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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 phone line, 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:

• NEW live recordings of Colorado poets reading their own poetry at the last Poets' Co-op Open Reading Series (106 new audio files just posted)
• The Audio Archives of Colorado poets (sorted by by name) reading their own poetry (sorted by title) at past Poets' Co-op Open Readings (over 800 poems currently posted)
• TheTop 10 downloaded poetry mp3's from the Poets' Co-op's vast collection of free mp3's at www.mp3poetry.com.
• 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  live broadcasts on CCTV54 in Louisville, Colorado.

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FEATURED SPOKEN WORD ARTISTS:

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• 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 orignal 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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• 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 Womans 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 offerd 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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• Norak Drogan's spoken word piece, Broken (so real and honest it will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck.) You can hear & read more of his work at his personal web site: http://www.geocities.com/ndrogan.







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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 website.
• He created a very cool mix of his own music and samples from variuos 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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