Poets Online - the blog

Not everyone has the opportunity to attend poetry readings in their local area, but thankfully there are many available online. One s...

I enjoy hearing poems read aloud, but not everyone can get to readings in their area, especially ones by well-known poets. And, of course, w...

From On Being   comes a program on  A Wild Love For the World  with Joanna Macy, a Buddhist philosopher of ecology and a translator of the p...

Each month, the editors of Poetry magazine, Christian Wiman and Don Share, talk about the new issue and talk to poets and critics, discus...

We just closed Banned Books Week when libraries and bookstores celebrate f read om. There are banned books read aloud in the Virtual Read...

Listen to The Leonard Lopate Show with W. S. Merwin on Poetry (WNYC) Poet W. S. Merwin talks about his collection of poems, The Shadow of...

I came across this nice series of podcasts (audio files) on "Patterns of Poetry" series. They are short (about 5 minutes each) dis...

Poetic License will be released on April 2nd, in celebration of National Poetry Month. It is GPR Records’ first release and features 100 po...

Borders Books has a portion of their website devoted to Open Door Poetry. It's a project to move poetry off the page and into video and ...

For July, we are looking at Peter Murphy's poem "The Stubborn Child" from his book Stubborn Child which was a finalist for t...

It's getting that time of the year when these words from Melville's Moby Dick come into my head... "Whenever I find myself gro...

Just a brief post about some poems by Wallace Stevens which can be downloaded as podcasts ( iTunes ). You can hear many of the most popula...

A public radio program that I always enjoy listening to,  Speaking of Faith , did a program on Rumi last month thoat inspired me to move up...

I heard Billy Collins recently talking about Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) . It's a collection of poems read b...