Slate's Poetry Podcast

Great show

Have loved the quality and variety of this but....they stopped adding poems inJune 2013 !

I saw a few of the reviews complaining about the sound quality were a few years old so I downloaded a handful of poems hoping Slate had corrected this. Unfortunately, the sound quality is still bad, distractingly so. The sound is reminiscent of a transatlantic phone call on a cheap cell phone, with some words not distinguishable above the white noise. No way to listen to a poem when you need to be able to hear every word. The sound quality on other Slate podcasts is not an issue so I'm not sure why this one has persistent problems. This is a great idea waiting for better execution.

As a poetry lover I eagerly started clicking only to find that most of the poems I clicked on were of such poor sound quality I literally had to strain to make out the words if I could make them out at all. It's a great idea but obviously the poets are recording this at home on substandard equipment. I gave up after a few tries. Give the poets some idea of what they need to record properly and if they can't meet the standard then don't use them - this should not be amateur hour.