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Listening, Podcasts and Film

Poets reading their work, recordings, podcasts, and poetry films. Select an image or name to visit the site.

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    The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

    Brings great poems from page to film, with poem films and readings.

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    American Scholar: Read Me a Poem

    The American Scholar’s series of poems read aloud.

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    Arizona Poetry Archive

    Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s audiovisual archive of readings.

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    Audio Poem of the Day

    The Poetry Foundation’s daily audio recording of a classic or contemporary poem read by poets and actors.

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    Badilisha Poetry X-Change

    An online audio archive and pan-African poetry platform, from Cape Town.

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    Children’s Poetry Archive

    Poets reading their poems for children, from the Poetry Archive.

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    Dodge Poetry

    Videos from the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and program.

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    Essential American Poets: Recordings

    The Poetry Foundation’s recordings of essential American poets reading their work.

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    The Lannan Foundation

    Recordings from Lannan’s Readings & Conversations series with poets and writers.

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    Lyrikline

    Contemporary poetry in the poets’ own voices, with thousands of translations.

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    On Being: Poetry Unbound

    Pádraig Ó Tuama’s podcast, each episode a single poem read and reflected upon.

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    PennSound

    The University of Pennsylvania’s archive of free poetry recordings.

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    Poems to a Listener

    Interviews from a half-hour radio program of poetry readings and conversations with poets.

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    Poetry Archive

    Listen to the world’s best poetry read aloud by the poets themselves.

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    Poetry Everywhere

    Short poetry films from PBS and the Poetry Foundation, for classrooms on PBS LearningMedia.

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    The Poetry Hour

    The Poetry Hour, from the Josephine Hart Poetry Foundation, on the power of poetry read aloud.

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    SFSU Poetry Center

    The Poetry Center’s digital archive of readings recorded at San Francisco State since 1954.

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    The Slowdown

    A daily podcast of a poem and a short reflection, hosted by Maggie Smith.

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    UbuWeb

    A large free archive of avant-garde poetry, sound poetry, and recordings.

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    Universe in Verse

    Maria Popova’s annual celebration of science through poetry, from The Marginalian.