The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total audio visual collection.
Woodberry poetry room harvard.
The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total collection.
The woodberry s inimitable audio archive was inaugurated with the harvard recording of t.
Eliot reading gerontion and the hollow men in 1930.
The woodberry poetry room is teaming up with the harvard map collection and our colleague lynn sayers to explore the possibility of creating a digital version of a popular lamont library map exhibit produced several years ago by chris lenney and lynn sayers.
The harvard square lit map is an invitation to explore the literary history of cambridge massachusetts and to experience the presence of a plurality of times the lit map is a collaborative atlas created by lynn sayers and chris lenney of lamont library in conjunction with the woodberry poetry room.
Each year the woodberry poetry room creative fellowship invites poets writers multimedia artists and scholars of contemporary poetry to propose creative projects that would benefit from the resources available in the room and to generate new work that further actualizes the poetry room s collections.
Please assist us in expanding the literary map of harvard square by suggesting names and past addresses.
It features selections from our on going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media associated with the harvard vocarium and other early poetry room recording initiatives as well as born digital recordings from our recent poetry room events.
The woodberry poetry room is a special collections reading room and audio visual archive at harvard university.
But first we need your help.
An installation by zachary sifuentes april 6th may 3rd the woodberry poetry room lamont library.
Harry levin later reflected that its opening was a kind of declaration that harvard was officially recognizing modern poetry.
Poetry harvard represents a vital nexus of poetry related courses library collections events organizations publications and pedagogy at harvard university.
The creative fellow receives a stipend of 4 000 and a harvard library special borrower.
Founded in honor of poet scholar and harvard graduate george edward woodberry 1855 1930 the poetry room first opened its doors on the third floor of widener library in may 1931.
From written text to audio and visual recordings to live readings and events.
The poetry room offers students faculty scholars and members of the public a comprehensive experience of the art form.
Poetry harvard is a site of collaborative interchange and like all great.
