Poems Out Loud

It’s easy to find wonderful poems read or spoken aloud, as Helen Mirren reading Emily Dickinson. But if you want to hear F. Scott Fitzgerald reading Keats or H.D.’s cultured accent reading her long poem, “Helen in Egypt” or William Carlos Williams’ folksy tones as he reads his seminal “The Red Wheelbarrow” or Lorine Niedecker, Jack Spicer, Robert Creeley, Louis Zukofsky not to mention many contemporary poets, here’s the list of authors in PennSounds’ audio library for you.

Or here’s a truly contemporary library of poems, compiled by my former classmate, David Juda. Many poets read their own work; for those not available to read, professional theater people do the readings.

Here is Rafael Jesus Gonzalez, reading his poem in Spanish, with the translation printed on the page.

Treasures galore.