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November 21, 2008

Get Your Orality On.

Drawing by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, author of Working Class Represent.

-- Get On The Griot Trail with Bob Holman and Papa Susso in West Africa. Mr. Holman is traveling around Africa with his griot pal Susso to film endangered languages.

-- While you are getting your orality on, check out the online Walter J. Ong Collection at Saint Louis University.

-- Play this clip of Lowell Fulson at full volume and get your grind on something.

-- I'll admit it:I have every version of Ron Mann's 1982 documentary Poetry in Motion: VHS, CD-ROM, DVD, LaserDisk. Get this clip on, by the collective sound poetry group The Four Horsemen, remains a favorite. (It's out of sync, I know.)

-- Get your Poetry magazine on with its November issue, with a Visual Poetry Today section edited by Schenectady resident Geof Huth.

-- I'd be remiss not to get my self-promotion on and link to this post of group sound poems composed by my students last Spring at The College of Saint Rose.

Posted by Daniel Nester on November 21, 2008 at 09:31 AM in Daniel Nester | Permalink

Tags: Bob Holman, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Daniel Nester, Geof Huth, Lowell Fulson, Ron Mann, The College of Saint Rose, The Four Horsemen, Walter J. Ong

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