 Martin
Sheen reads Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore's famous poem, My Country Awake,
at a rally for Appalachia in Nelsonville, Ohio. Martin
Sheen reads My Country Awake by Rabindranath Tagore
 Allen
Ginsberg, the beat poet and social activist, talks with Don Swaim about
work, poetry, politics, drugs, sex, censorship, and more in this 1985 interview.
Ginsberg
reads "The Warrior" and portions of "Howl" and "Moloch."
 Terry
Anderson spent nearly seven years as a hostage in Beirut during the Lebanese
civil war. Listen as he reads the poems he wrote while imprisoned.
 Maya
Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God's Children
Need Traveling Shoes, and The Heart of a Woman, tells how poetry cured
her muteness, how she writes in the autobiographical and poetical style, and how
she means "we" when she writes "I" in this 1987 interview
with Don Swaim.
 Frank
Bidart, author of The Book of the Body, Desire,
Golden State, In the Western Night, and The Sacrifice, has
received the Bobbitt Prize and nominations for the Pulitzer Prize, the National
Book Award, and the National Book Critic's Circle Award.
 Poet,
novelist, essayist, teacher, and author of A DryWhite Season, The Wall of the
Plague, and An Act of Terror, André
Brink talks to Don Swaim about writing in two languages, apartheid and oppression
in this 1985 interview.
 Poems
by Michael Bugeja
From Talk, University of Arkansas Press 1999
 Robert
Creeley, recipient of the Frost Medal, has published more than sixty books
of poetry and was elected Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Creeley
talks to Don Swaim about his life, the Black Mountain writers, letter writing,
and his migration from prose to poetry in this 1984 interview.
 James
Dickey, decorated fighter pilot, U.S. poet laureate, and author of the novel
Deliverance, talks to Don Swaim about advertising, being on welfare, hunting,
drinking and writing in this 1981 interview. Dickey reads his poem, "The
Voyage of the Needle."
 Listen as Laura Lee Parrotti gives voice to
the poetry of Emily Dickinson.
 Wayne
Dodd is Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio University and the long-time
editor of the influential literary journal The
Ohio Review.
Wayne Dodd reads his
poems including:
On Any Given Afternoon, Naming the Winter, Two Poems of Advice, and Poem
about Nothing
 Richard
Sater reads selections from Walt Whitman's "Leaves
of Grass"
 Richard Stevens reads a few of his
favorite
classic English poems, including poetry by Blake, Burns, Byron,
Donne, Herbert, Hunt, Keats, and Shakespeare.
Eloise
Klein Healy reads Artemis in Echo Park, The Pea Hens, From Los Angeles Looking
South, and more of her poems. |
 Lynn
Emanuel, author of The Dig, Hotel Fiesta, and Then,
Suddenly— is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize Award for her
poem "inside
gertrude stein" and the winner of the National Poetry Series Award for The
Dig.
 Amy
Hempel is a poet and fiction writer, author of Tumble Home, Unleashed:
Poems By Writers' Dogs, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom,
and Reasons to Live, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
 Mark
Halliday reads a few of his poems, including Already in 1927, Winchendon, and Green
Canoe.
 Twice
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry, Dave
Smith reads fifteen of his poems
 Thomas
Lynch, poet, essayist, teacher, funeral director, and finalist for the National
Book Award, reads essays from The Undertaking and poems Grimalkin & Other
Poems.
 The
Aeneid - Book IV - Driven by fate to seek a new land for himself, his family,
and the survivors of Troy, Aeneas abandons Carthage and his lover Dido... Valahfridus (Wilfried) Stroh reads
Virgil's The Aeneid in Latin
 Aethelred
Eldridge reads Milton
by William Blake
 The
Iliad is the story of a raging anger and its human toll. The poem recounts "the rage of Achilles," the
greatest of the Greek heroes fighting in
the war against Troy. Listen to Stanley
Lombardo read Homer's The Iliad - Book I in Ancient Greek.
 Richard
Compson Sater reads
A. E. Housman's collection of poems, A Shropshire
Lad, including "To An Athlete Dying Young"
 Field Stones
poems by
Robert Kinsley,
Orchises Press 1997
 Herbert
Woodward Martin
discusses poetry, song, and other topics in his
hour-long lecture in RealAudio,
The African American Oral Tradition
 Robert
Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate (1997-2000), reads three of his poems:
ABC, Samurai Song,
and The Want Bone..
 Bonnie Proudfoot reads
a few of her poems.
 J.
Allyn Rosser reads her poetry. Rosser teaches in the creative writing program
of Ohio University.
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at Wired for Books
Plays & poems in audio & video
Love's
Labour's Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming
of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, and The Tragedy
of Julius Caesar are productions of Actors' Theatre, Davis Discovery
Program, and Government Television (GTC-3) of Columbus, Ohio
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