Internships
From the Fishouse currently seeks a student intern for the position:
- audio technician
The non-profit Fishouse is a nationally recognized literary journal that publishes bi-monthly online. Fishouse mails digital recorders to between six and ten poets each issue, who record themselves reading their poems and Q&A segments about poetry and writing. Fishouse also hosts a live reading series in Maine and podcasts recordings of the live readings.
The highest echelons of the literary community—Poets & Writers magazine, the Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Foundation, the Society of American Poets—have recognized Fishouse as an important new artistic, educational, and cultural resource. We find it exciting to be at the front of a new means to give audience to literature through technology, and we’re looking for students who share this enthusiasm for breaking new ground. These unpaid intern positions provide valuable experience for aspiring poets, scholars or critics of poetry, for students interested in non-profit administration, in publishing, and technology in education and the arts.
Fishouse does not have an office, so work will be done remotely—student’s own computer is required—with most communication taking place via email and instant messenger.
Audio Technician:
The audio technician will be responsible for sound editing and creating podcasts from live Reading Series recordings, sound editing poem and Q&A files as they return from poets, compiling and publishing weekly podcasts from archived material, and possibly remastering archived sound files. The successful candidate will have experience in sound editing (we currently use Audacity, GarageBand, and ProTools) and familiarity with Macs. Interest in poetry and literature is a plus, but not required. Dazzling technical skills are.
For more information, contact Matt O’Donnell, Editor & Executive Director: matt@fishousepoems.org
Posted on May 4, 2008 7:13 AM