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Literary readings online: poetry readings, novels on audio

American Academy of Poetry Poetry Archive
Audio and video recordings of poets speaking.The Academy of American Poets has presented and recorded over 800 poetry readings, lectures, and symposia.

Audio books. Librivox.
Audio readings of literary works.
LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Authors@Google
The Authors@Google program on YouTube brings authors of all stripes to Google for informal talks centering on their recently published books. Video.

The British Library Sound Archive

BBC Poetry Out Load
Poets perform their own work, recorded on audio.

Bloodaxe Books
Vieos and audio of poets reading their poetry.

The Poetry Archive, an online collection of recordings of poets reading their work.

Internet Search Archive, poetry recordings.

Librivo
Audio readings of literary works. LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Their goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books. They are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.

Open Culture
Free audio books on iTunes: fiction, classics, poetry, discussion, interviews.

PennSound
PennSound is an ongoing project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives of poetry readings.
PennSound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, University of Pennsylvania.

Poetcasting (UK)
PoetCasting is a poetry podcasting project which works with poets throughout the United Kingdom. The project features published, performance, emerging and established poets reading their own work online and out loud. The project has been live since April 2007.

Poetry Matters Now
An online collection of readings and video interviews with poets.

A selection:

Allen Ginsberg reading A Supermarket in California

T.S. Eliot reading La Figlia Che Piange


T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot reading extracts from Four Quartets.
The Poetry Archive


UbuWeb. Concrete and visual poetry. An excellent, comprehensive online archive of poetry, as well as historical audio and filmed recordings.
UbuWeb's historical section primarily documents the trajectory of visual and concrete poetry, beginning with Simias Rhodius's "Wings of Eros in Theocritus", dating from 1516, and continuing all the way into the late 1970s.

W. H. Auden.
A reading by W. H. Auden, at the 92nd St. Y's Poetry Center, March 27, 1972. (New York Times, free online access.)

W. H. Auden, readings and interviews from the BBC sound archive.

W. H. Auden. After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics

The Listening Booth, The Academy of American Poets
Poetry readings recorded on audio, from Auden to W. B. Yeats.

Whitman, Walt. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Audio readings.






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