Audio samples of poems from OpenMike Poetry nights
2 poems by Craig Nelson, September 7, 2001
3 poems by Jack McCarthy, July 18, 2000 & August 3, 2001
“Sundress” - Ed Schneeflock, July 20, 2001
3 poems by John Hodgen, May 18, 2001
4 poems by Debra Kang Dean, April 20, 2001
“Homestead Claim No. 2003” - Suzanne Owens, April 20, 2001
3 poems by Tommy Mendez, April 6, 2001
5 poems by Joe Fusco, Jr., March 21, 2000 & February 23, 2001
3 poems by John Gaumond, January 19, 2001
A poem by Valerie Lawson, September 26, 2000
“Bob” - Dan Lieberman, September 5, 2000
“Dendrochronology” - Judith Ferrara, June 20, 2000
2 poems by Bill MacMillan, June 6, 2000
2 poems by Jose de Gouveia, May 23, 2000
“1964” / “Tuesday” - John Powers, May 2, 2000
“Lament for a Fertile Father” - Richard Moore, April 25, 2000
Michael Brown on driving with Marcel Kopp, April 18, 2000
“Valentine’s Poem” - Eitan Kadosh, March 28, 2000
“More Than Milk” - Eve Stern, February 15, 2000
“The Truth, 1961” - Michael Steffen, November 16, 1999
2 poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar, October 19, 1999
“His Odyssey” - Wendy Mnookin, October 5, 1999
“My First Language” - Susan Roney-O'Brien, September 21, 1999
2 poems by Kurt Brown, September 7, 1999
“Punk” - Tony Brown, August 3, 1999
3 poems by Michael Brown, July 20, 1999
“week 3” - Sou MacMillan, July 20, 1999
“Hawk of Winter” - John Crosby, July 6, 1999
“Slow Learner” / “Aqua” - R. Joyce Heon, June 15, 1999
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Notes on the audio links: The audio links for each poem lead to different file-format versions of the same audio content. The "ASF audio" link will generate "streaming"-type audio which will download and play at the same time (no waiting!) This seems to work best with Internet Explorer. To play "ASF" files you'll need to have installed version 6 (or later) of the Microsoft media player, which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com.
With some browsers, clicking on the "ASF audio" link will still bring up a "Save As..." window (even after the version 6 Microsoft media player is installed.) If this happens, use the "Save As..." window to pick a location on your hard drive to save the file (which will end in ".asx") into; then find the file with the "Windows Explorer" and double-click on it to download and play the content. (Granted, this is not the most elegant work-around; but it's still faster than waiting for the entire audio download to finish before playing it.)
The "MPEG-3 audio file" link allows you to download a higher-quality MPEG-3 version of the audio (but you have to wait until the download is complete before playing the content.) The version 6 Microsoft media player will play MPEG-3 files. The Winamp player will also play these. (The smaller-sized "alternate ASF audio" files can also be played using MPEG-3 players.)
The "WAV audio file" link allows you to download the audio in a file format compatible with most Windows-based PCs; in case the previous formats don't work for you.
The "ASF" files were generated using the Windows Media Encoder found in the Media Tools which can be downloaded from www.microsoft.com.