. Each year the woodberry poetry room creative fellowship invites poets writers multimedia artists and scholars of contemporary poetry to propose creative projects that would benefit from the resources available in the room and to generate new work that further actualizes the poetry room s collections. The woodberry poetry room is a special collections reading room and audio visual archive at harvard university. The poetry room offers students faculty scholars and members of the public a comprehensive experience of the art form.

But first we need your help. The harvard square lit map is an invitation to explore the literary history of cambridge massachusetts and to experience the presence of a plurality of times the lit map is a collaborative atlas created by lynn sayers and chris lenney of lamont library in conjunction with the woodberry poetry room.