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40 Poetry Podcasts You’ll Love
23 December 2007, the poet @ 10:59 pm

If you’re a huge iTunes fan, you’ll love the poetry podcasts available. Podcasting has become very popular and iTunes is at the forefront of that movement. Like to read poetry? You’ll love to hear it read. Today’s top 25 literary iTunes are listed below with those that focus entirely or primarily on poetry highlighted:

1. PotterCast: The Harry Potter Podcast
2. The Classic Tales Podcast
3. APM: Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac
4. The New York Times Book Review Podcast
5. MuggleCast: Harry Potter Podcasting
6. iTunes: Meet The Author
7. NPR: Books
8. PRI: To The Best Of Our Knowledge
9. NOCTURNAL: A Free Scott Sigler Audiobook (this one includes explicit content)
10. “Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn” Audiobook
11. Poetry Magazine Podcast
12. Poem Of The Day
13. Escape Pod
14. NPR: Book Tour
15. Great Books - A Free Podcast Of Masterpieces From The World Of Literature And Poetry
16. Phases: A Twilight Podcast
17. The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson Podcast
18. Playing For Keeps
19. “A Tale Of Two Cities” Audiobook
20. PoemTalk
21. LibriVox Audiobooks
22. alt.NPR: Poetry Off The Shelf
23. Merriam-Webster’s Word Of The Day
24. “Heart Of Darkness” Audiobook
25. Lit Summary Podcast

Many of these podcasts from iTunes are free. More poetry podcasts from iTunes include:

• IndieFeed: Performance Poetry
• Poetry & Literature from Broome Community College
• Digital Poetry @ NJIT
• Poetry On Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work, 1888-2006, Volume I
• The Poet’s Corner: The One-And-Only Poetry Book For The Whole Family by John Lithgow (yes, the actor)
• Poetry PodCast
• Shattered Thought Spoken Word Poetry
• National Champion Performance Poetry (explicit)
• Poetry X Radio
• Poetry Weekly
• Children’s Poetry Time
• Dancing With The Feminine Voice: Reading The Poetry Of Women Writers
• Classic Poetry Aloud
• Houghton Mifflin Poetry Podcast: The Poetic Voice
• miPOradio Poetry

There are plenty more poetry podcasts available through iTunes. Again, many of them are free. Some of them, like John Lithgow’s poetry audiobook require a fee, but you can listen to many poetry podcasts for no charge at all. If you believe poetry is best listened to, then I’d encourage you to check out some of these podcasts that focus on poetry and literature.

1 Comment a “40 Poetry Podcasts You’ll Love”

1. Classic Poetry Aloud — January 12, 2008 @ 6:30 pm
   

   Many thanks for the mention of Classic Poetry Aloud. I would add another podcast to your list - Will Brown’s Cloudy Day Art (http://www.cloudydayart.com/). I have no relationship with Will, except that he once interviewed me on techniques for reading poetry.

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