Poetry

Webcasts of prestigious New York reading series. 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a cultural and community center located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, at the corner of East 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue. it offers a series of talks and conversations and literary readings, often featuring poets.

The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943, when Allen Tate was Consultant in Poetry. It contains nearly two thousand recordings—of poets and prose writers participating in literary events at the Library’s Capitol Hill campus as well as sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory.

Founded in 2004 by Matt O’Donnell and Camille Dungy, From the Fishouse is an IRS-registered non-profit that promotes the oral tradition of poetry. Their free online audio archive showcases emerging poets (defined for this purpose as poets with fewer than two published books of poetry at the time of submission) reading their own poems, as well as answering questions about poetry and the writing process.

Welcome to the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's YouTube channel where you can see video highlights from past Dodge Foundation Poetry Festivals, some of which have been featured on PBS. Over the years a remarkable group of poets from around the world has read to enthusiastic audiences and discussed a broad range of topics related to poetry.

LOC's literary audio collections contain historic and contemporary recordings featuring poets and writers reading and discussing their work at the Library of Congress (and beyond).

Recordings of every event that happens in the National Poetry Library (located in London, England).

The Poetry Archive is a not-for-profit organisation that produces, acquires and preserves recordings of poets reading their own work out loud. We make substantial excerpts from our recording sessions freely available online through this website.

A guide to selected online resources for audio recordings of poets reading and discussing their work (from the Library of Congress).

The Poetry Center organizes and presents some 30 public readings, performances and poetry-related talks each year, on the SF State campus and at other Bay Area venues, featuring outstanding poets and writers from across the literary spectrum. The Poetry Center houses the American Poetry Archives, an historic collection of over 5,000 hours of original audio and video recordings documenting the Reading Series up to the present. Open access to available audio/video at the Poetry Center Digital Archive.

Over 2000 recordings of poets, both audio and video. Searchable by poet, poem title, related audio and related video (and more).

Called the "Woodstock of Poetry" by American Film, and "Dazzling" by the Los Angeles Times, Poetry in Motion is an unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry's ancient oral tradition. And an energetic demonstration that verse is alive and thriving in the media-blitzed age.

The Poetry Center Archive of video and audio recordings at Stony Brook University documents poetry readings and programs held on campus between 1967 and 1980.

Voca is a world-class collection of audiovisual recordings of poets reading their work, dating from 1963 to the present, offered free to the public in an online digital library. The Poetry Center has recently completed the digitization of its archive of analog recordings from 1963-2006, and 20 to 30 new born-digital readings are added each year through the Poetry Center’s Reading and Lecture Series. More than 1,000 recordings are currently available.