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- Angelou, Maya — On the Pulse of Morning (read by the author) — YouTube
- Angelou, Maya — Phenomenal Woman — YouTube
- Angelou, Maya — Still I Rise & On the Pulse of the Morning (read by author) — YouTube
- Anonymous — Beowulf — Free iTunes — Free MP3s — Reading by Seamus Heaney
- Free eBook available here.
- Apollinaire, Guillaume – Le pont Mirabeau (Read by author in 1913) — Free MP3
- Apollinaire, Guillaume — Marie (Read by author in 1913) — Free MP3
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- Ashbery, John — Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror — YouTube
- Auden, W.H. — 1st September, 1939; As I Walked Out One Evening; “Song of the Master and Boatswain,” (read by Dylan Thomas) — YouTube
- Auden, W.H. — 1st September, 1939 — YouTube
- Auden, W.H. - As I Walked Out One Evening (read by Auden) — YouTube
- Auden, W.H. - Autumn Song — Free MP3
- Auden, W.H. — Bucolics and Horae Cononicae (read by Auden) — Free Stream/Download
- Auden, W.H. — Doggerel by a Senior Citizen (read by Auden) — YouTube
- Auden, W. H. — In Memory of WB Yeats — YouTube
- Auden, W.H. — Metalogue to The Magic Flute (read by Auden — Free Stream/Download
- Auden, W.H. — The Sea and The Mirror (read by the author) — Free Stream/Download
- Baudelaire, Charles — Les fleurs du mal (in French) — Free Stream
- Beckett, Samuel — Tailpiece and 23rd Addenda (read by the author) — YouTube
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- Blake, William — A Little Boy Lost — Free MP3
- Blake, William — Jerusalem — Free MP3 Zip File
- Blake, William — Laughing Song — Free MP3
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- Blake, William — Preface to Milton — Free MP3
- Blake, William — Piping Down Valleys Wild — Free MP3
- Blake, William - Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, as read by Allen Ginsberg — Free Stream/MP3
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- Blake, William — The School Boy — Free MP3
- Blake, William — Visions of the Daughters of Albion — Free MP3
- Borges, Jorge Luis — Art of Poetry/Arte Poétic — Free MP3
- Borges, Jorge Luis — Borges Reads 30 of His Poems in Spanish — Spotify
- Borges, Jorge Luis - Plainness — Free Stream
- Bradbury, Ray — If Only We Had Taller Been (read by the author) — YouTube
- Bronte, Emily — Anticipation — Free MP3
- Bronte, Emily — Encouragement — Free MP3
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- Bukowski, Charles — 4 Hours of Bukowski Readings — Spotify
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- Bukowski, Charles — Beer — Animated Video
- Bukowski, Charles — Bluebird — YouTube Audio
- Bukowski, Charles — Girl on the Escalator — Vimeo
- Bukowski, Charles — Hostage — Spotify
- Bukowski, Charles — Master Collection — Spotify
- Bukowski, Charles — Something For The Touts, The Nuns, The Grocery Clerks, And You — YouTube Audio
- Bukowski, Charles — The Laughing Heart (read by Tom Waits) — YouTube Audio
- Bukowski, Charles — The Crunch and Roll The Dice (read by Bono) — YouTube Audio
- Bukowski, Charles — The Secret to My Endurance (read by Bukowski) — YouTube Audio
- Bukowski, Charles — Bluebird and Torched Out (read by Harry Dean Stanton) — YouTube Video
- Burton, Tim — The Nightmare Before Christmas (read by Christopher Lee) — YouTube Video
- Byron - Childe Harold: Canto III — Free MP3
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- Cage, John — Overpopulation and Art — Free Stream
- Carroll, Jim — Praying Mantis — Spotify
- Carroll, Lewis — Jabberwocky (read by Neil Gaiman) — YouTube
- Carroll, Lewis — Youtube Animated Video
- Carroll, Lewis — The Poetry of Lewis Carroll — Spotify
- Carver, Raymond — Late Fragment — Free Stream
- Cavafy, C.P. - Ithaca (read by Sean Connery) — YouTube
- Ciardi, John — As If: Poems New and Selected by John Ciardi (read by the author) — Spotify
- Cocteau, Jean — Requiem (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Cohen, Leonard — “For E.J.P” and “You Have the Lovers” (read by Cohen) — Free Stream/Download
- Coleridge, Samuel — Kubla Khan — Free MP3
- Coleridge, Samuel — Kubla Khan (read by Benedict Cumberbatch) — YouTube
- Coleridge, Samuel — Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Free MP3
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- Coleridge, Samuel — Poems (Read by Ralph Richardson) — Free Spotify
