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For most people, the “poetry reading” conjures stuffy intonation styles, cheap wine in plastic cups, and polite clapping. But for a riotous underground scene in 1980s Montreal, the poetry reading was the site for radical experimentation in artistic performance

As April is the month of poetry, we’ve taken a pause in this year’s ShortCuts Live conversations to listen back to one of the first episodes of ShortCuts.

In this podcast, Adam Hammond asks if computers can help us to decide which readers are best at “doing” the voices in T. S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land.

This ShortCuts presents one of the ShortCuts Live! conversations recorded at the University of Alberta as part of the 2023 SpokenWeb Symposium. What will we hear? And where will these sounds take us?

Michelle Levy and Maya Schwartz revisit the early history of Caedmon records.

This month, the SpokenWeb Podcast presents a crossover episode. This audio is part of  literature professor Linda M. Morra's podcast, Getting Lit with Linda - The Canadian Literature Podcast, hosted and written by Linda, produced by Linda and Marco Timpano.