Multimedia - Audio

In celebration of National Poetry Month, every day we're posting a new poem from the spoken-word album Poetic License, a three-CD set that features one hundred performers of stage and screen reading one hundred poems selected by the actors...

The Dog House Band plays a cover of the traditional folksong "St. James Infirmary." The track was actually recorded in the Doghouse, a residence on the Bennington College campus. Ben Hartlage, vocal and rhythm guitar; Sven Birkerts, acoustic guitar...

Ross Gay reads his poem “Cousin Drowses on the Flight to Kuwait” which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books,...

Patrick Rosal reads his poem "Uncommon Denominators," which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books, an...

Adrian Blevins reads her poem "Why the Marriage Failed," which appears in From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems That Sing, Rhyme, Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great, forthcoming in April from Persea Books, an...

Todd Boss reads "How It Must Have Been for Him," a poem from Yellowrocket, published by Norton in November. Boss is one of twelve poets featured in "First and Foremost" (January/February 2009), our fourth annual roundup of debut poets.  

Kevin Coval reads "The Meaning of Children," a poem from his second collection, Everyday People, recently published by EM Press in Chicago. Coval is the cofounder of Chicago's Louder Than a Bomb, the largest youth poetry festival in the world...

Zach Plague reads an excerpt from his first novel, Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring Boring, published in August by Featherproof Books.   Part 7: A yard of mummies Adelaide was at her old school standing in the hall outside Ms...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads a poem from A Coney Island of the Mind, published by New Directions in 1958. A fiftieth anniversary edition of the book is forthcoming from New Directions in April.

Li-Young Lee reads the first poem, "In His Own Shadow," from his fourth poetry collection, Behind My Eyes, published in January by Norton.  

Sigrid Nunez reads from her fifth novel, The Last of Her Kind.

How to Publish Your Short Story: A panel discussion with fiction editors from the New Yorker, the Paris Review, Open City, and One Story.

Terese Svoboda reads from her third novel, Tin God.

Janice Erlbaum reads from her memoir Girlbomb.

Joshua Beckman reads from his fifth poetry collection, Shake.