- Collins, Billy — The Best Cigarette (Poetry collection read by the author) — Free Spotify
- Collins, Billy — Soap — Spotify
- Crane, Hart — “The Broken Tower” and “The Hurricane” (read by Tennessee Williams) — Vimeo
- Crowley, Aleister — Poems by Aleister Crowley (read by Aleister Crowley) — Spotify
- Cummings, EE - Somewhere I Have Never Travelled — (read by author) — YouTube
- Cummings, EE - Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town — (read by author) — YouTube
- Dante — Inferno (read by John Ciardi) — Spotify
- De Troyes, Chretien — Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart– Stream
- Dickinson, Emily — An 8 Hour Reading of Emily Dickinson Poetry- YouTube
- Dickinson, Emily — The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 1 — Free iTunes — Free MP3
- Dickinson, Emily — The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Series 2 — Free MP3
- Dickinson, Emily — Poems & Letters — Spotify
- Dickinson, Emily — Because I Could Not Stop for Death — Free MP3
- Dickinson, Emily — Hope Is the Thing With Feathers — Free MP3
- Dickinson, Emily — ‘I Started Early–Took My Dog’ — YouTube
- Dickinson, Emily — There’s a certain Slant of light” — Free Stream
- Donne, John — Death, Be Not Proud — Free Stream/MP3
- Donne, John — The Good-morrow — Free Stream/MP3
- Donne, John — The Sunne Rising — Free MP3
- Ehrmann, Max — Desiderata (Read by Leonard Nimoy) — YouTube
- Eliot, T.S. — Four Quartets (Read by T.S. Eliot) — YouTube
- Eliot, T.S. — Four Quartets (Read by Alec Guinness) — YouTube
- Eliot, T.S. — Journey of the Magi(Read by T.S. Eliot) — YouTube
- Eliot, T.S. — Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats (Read by T.S. Eliot) — Spotify playlist
- Eliot, T.S. — The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Listen to reading by TS Eliot — YouTube
- Listen to reading by Sir Anthony Hopkins — YouTube
- Eliot, T.S. — The Waste Land — Free MP3
- Eliot, T.S. — T.S. Eliot Reading Poems and Choruses — Spotify
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence - A Coney Island of the Mind — Spotify
- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence — Selections from A Coney Island of the Mind (read by author) — Free MP3 — Free Stream
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- Ferlinghetti, Lawrence — “Underwear” (read by author) — YouTube
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- Frost, Robert — A Line Storm Song — Free MP3
- Frost, Robert — My Butterfly — Free MP3
- Frost, Robert — October — Free MP3
- Frost, Robert — Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (read by author) — YouTube
- Frost, Robert — The Gift Outright (read by author) — YouTube
- Frost, Robert — “The Road Not Taken,” “The Pasture,” “Mowing,” “Birches,” “After Apple-Picking,” and “The Tuft of Flowers” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Frost, Robert — Robert Frost Reads His Poetry — Free Spotify
- Gaiman, Neil — The Mushroom Hunters (read by Amanda Palmer) — Soundcloud
- Ginsberg, Allen — A Supermarket in California (read by Ginsberg) — Free MP3
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- Ginsberg, Allen — Howl (read by Ginsberg, 1959) — YouTube
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- Ginsberg, Allen — Howl (read by James Franco) — YouTube
- Ginsberg, Allen — Kaddish and other works (read by Ginsberg) — Free Stream
- Ginsberg , Allen — Mind Breaths (read by Ginsberg) — Free Stream/Download
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- Giorno, John — The Death of William Burroughs — Free Stream
- Hardy, Thomas — Poems (read by Richard Burton) — Spotify
- Hemingway, Ernest — Second Poem to Mary (read by Hemingway) — Free YouTube
- Henley, Ernest — Invictus — Free YouTube
- Hitchcock, Robyn — “If Death is Not the End” (Read by Alan Rickman) — Free Stream
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- Hughes, Langston — Langston Hughes Reads Langston Hughes — Spotify
- Hughes, Langston - The Dream Keeper and Other Poems of Langston Hughes (read by Hughes) — Spotify
- Hughes, Langston - The Glory of Negro History — Spotify
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (ready by Hughes) — YouTube
- Hughes, Langston — The Voice of Langston Hughes — Spotify
- Hughes, Ted — Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes & Peter Porter Read Their Poetry — Spotify
- Keats, John – To Autumn — Free MP3
- Keats, John – Ode on a Grecian Urn — Free MP3
