| April 3, 2006 |
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Coudal Partners' Verse by Voice
Poem  and answering machine connect at long last in this collection of literary messages left for Coudal Partners, a design group in Chicago. When CP put out a casting call for people "itching to recite" a favorite short poem, it was a stab in the dark, a number scribbled on a wall in a backroom. But hordes of bookish types left "so many, many entries." Of the ones plucked out of the chorus line, Coudal's favorites include a reading of Frank O'Hara's "Animals" by Zadie Smith and a lovely delivery of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Spring and Fall" from Laura Demanski. We loved this crackly, cell-phone rendition of a Wallace Stevens rhyme by a man listed as JC. Coudal won't keep this up forever, though, and April is National Poetry Month. So what are you waiting for? Pick up the phone and call: 703-637-9276. (in Poetry) |
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