Unstressed » videos http://linebreak.org/blog A weblog from the editors of Linebreak Sun, 08 May 2011 07:06:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Moving Poems http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/11/11/moving-poems/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/11/11/moving-poems/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:20:21 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=1419 Dave Bonta’s Moving Poems blog is a wonderful source of video adaptations, animations, and readings of poems. For a sample, try these clips of Anne Sexton reading and talking about her work.

]]> http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/11/11/moving-poems/feed/ 0 Irving on the future of the book http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/11/09/irving-on-the-future-of-the-book/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/11/09/irving-on-the-future-of-the-book/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:09:07 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=1413 Were he starting out as a novelist in today’s publishing world, John Irving would be tempted to shoot himself. But he still believes that books have a future.

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More things in the world should be designed to delight.

]]> http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/10/14/design-to-delight/feed/ 0 A sonnet a day http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/08/17/a-sonnet-a-day/ http://linebreak.org/blog/2009/08/17/a-sonnet-a-day/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:44:32 +0000 Johnathon Williams http://linebreak.org/blog/?p=1237 From Adam Tessier comes Our Daily Sonnet, a cool new project that promises to post a daily video reading of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, each by a different reader. Adam describes it thus:

The project came out of a terrible cold I had a week ago — I was home sick from work and my eyes were bothering me and rather than read the sonnets as I was planning to do all day as part of my homework for Bennington I thought I’d listen to them on Youtube or something first, before going to the text when I felt better — surely there must be videos of people reading these poems out there. There are a few, but I realized quickly, not nearly enough.

Adam’s posted six so far, and he’s looking for more. If you’d like to submit a video, email ourdailysonnet [at] gmail [dot] com.

Adam’s poem “Jacob’s Dream” appeared on Linebreak on Nov. 11.

via YouTube – Sonnet 5.

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Here’s my vote for the creepiest of the bunch, Dylan Thomas reading “Poem in October:”

(via Kottke)

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