- Keats, John – Ode to a Nightingale (as recited loosely by F. Scott Fitzgerald) — YouTube
- Keats, John — Ode to a Nightingale (as read by Benedict Cumberbatch) — YouTube
- Keats, John – On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer — YouTube
- Keats, John – When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be — Free MP3
- Kerouac, Jack — 4 Albums with Kerouac Reciting Poetry & Verse — Spotify
- Kipling, Rudyard — If (read by Dennis Hopper) — YouTube
- Kipling, Rudyard – If (read by Michael Caine) — YouTube
- Kipling, Rudyard – My Boy Jack (read by Ralph Fiennes) — YouTube
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- Kipling, Rudyard – The Way Through the Woods — Free MP3
- Levertov, Denise — City Psalm, Open Secret, Love Song, The Ache of Marriage, To the Muse, The Certainty (read by the author) — SoundCloud
- Levine, Philip — The Feed They Lion (read by Philip Levine) — YouTube
- Lorca, Federico Garcia (Read by Patti Smith) — YouTube
- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth — Selected Works — Free MP3
- McCrae, John — “In Flanders Fields” (read by Leonard Cohen) — YouTube
- Melville, Herman – Ball’s Bluff — Free Stream
- Merwin, W.S. — After a Storm (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
- Merwin, W.S. — Berryman (read by Janna Levin — Free Stream
- Milton, John – On His Blindness — Free MP3
- Multiple Authors — 19 Century French Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin — Spotify
- Multiple Authors — 20th Century French Poetry, Narrated by Paul Mankin — Spotify
- Multiple Authors — French African Poetry, Read in French by Paul Mankin — Spotify
- Nabokov, Vladimir — The University Town (read by Ralph Fiennes) — Free Stream
- Nash, Ogden — Christmas with Ogden Nash — Spotify
- Nash, Ogden — Ogden Nash Read Ogden Nash — Spotify
- Neruda, Pablo — First Poetry Reading in the US (1966) — Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo — First Poetry Reading in English (1971) — Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo — Birth (Read by Neruda) — Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo — Keeping Quiet (Read by Sylvia Boorstein) — Free Stream
- Neruda, Pablo — Pablo Neruda Lee a Pablo Neruda — Spotify
- O’Hara, Frank — Animals (read by Zadie Smith) — Free Stream
- Oliver, Mary — “The Summer Day,” “Little Dog’s Rhapsody in the Night,” “Many Miles” and “Night and the River” (read by the author) — YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia — Sylvia Plath reading her poetry (23 poems read by the author) — YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia — Ariel (read by author) — YouTube Stream
- Plath, Sylvia — A Birthday Present (read by the author) — Free MP3/Stream
- Plath, Sylvia — Daddy (read by author) — YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia — Fever 103 (read by the author) — YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia — Lady Lazarus (read by author) — YouTube
- Plath, Sylvia — Morning Song (read by Meryl Streep) — SoundCould
- Plath, Sylvia — Spinster — Soundcloud
- Plath, Sylvia — The Applicant (read by the author) — YouTube
- Poe, Edgar Allan – Annabel Lee — Free MP3
- Poe, Edgar Allan – The Raven (read by Christopher Walken) — YouTube
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- Pope, Alexander - Nature and Art — Free Stream
- Pope, Alexander – The Quiet Life — Free Stream
- Pound, Ezra - Cantico del sole — Free MP3 [text]
- Pound, Ezra - Canto XVII (“So that the vine burst from my fingers’) — Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra - Canto XXX — Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra — Canto XLV — Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra — Canto LVI — Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra — Homage to Sextus Propertius, Section VI (read by author) — Free MP3
- Pound, Ezra — Sestina: Altaforte (read by author) — YouTube
- Pound, Ezra — The Seafarer (read by author) — Free MP3
- Rexroth, Kenneth — “One Hundred Poems from the Chinese” and “In Defense of the Earth” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Rich, Adrienne — Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
- Rich, Adrienne - “Planetarium” (read by astrophysicist Janna Levin) — Soundcloud
- Rich, Adrienne - “Power” (read by astrophysicist Roseanne Cash) — Soundcloud
- Rich, Adrienne — What Kind of Times Are These? (read by the author) — Soundcloud
