Famous readings

Classic poetry and prose read aloud by the writers themselves, or performed by those who understood the work. Bukowski, Plath, Angelou, Hemingway, Kipling, Baudelaire and more. Pull up a chair.

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Poetry · Read by the writers
Style
Charles Bukowski
Be Drunk
Charles Baudelaire
If—
Rudyard Kipling
Ocean Vuong reads
Ocean Vuong
Daddy
Sylvia Plath · reads her own work, 1962
Still I Rise
Maya Angelou
On the Pulse of Morning
Maya Angelou · Clinton inauguration, 1993
The Hill We Climb
Amanda Gorman · Biden inauguration, 2021
Do Not Go Gentle
Dylan Thomas · reads his own work

“The final act of a born run away, moving through the world at good speed.”

David — ‘nomadic’ — Tumbleweed Words

Prose · Writers speaking
Hemingway speaks
Ernest Hemingway
Simon Armitage reads
Simon Armitage · UK Poet Laureate
I Am Waiting
Lawrence Ferlinghetti · jazz poetry performance

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