“I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson
from the “Soundings” series on Atlantic Unbound's poetry pages
      Steven Cramer, Lucie Brock-Broido & Mary Jo Salter have taken on the mystery of Emily Dickinson's poems as “scripts for performance” -- “But how should her poems be said? . . . did she intend it to be read out loud?” -- & you can hear the results in their readings of “I cannot live with You.”

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
from Poe Audio
      Poe's classic poem is read here by the inimitable Basil Rathbone -- & the Poe Audio collection will give you hours of great listening, to many of Poe's poems in the voices of Christopher Walken, David Warner, Michael York, Gregory Hines...

• Coleman Barks, “Spring Morning”
• Ernie Cline, “Tech Support”
• Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and “Trumpet Player”
• Sylvia Plath, “On the Decline of Oracles”
• John Powers, “Thayer Street Blues”
• Molly Raynor, “Wings”
• Lizzie Wann, “Patricia Said”