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Poetry Audio Sites

Academy of American Poets Listening Booth: The largest organization in the country dedicated specifically to the art of poetry. The Academy maintains one of the liveliest and most comprehensive poetry sites on the Internet at poets dot org

American Poet Greats Lecture Series: Monthly talks by poets speaking about the lives and works of other poets or poetry movements they feel passionately about or influenced by in their own writing visions

Audible.com: Large selection of audio books from several publishers. Small excerpt are available, but audio books are not free. I provide no links to this site, but have purchase several audiobooks and recommend the site highly

Atlantic Unbound's Audible Anthology: Atlantic Monthly poets read aloud their work from the current and past issues of the magazine

Atlantic Unbound's Soundings: Classic poems read by contemporary poets from Atlantic Monthly

BBC Education National Poetry Day Audio: Eight British celebrities (including Terry Waite) reading poems by D. H. Lawrence, Phillip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, among others.

Bold Type: audio excerpts and readings from a Random House online literary magazine

The Cortland Review: print and online magazine featuring original poem and interviews in RealAudio.

Dia Center Readings: selections from Center's Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. Readings in their entirety after December 9, 2000

Farrar Straus Giroux 50th Anniversary Reading: from the New York Times with audio clips of John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, James Fenton, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott. Currently not working as far as I can tell

Favorite Poems Project: Brainchild of former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Collected for the Library of Congress Archives, RealVideo of Americans at the end of the millenium reciting their favorite poems.

Fooling with Words: PBS series with Bill Moyers covering the 1998 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. Several contemporary poets reading their poems and interview segments in Real Audio and Quicktime.

HarperAudio Listening Room: Excerpts from Harper Collins Audiobooks collection. Poetry, plus fiction and nonfiction

Harper Collins Internet Town Hall: Internet Talk Radio's archives of Harper Audio broadcasts. Poetry greats such as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens. Clips are available in several audio formats.

Internet Poetry Archives: Readings of Phillip Levine, Seamus Heaney, Czelaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Yusef komunyakaa, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur from University of North Carolina. Highly recommended

Knopf Poetry Center: Knopf Publishing Group poets read selections of their poems.

Library of Congress Webcasts: Archive cybercasts including the Favorite Poem project national reading

PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer: Pulitzer Prize winners, Poet Laureates, Favorite Poems, timely poems selected by Robert Pinsky and others

Poets in Person MP3 Audio Clips: Clips from Poetry Magazine's Poets in Person cassette series

Poets and Writers Out Loud: Audio interviews with poets from Poets and Writers Magazine

Salon's Poetry Audio Archives: RealAudio and MP3's from a wide variety of poets, old and new. Additions are sporadic

Slate Magazine's Poetry Archive: Weekly audio poems of poets reading their original work from Slate Online Magazine's poetry editor Robert Pinsky

Wired for Books: Readings and Interviews from Ohio University of such poets as Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Pinsky

The Writer's Almanac: A five daily program of poetry and history hosted by Garrison Keillor, from Minnesota Public Radio. Keillor recites a poem at the end of the program. New almanac entries are added each week. Current links may not be (and are not) functional at later times. No links featured on this site