Voicing American poetry: sound and performance from the 1920s to the present

Introduction : voice identification

Sounding poetic voice

Edna St. Vincent Millay's performance of presence

Voice and the visual poetry of Langston Hughes

Lyric collaborations : James Merrill, David Jackson, Denise Duhamel, and Maureen Seaton

Voice activated : contemporary academic poetry readings to the National Poetry Slam

Afterword : resonances

Appendix A : a selected list of public poetry soundings since 1950

Appendix B : five poets from four corners : an interview, August 2005.