Kolbitars - Poets reading their own poetry - Church of the Resurrection

This page contains audio files of poets reading their own poetry (apart from a few, in which an actor reads the poem). It is intended to give a flavor of different types of poetry and how poets themselves interpret their own poems. Most of the MP3s are of modern poets, and quite a few have been American poets laureate or Pulitzer-Prize winners. I trust you will find some inspiration for your own poetry from these offerings! It can be both restful and inspiring to sit back and listen to these tracks. I hope to add to this collection from time to time.

Sean O'Neill

Elizabeth Bishop reading The Fish Robert Bly Reads Winter Poem Richard Wilbur reads Love Calls Us to The Things of This World John Berryman There Sat Down Once a Thing on Henry's Heart Paul Muldoon Reads The Loaf Jane Hirshfield reads My Proteins Robert Frost reads The Road Not Taken William Carlos Williams recites This Is Just To Say Philip Levine Reads The Simple Truth Natasha Trethewey reads Incident Lawrence Ferlinghetti Pity the Nation Wilfred OWEN Dulce et Decorum Est Kenneth Branagh Charles Wright reading Appalachian Book of the Dead IV Mark Strand Reads The Great Poet Returns W S Merwin reads Rain Light Kay Ryan reading her poem Shipwreck Charles Simic Reads Summer Morning The Things by Donald Hall Ted Kooser reading his poem Opossum Louise Gluck The Wild Iris Billy Collins The Lanyard Stanley Kunitz Reads The Portrait Robert Pinsky Reads The Forgetting Robert Hass reading his poem Time and Materials Rita Dove reads Transit TS Eliot The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock Langston Hughes reads The Negro Speaks of Rivers Shakespeares Sonnet 18 read by David Tenant Robert Lowell reads Skunk Hour Dylan Thomas reads Fern Hill Frank O Hara reads Having a coke with you Ee cummings reads Somewhere I have never travelled WB Yeats reads The Lake Isle of Innisfree Mary Oliver reads The Summer Day aka The Grasshopper Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley as read by Bryan Cranston The Waste Land TS Eliot read by Alec Guinness Jack Kerouac San Francisco Scene Ted Hughes The Thought Fox Lockdown by Simon Armitage James Fenton reads Out of the East John Ashbery reads A Nice Presentation James Tate reads Of Whom Am I Afraid Andrew Motion reading Anne Frank Huis Afternoons by Philip Larkin Hugh Mac Diarmid reads The Watergaw Charles Bukowski reads Bluebird Seamus Heaney reads Digging Sylvia Plath Reads Daddy Wystan Hugh Auden As I Walked Out One Evening 1937 Wendell Berry Reads A Poem on Hope

Kolbitars - Poets reading their own poetry

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