YouTube. Google Video. My Space. The internet video revolution is here, and poets are certainly taking advantage of it. Here are a few recent highlights from the internet video scene. As with any internet video, you'll need a proper connection (broadband or DSL) to view the action. If you can't click on the links you can paste them into your browswer. Enjoy.

Half hour interview with Luis J. Rodriguez:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-8xHUJ7Iv_s

Live performance at the Green Mill

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c9adQc3u0Hw

Speaking of Slam, here's an ancient 30-second video of Marc Smith talking about the origin of the poetry slam, during which he admits he got the idea of a poetry competition from the Taos Poetry Circus:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-557860154999130433

How about Lou Reed on poetry:

http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-7641.html?id=7641&tag=blinkx_mrss&clientid=blinkx&part=blinkx-cnet

The next one's kind of a typical Def Poetry Jam clip (in other words the N-word is said 13 times and knowin rhymes with growin rhymes with flowin):

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1015965188

Here's some poets against the war stuff:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid32408218?bclid=32397228&bctid=36994897

How about Nikki Giovanni on Rosa Parks:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8725971791888621650

Allen Ginsberg on dropping bombs:

http://www.ifilm.com/player?ifilmId=2795301&refsite=7181

And finally, an hour reading by Cornelius Eady:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4675232545709797782

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