The woodberry poetry room is a special collections reading room and audio visual archive at harvard university.
Woodberry poetry room harvard.
From written text to audio and visual recordings to live readings and events.
Please assist us in expanding the literary map of harvard square by suggesting names and past addresses.
An installation by zachary sifuentes april 6th may 3rd the woodberry poetry room lamont library.
The woodberry poetry room s audio collection comprises over 6 000 recordings including unique recordings produced by the poetry room and the harvard department of english early collaborative recordings made in conjunction with the british council as well as the audio archives of the academy of american poets and the aspen writers conference.
Eliot reading gerontion and the hollow men in 1930.
The woodberry s inimitable audio archive was inaugurated with the harvard recording of t.
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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.
Located in lamont library and overseen by houghton library the poetry room features.
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.
Poetry harvard is a site of collaborative interchange and like all great.
The poetry room offers students faculty scholars and members of the public a comprehensive experience of the art form.
The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total collection.
The online highlights feature selections from our on going digitization of fragile phonodiscs and magnetic media as well as born digital recordings from our recent poetry room events.
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.
The listening booth represents a small portion of the woodberry poetry room s total audio visual collection.
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.
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.
