Poetry Audio

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"An Urban Convalescence"
The late poet James Merrill, recently the subject of a memoir by Alison Lurie, reads three of his poems from the "Voice of the Poet" series.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes reads two of his poems.
"Transformatrix"
British writer Patience Agbabi reads the rap-inspired piece "Ufo Woman" from her latest book of poetry.
The revolution will be streamed
Gil Scott-Heron reads poems that address racism and the role of the black minister in America.
"The Raven"
Edgar Allan Poe's haunting classic poem is read by Hollywood legend Basil Rathbone.
"The Old Darned Man"
Nonagenarian Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz reads poems that span his 70-year writing career.
Robert Frost
Acquainted With The Night and West-Running Brook from "Robert Frost Reads"
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
"Fulano"
Pleasant Gehman
"The Wild West Club"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Lynne Procope
"Elemental Woman"
Robert Frost
From "Robert Frost Reads", Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening and After Apple-Picking
Todd Colby
"Stiff Prick"
Craig Foltz
"Interiors/Exteriors"
Emily XYZ
"Sinatra Walks Out"
Todd Colby
"Candy"
Michelle T. Clinton
"Blood As A Bright Color"
Wanda Coleman
"They Will Starve You"
Marilyn Chin
"The Barbarians Are Coming"
Todd Colby
"Void Where Prohibited"
The Voice of the Poet: Sylvia Plath
Plath reads her poems "Sow" and "On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad"
Muriel Rukeyser
"Despisals"
Exene Cervenka
"Surface to Air Serpents"
Henry Rollins
"Everything"
Jerome Rothenberg
"Prologomena to a Poetics"
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