She Walks in Beauty: A Woman's Journey Through Poems

The Poets' Corner: The One-and-Only Poetry Book for the Whole Family

• UNABRIDGED (6 hrs and 31 mins)
• By John Lithgow
• Narrated By Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Helen Mirren, and others

John Lithgow has compiled an outstanding collection of memorable poems and has gathered his famous friends to read them. The wide variety of carefully selected poetry in this audiobook provides the perfect introduction to reel in those who are new to poetry, and for poetry lovers to experience beloved verses in a fresh, vivid way. Lithgow offers insightful and sometimes poignant commentary to accompany each poem. His essential criterion is that "each poem's light shines more brightly when read aloud".

The Poetry of Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath

• NONE (1 hr and 54 mins)
• By Diane Wood Middlebrook (Professor of English, Stanford University), Herbert Lindenberger (Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, and others

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

• HIGHLIGHTS (45 mins)
• By Emily Dickinson
• Narrated By Julie Harris

A collection of the finest work of one of America's best-loved poets. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. Critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. Read by Julie Harris.

At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 1 min)
• By Mary Oliver
• Narrated By Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work.

Poetic License: 100 Poems - 100 Performers

• UNABRIDGED (3 hrs and 1 min)
• By Emily Dickinson, e. e. cummings, William Wordsworth, and others
• Narrated By Jason Alexander, Christine Baranski, Charles Busch, and others

Why a poetry album? Easy answer: I love poetry. I love reading it. I love memorizing it. I love hearing great actors recite it. As the poet Mark Strand wrote, “Ink runs from the corners of my mouth / There is no happiness like mine / I have been eating poetry.” In the past, when I was full from eating, I have had the audacity to set poetry to music. But, on this audiobook, you will hear the music of the poems.