Oregon Poetic Voices, Year 2

About This Grant

This project will create a central archive of recorded poetry by Oregon poets that is accessible to the public. This archive is needed to provide wide-ranging access to Oregon's rich poetic heritage, to maintain a record of poetry in performance and a means for the interpretation of these poems, and to serve as a vital teaching tool for educators across the state. The goals in the second year of "Oregon Poetic Voices" will be to further develop and make permanent the program, to create additional recording "studios" across the state, and to greatly increase the number of recorded materials used for the project. This project will continue to develop and administer poetry workshops around the state; to continue to digitize existing recordings available to Lewis & Clark College Special Collections for which there is copyright clearance; and to continue to update and improve the web page (www.oregonpoeticvoices.org), which allows the state's poets, teachers, and students to have access to all the posted materials, and is also available for access by the visually impaired.