Monday
9:15 A.M. Get to Lewis Library on campus where the broadcast center is. In a couple of hours, I'm scheduled to record a brief interview for an "on the Media" segment about my libretto for "A Marvelous Order."
COMMENT
It seems the life of a poet is not as relaxing as one might think! As the poet laureate of the U.S., Smith is described as "an evangelist for her medium." She is also a professor of creative writing at Princeton and on this particular day she is using a studio at the library to record a radio broadcast.
These days, when a lot of poetry is often published on the Internet poets are often asked for a recording to go with the text version of a poem. I've used the campus library for that purpose myself in order to get high-quality sound (For example, see: Can Opener by Amy Brunvand in Terrain.org)
The library is a good place for a shared public recording studio because it's a neutral campus space, not controlled by a single department. One department might use it to record educational podcasts, while another might use it to read poetry, and another for student projects. Having the expertise and equipment in neutral library space means that the priorities can be set by users telling the library what they need.
