National Poetry Month (April): Podcasts & Audio Poetry Recordings

Listen to audio poems on poetryfoundation.org.

Many of the poems on poets.org include an audio recording.

A series of intimate and captivating interviews by Rachel Zucker with poets and artists about quotidian objects, experiences or obsessions, Commonplace conversations explore the recipes, advice, lists, anecdotes, quotes, politics, phobias, spiritual practices, and other non-Literary forms of knowledge that are vital to an artist’s life and work.

George the Poet is a London-born spoken word performer of Ugandan heritage. His innovative brand of musical poetry has won him critical acclaim both as a recording artist and a social commentator.

A series of discussions, interviews and live recordings with poets in the UK and beyond, in which we examine the writing process. Now hosted by Peter deGraft-Johnson, LPP was founded in 2014 by David Turner.

New Books in Poetry features interviews with poets about their new books.

Readings and conversation with The New Yorker's poetry editor, Kevin Young.

Kelly Writers House impresario Al Filreis leads a lively roundtable discussion of a single poem with a series of rotating guests including Tracie Morris, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, erica kaufman, Charles Bernstein, Sawako Nakayasu, Simone White, and others.

Producer Helena de Groot explores the diverse world of contemporary poetry with readings by poets, interviews with critics, and short poetry documentaries. Nothing is off limits, and nobody is taken too seriously.

The Poetry Magazine Podcast features poets and artists in their natural form—reading poems and speaking freely.

Five minutes of poetry every weekday. Hosted by the recent Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.

Talk About Poetry, where several working poets get together to talk about poems they like, are interested in, engaged by, or are annoyed by. Totally unscripted so anything can be said -- and frequently is!