- Rimbaud, Arthur – Illuminations — Free MP3 Zip File
- Rumi — Poems read by Tilda Swinton, Madonna, Robert Bly & Coleman Barks — YouTube/Soundcloud
- Sandburg, Carl — A Lincoln Album: Readings by Carl Sandburg — Spotify
- Sandburg, Carl - Chicago — Free Stream
- Sandburg, Carl - The People Yes — Spotify
- Sassoon, Siegfried — Aftermath (Read by Jeremy Irons) — YouTube
- Sexton, Anne — Waiting to Die (read by author) — YouTube
- Sexton, Anne — “Her Kind,” “The Ambition Bird,” “Ringing the Bells,” “Music Swims Back to Me,” and “The Truth the Dead Know” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne — “With Mercy for the Greedy,” “The Starry Night,” “Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound,” and “Self in 1958,” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne — Divorce, Thy Name is Woman,” “Gods Making a Living,” “Jesus Cooks,” “Jesus Walking,” and “The Fury of Overshoes” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne — “Rowing,” “Riding the Elevator Into the Sky,” “The Play,” “The Rowing Endeth,” “Us,” and “The Touch” (read by the author) — Free Stream
- Sexton, Anne — What’s That — Spotify
- Schiller, Friedrich — Poetry of Friedrich von Schiller: Read in German by Kinski — Spotify
- Shakespeare, William – Shakespeare’s Sonnets — Free MP3s
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe – Adonais — Free MP3
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- Shelley, Percy Bysshe — Various Poems (read by Vincent Price) — Free Spotify
- Smith, Patti — Reading at Columbia University of Poetry That Would Become Horses (1975) — YouTube
- Smith, Patti — Reading of 12 Poems From “Seventh Heaven” (1972) — YouTube
- Stein, Gertrude — A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (read by Gertrude Stein) — Free MP3
- Stevens, Wallace — “Credences of Summer” and “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven” (read by the author) — Free Stream/Download
- Stevens, Wallace — “The Idea of Order at Key West,” “The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain,” and “Vacancy in the Park” (read by the author) — .au format - .gsm format -.ra format
- Szymborska, Wisława — Life While-You-Wait (Read by Amanda Palmer) — Soundcloud
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – Break, Break, Break — Free MP3
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Charge of the Light Brigade — YouTube
- Tennyson, Alfred Lord – The Lotos-Eaters — Free MP3
- Thomas, Dylan — Dylan Thomas Reads 8 Hours of His Poetry — Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan — Three Poems Read by W.H. Auden — Free
- Thomas, Dylan - An Evening with Dylan Thomas — Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan — Richard Burton Reads 15 Poems by Dylan Thomas — Spotify
- Thomas, Dylan — Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait’ and 14 Other Poems (read by Richard Burton) — YouTube
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- Thomas, Dylan — Under Milk Wood (read by the author) — Part 1 — Part 2
- Updike, John – Rainbow (read by author) — Free Stream
- Valéry, Paul — “Fragment Du Narcisse” (read by author) — Free Stream
- Virgil – Aeneid — Free MP3 Zip Download
- Whitman, Walt – O Captain! My Captain! — Free MP3
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- Whitman, Walt — Song of Myself (read by James Earl Jones) — Free Stream
- Whitman, Walt — Song of Myself (read by Orson Welles) — Free Stream
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- Wilbur, Richard — A Storm in April, The Ride, Shad-Time, Advice From the Muse and Other Poems (read by author) — Free Stream/Download
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- Williams, Willam Carlos — Selected Poems (read by poet 1954 ) — Free MP3
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- Wordsworth, William - Daffodils (Read by Jeremy Irons) — YouTube
- Wordsworth, William — The Last of the Flock — Free MP3
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- Yeats, William Butler - William Butler Reads His Own Work — Spotify
- Yeats, William Butler — The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Fiddler of Dooney, The Song of the Old Mother, Coole and Ballylee (read by the author) — YouTube
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- Yeats, William Butler — When You Are Old (Read by Colin Farrell) — YouTube
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