Many poetry sites complement their printed texts with recordings of the authors reading their poems aloud. The sites of the Academy of American Poets , Atlantic Monthly , Slate , and the Internet Poetry Archive house particularly good collections of readings by many well-known poets, including Philip Levine, Robert Pinsky, Galway Kinnell, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lucille Clifton. The Ann Arbor Poetry Forum offers an audio archive of regional readings. Alt-X hosts its own series of audio broadcasts that are archived on its Web site. The United States of Poetry site offers downloadable video clips from the popular PBS TV series of the same name.
Poetry features videos of New York City performances.
At a time of heightened public interest in poetry readings and performances, the online marriage of text and voice makes the Web even more attractive as a venue for poetry. More significantly, multimedia and interactivity are beginning to transform literature in a fundamental way. Practitioners of cybertext literature, myself among them, have been active for many years in producing electronic poetry and fiction that exploits hypertext, animated text, and other elements unavailable in print. These texts can be different with every reading, exploring the subtly protean nature of meaning and understanding in ways never before possible. They can bring about unprecedented amalgams of the literary, visual, and performing arts.