WELCOME TO OUR AUDIO ARCHIVE

Here you will find hundreds of spoken word sound files (all are in are in MP3 format) and even video clips of poets' reading original works in their own voices. They are all free for your downloading pleasure. (Some of these are big files so if you are on a slow connection, it is best to save them to your hard drive first, and then open them in your MP3 player software).

Help yourself to any of the following free audio MP3 files:

• Live recordings of regional and national featured poets reading their own poetry at the Poets' Co-op Open Reading Series.
• Our Audio Archives of poets reading their own poetry at past Poets' Co-op Open Readings (featuring over 1000 easily searchable mp3 formatted recordings).
• Our podcast of featured reader sets and/or videos.
• The Poets' Co-op TV Show featuring national and regional poets reading on the air at CCTV54 in East Boulder County, Colorado.
• A special tribute the poets wrote and read for Tom Katsimpalis, former curator of the Loveland Museum and long time friend of the Poets' Co-op.
• A special multimedia tribute in memory of artist Gene Hoffman!
• Also try www.videopoetry.org to watch excerpts from or to download full podcast videos of past Poet's Co-op TV Show  broadcasts on CCTV54 in Louisville, Colorado.

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FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS:

• M. D. Friedman's experimental studio recordings (recorded at Mad Dog Music Studio):
  1. The Word - It's a digital poem.  It's like a digital art, experimental sound, moving text animation experience. 
  2. Why - a 156 kb MP3 file.
  3. Against My Will - an experimental, studio piece ( a 500 kb MP3 file).
  4. Time for Gertein Strude for Gertrude Stein - - an experimental, studio piece (a 1269 kb MP3 file).
  5. Slow Blues in A What? - if a harmonica could write a poem, what would it sound like? (a 747 kb MP3 file).
  6. Icarus with an original sound track by Railton Matthew (a 3507 kb MP3 file).
     

 

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• Jared Smith's spoken word CD's are reminiscent of Ken Nordine's classic "Word Jazz", but with ever more skillfully crafted poetry.  Please enjoy these selections from his first CD, Seven Minutes Before the Bomb Drops.
1. Human Genome Project
2. Mr. Peabody's Estate
3. Seven Minutes Before the Bomb Drops

 

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• SpyraclypticAnalgesia, a collaboration between Sharon Brown (Poet) & Martin Turner (Sound Designer) is a beautiful thing. Thank you Sharon & Martin for making this available.
  

 

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• Jeffrey Ethan Lee's collection of free poetry audio files in support of his various spoken word projects.  You may also want to view the video from his Poet's Co-op Tv Show performance.  It was truly awesome!
1. invisible sister
2. The Sylf
3. identity papers

 

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• Sher Christian's poetry and John Christian's original music from their 2007 CD, Sweet Tongue:
1. In Celebration of Poets - a 1,506 kb MP3 file.
2. Gator Zen - a 2,728 kb MP3 file.
3. Wild Woman's Beat - a 3,535 kb MP3.

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• Rich Furman's poems from his book Jazz and Some Sorrow (recorded at Mad Dog Music Studio).
1. Five a.m. reading poems - a 681 kb MP3 file.
2. Jazz and some sorrow - a special MP3 with the Mad Dog accompanying Rich on blues harp (1,877 kb).
3. As thick as skulls - a 1,018 kb MP3 file featuring the Mad Dog backing Rich's reading on kalimba.
4. I love you - a 813 kb MP3 file.
5. Lost in the face of the universe - a 1,003 kb MP3 file.
6. I Love You As Thick As Skulls - an accidental audio double exposure of two of the above poems offered as an experiment in sound art (813 kb).

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• Heather Haley, poet, performer & musician, has been described as "A Canadian national treasure."  (Kurt Heintzis).  In her video poem, Purple Lipstick, (2006). "Voice, music and imagery fuse together perfectly, creating a kind of hypnosis." - George Aguilar   Her offering here at www.mp3poetry.org  represents "A unique and sublime fusion of new song and spoken word." -ZULA Presents
  1. Remain

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• Paul Gutierrez's primary artistic focus is poetry. His poems utilize a variety of poetic structures and themes. He enjoys drawing, painting, and photography which help to cross pollinate his poetry. His poem, "Cloak," a double rhyming sestina with reverb, is offered here for your trance trance inducing inducing pleasure pleasure.  Be sure to also listen archived recordings of him reading his poetry at the Poets' Co-op Open Readings.

1. Cloak
2. Cage Raised

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• Kimberly Keck is a poet and spoken word artist from St. Paul, Minnesota.  Her work, both personal and starkly honest, shows rare wisdom &insight for her age. Her poetry depicts her journey from places of darkness into the light.

1. From the Ground and...
2. Abstract .3
3. St. Liar

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• Kim Williard Whipple writes the following about this wonderful performance of his poem The Inferno: Something awakened inside recently when a very dear friend moved my poverty from the page into spoken word, suddenly I felt and heard the power of the medium and had to at least push this one small verse to the table to be shared by the world ...

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• Fergus Gleeson is from Wales, UK and who has recently stumbled upon poetry. He would like to sincerely thank all of the poets who have contributed to this web site.
• He created a very cool mix of his own music and samples from various poets here at the Poets' Co-op! You may listen to Fergus' work by clicking here.
  • Sampled work includes:

  I Am What I Am (with Katherine West reading the second voice) by John Blair

  Touches by Deborah Russell

  The Continent Never Ends by Diana L. Royce

  You Make Coffee by Deborah Russell

  Talking About Gravity by Mark Rosoff

  The Volcanic Sky Has Cooled by Katherine West

  Nothing by Mark Rosoff

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• Todd Heldt's CD Walking Again is a great collection of 24 poems professionally recorded over the span of a year in Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; and Chicago, Illinois. (This CD offers over 45 minutes of poetry read live or accompanied by ambient sounds. Several free samples (in MP3 format) of Todd's CD (as well as the CD) are available for your listening pleasure at http://heldt.tripod.com/ORDER.html).

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