Slate's Poetry Podcast

From Slate Magazine, David Rivard reads Edward Thomas' poem "There's Nothing Like the Sun."

From Slate Magazine, Eric McHenry reads his poem "How to Steal the Laptop of Your Childhood Nemesis."

From Slate Magazine, Terri Witek reads her poem "Tomorrow Night, Shake Me."

From Slate Magazine, Alicia Ostriker reads Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29."

From Slate Magazine, Jeffrey Skinner reads his poem "Distant Wants."

From Slate Magazine, Dean Young reads his poem "Upon Hearing of Another Marriage Breaking Up."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Robert Bridges' poem "Low Barometer."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem “No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief.”

From Slate Magazine, Angie Estes reads her poem "History."

From Slate Magazine, Alan Michael Parker reads his poem "After Love."

A recording of what is rumored to be Walt Whitman reading "America."

From Slate Magazine, Gail Mazur reads her poem "Late at Night."

From Slate Magazine, Josh Kalscheur reads his poem "Creation Myth."

From Slate Magazine, Nan Cohen reads her poem "The Fear of the Dark."

From Slate Magazine, Duy Doan reads his poem "History Lesson From Anh Hai."

From Slate Magazine, Mark Halliday reads Thomas Hardy's poem "Beyond the Last Lamp."

From Slate Magazine, Traci Brimhall reads her poem "If Marriage Is a Duel at 10 Paces."

From Slate Magazine, Dean Young reads his poem "Hot To Glow."

From Slate Magazine, David Lehman reads Thomas Gray's “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College.”

From Slate Magazine, Henri Cole reads his poem "The Bee."

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads his poem "Blood Flower Sermon."

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads his poem "Pandrol Jackson."

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads his poem "Imperial."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Thomas Hardy's poem "The Oxen."

From Slate Magazine, Carol Muske-Dukes reads her poem "Gun Control."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads John Donne's “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day.”

From Slate Magazine, Sara Peters reads her poem "Red Cloth."

From Slate Magazine, Richard Kenney reads his poem "I'm Going To Have To Fire the Dream Master."

From Slate Magazine, Alfred Corn reads his poem "Dinner Theater."

From Slate Magazine, Christian Wiman reads his poem "Little Killing Ditty."

Frome Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Mary Sidney Herbert's "Psalm 52."

From Slate Magazine, Tony Hoagland reads his poem "The Heatling Process."

For Slate Magazine, Sarah Holland-Batt reads her poem "Garden Apartment, Taube."

From Slate Magazine, Peter Campion reads his poem "El Dorado."

From Slate Magazine, Rose McLarney reads her poem "Story With a Real Beast and a Little Blood in It."

From Slate Magazine, Mary Jo Bang reads H.D.'s poem "Helen."

From Slate Magazine, Brian Culhane reads his poem "Declaration to a Shade."

From Slate Magazine, James Longenbach reads his poem "Cruise."

From Slate Magazine, Kristen Fogdall reads her poem "Letters From the Shore."

From Slate Magazine, Katherine Hollander reads her poem "The Wounded Soldier."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Anne Bradstreet's poem “Before the Birth of One of Her Children."

From Slate Magazine, Eric Rawson reads his poem "At Fifty."

From Slate Magazine, Yusef Komunyakaa reads his poem "Latitudes."

From Slate Magazine, Don Bogen reads his poem "Desks."

From Slate Magazine, Alicia Ostriker reads her poem "Betrayal by the Beloved."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Ben Jonson's poem "On My First Son."

From Slate Magazine, Howard Altman reads his poem "Desert Sounds."

From Slate Magazine, Patrick Ryan Frank reads his poem "Marilyn Monroe and Truman Capote Dance."

From Slate Magazine, Charles Webb reads his poem "Hospital."

From Slate Magazine, hear Mike Wallace read Robert Browning's poem "My Last Dutchess."

From Slate Magazine, Gail Mazur reads her poem "Forbidden City."

From Slate Magazine, Karl Kirchwey reads his poem "Reading Apuleius."

From Slate Magazine, Kathryn Levy reads her poem "The Home."

From Slate Magazine, Lauren Watel reads her poem "Little Witches."

From Slate Magazine, Angie Estes reads her poem "Almost Autumn."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Walter Savage Landor's poem "Memory."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Walter Savage Landor's poem "On Seeing a Hair of Lucretia Borgia."

From Slate Magazine, Stephen Yenser reads his poem "Variations (for Three Old Saws)."

From Slate Magazine, Billy Collins reads his poem "Foundling."

From Slate Magazine, C.K. Williams reads his poem "Watching the Telly With Nietzsche."

From Slate Magazine, Philip Schultz reads his poem "Aardvarks."

From Slate Magazine, Rita Dove reads her poem "Insomnia Etiquette."

From Slate Magazine, Paul Breslin reads his poem "Inquest."

From Slate Magazine, Brenda Hillman reads her poem "After a Very Long Difficult Day."

From Slate Magazine, Billy Collins reads Leigh Hunt's poem "The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit."

From Slate Magazine, Michael Ryan reads his poem "Mug."

From Slate Magazine, J. Allyn Rosser reads her poem “The Five Facets of Love.”

From Slate Magazine, Alex Dimitrov reads his poem “Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.”

Hear Robert Pinsky read a poem by Mark Alexander Boyd.

Hear Robert Pinsky read Ezra Pound's translation of Guido Cavalcanti's “Sonnet XXIV.”

From Slate Magazine, Wyn Cooper reads his poem "Movement."

From Slate Magazine, Erin Belieu reads her poem "Love Is Not an Emergency."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Herman Melville's "The Maldive Shark."

From Slate Magazine, Joshua Rivkin reads his poem "New Economy."

From Slate Magazine, Doug Ramspeck reads his poem "Life in the Woods."

From Slate Magazine, H.L. Spelman reads his poem "Song of the Unseen Bird."

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads Vachel Lindsay's poem "A Curse for the Saxophone."

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads Vachel Lindsay's poem "Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket."

From Slate Magazine, Alan Williamson reads his poem "No. 1 Piazzetta Calamandrei."

From Slate Magazine, Brenda Shaughnessy reads her poem "Inappropriate Dreams."

From Slate Magazine, Daniel Bosch reads his poem "Dream."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Walter Raleigh's poem "Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk"

From Slate Magazine, Chard deNiord reads his poem "Augustine's Pears."

From Slate Magazine, Patrick Phillips reads his poem "Alan the Plumber."

From Slate Magazine, Tomás Q. Morin reads his poem "Flea Circus."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads William Butler Yeats' "On Being Asked for a War Poem."

From Slate Magazine, Joe Wilkins reads his poem "The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods."

From Slate Magazine, Alexandra Teague reads her poem "Cartier."

From Slate Magazine, Joanie Mackowski reads her poem "The Baby."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads Marianne Moore's "Silence."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads Edgar Guest's "Home."

From Slate Magazine, Edward Hirsch reads his poem "The Lottery."

From Slate Magazine, Spencer Short reads his poem "Goodbye Billyburg."

From Slate Magazine, Vanesha Pravin reads her poem "City Aubade."

From Slate Magazine, Robin Becker reads her poem "Xenia."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads Ben Jonson's poem "To the World: A Farewell for a Gentlewoman, Virtuous and Noble."

From Slate Magazine, Greg Miller reads his poem "The Sculptor and His Muse."