Question for those in the audio know

If you want to record in a more techie way and for longer than 60 seconds, there are plenty of freeware programmes available on the internet. I know poets who swear by audacity.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

You may well need a microphone of better quality than that built in to your PC. Over here I would pay about £5 for something usable. But play with what you have already first. You might hate the whole enterprise!