Poetic License: 100 Poems/100 Performers
This is a good three CD collection of a wide variety of poetry read by others known and unknown.
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DISC 1:
01. 1:04 - Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
02. 0:12 - Musical Interlude: Poems about Love by Glen Roven
03. 0:30 - Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson
04. 1:12 - Love Is Not All by Edna St. Vincent Millay
05. 1:08 - Sonnet XVII By Pablo Neruda
06. 1:07 - Sonnet XIX by William Shakespeare
07. 1:23 - Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood
08. 2:04 - The Cinnamon Peeler by Michael Ondaatje
09. 1:36 - Love looks not with the eyes by William Shakespeare
10. 0:57 - Hang there, my verse by William Shakespeare
11. 1:05 - I Thank You God For Most This Amazing Day by E.E. Cummings
12. 3:04 - Lovers on a Park Bench by Samuel L. Johnson
13. 1:42 - If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
14. 1:15 - Soft Knife by Jonathan W. Stoller
15. 0:39 - Meeting at Night by Robert Browning
16. 1:18 - Last Love by Mary Karr
17. 0:59 - To the Harbormaster by Frank O'Hara
18. 0:10 - Musical Interlude: A Star Danced
19. 1:25 - Daffodils by William Wordsworth
20. 0:57 - Composed Upon Westminster Bridge by William Wordsworth
21. 0:40 - Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W. B. Yeats
22. 1:30 - Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay (abridged)
23. 2:14 - A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
24. 1:42 - The Sun Underfoot Among the … by Amy Clampitt
25. 1:00 - Some Lines Scrawled On The Door … by Don Blanding
26. 1:57 - Lake and Maple by Jane Hirshfield
27. 1:09 - The House Was Quiet And the… by Wallace Stevens
28. 3:05 - Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
29. 0:28 - Poem for My Daughter by Stephen Spender
30. 0:10 - Musical Interlude-Guilding Monuments
31. 2:01 - Poetry by Marianne Moore
32. 1:29 - Sonnets to Opheus (#3) by Rainer Maria Rilke
33. 4:28 - Contexts by Paul Monette

DISC 2:
01. 0:10 - Musical Interlude - Beauty's Rose by Glen Roven
02. 4:34 - The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll
03. 1:14 - Vespers by A.A. Milne
04. 2:02 - Psalm Concerning the Castle by Denise Levertov
05. 0:51 - Poison-Tester by Shel Silverstein
06. 0:44 - A Little Tooth by Thomas Lux
07. 1:38 - You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll
08. 2:20 - Nap Taker by Shel Silverstein
09. 4:21 - Blue Football by Peter Cook
10. 0:22 - Musical Interlude - Thereby Hangs a Tale by G.Roven
11. 3:38 - A Dog Named Bodhisattva by Taylor Mali
12. 1:42 - Bottom's Dream by William Shakespeare
13. 0:45 - New Yorkers by Edward Field
14. 1:03 - Self-Improvement by Tony Hoagland (abridged)
15. 0:08 - Beautiful Woman by A.R. Ammons
16. 4:02 - My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
17. 3:46 - Grosz by Arnold Weinstein (abridged)
18. 1:37 - Sun and Fun by John Betjeman
19. 2:15 - Life Story by Tennessee Williams
20. 1:02 - To a Friend Whose Work Has Come … by Anne Sexton
21. 1:20 - Song of a Hopeful Heart by Dorothy Parker
22. 0:14 - Die while you are alive by Shido Bunan
23. 1:47 - Afternoon in School - The Last … by D.H. Lawrence
24. 0:11 - Musical Interlude - Sound and Fury by G.Roven
25. 3:18 - Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
26. 3:51 - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (excerpt)
27. 5:09 - Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
28. 0:08 - Musical Interlude - A Dish for the Gods by G.Roven
29. 0:56 - Myth by Muriel Rukeyser
30. 1:08 - An Ancient Gesture by Edna St. Vincent Millay
31. 3:04 - Paradise Lost (Eve) by John Milton
32. 3:14 - Mary by William Blake
33. 2:30 - To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
34. 1:34 - Job Application by Meryn Cadell
35. 0:27 - she lived by Lucille Clifton
36. 1:16 - Love Song by Dorothy Parker
37. 4:33 - A Prayer for My Daughter by W.B. Yeats

DISC 3:
01. 0:12 - Musical Interlude - To Thine Own Self by G.Roven
02. 1:18 - If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden
03. 2:38 - On Behalf of Trees by Zoe Caldwell
04. 1:14 - The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
05. 1:24 - "Any fool can get into an ocean..." by Jack Spicer
06. 0:35 - Barking by Jim Harrison | read by Deidra O'Connell
07. 0:51 - Sonnet 138 by William Shakespeare
08. 1:30 - Terra Incognita by D.H. Lawrence
09. 1:11 - To What You Said by Walt Whitman
10. 0:58 - If by Rudyard Kipling
11. 0:08 - Musical Interlude - The Dogs of War by G.Roven
12. 1:54 - Waiting for the Barbarians by C.P. Cavafy
13. 4:34 - Correspondence by Ariel Dorfman
14. 2:44 - An Undoing World by Tony Kuschner
15. 2:12 - The Bearer of Evil Tidings by Robert Frost
16. 0:34 - Fire and Ice by Robert Frost | read by Marc Kudisch
17. 1:22 - The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
18. 3:29 - Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
19. 2:32 - Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
20. 0:17 - Musical Interlude - Immortal Longings
21. 0:41 - The Walk by Thomas Hardy
22. 1:00 - When I have fears that I may cease to be by John Keats
23. 0:53 - Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
24. 0:50 - Men at Forty by Donald Justice
25. 1:03 - Conversion by Billy Collins
26. 2:16 - A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne
27. 1:21 - Doctor Frolic by Robert Pinsky
28. 2:09 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
29. 1:58 - Elegy in a Theatrical Warehouse by Kenneth Fearing
30. 0:53 - Spring and Fall by Gerard Manley Hopkins
31. 1:34 - Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay
32. 1:01 - Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
33. 1:10 - When You Are Old and Grey by W.B. Yeats
34. 0:57 - Remember by Christina Rossetti
35. 1:02 - Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
36. 1:51 - On Death by Kahlil Gibran
37. 1:03 - Mezzo Cammin by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
38. 0:54 - Not Waving but Drowning by Stevie Smith
39. 0:52 - Crossing the Bar by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
40. 1:03 - Invictus by William Ernest Henley
41. 1:57 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, ... by William Shakespeare
42. 0:48 - In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
43. 0:51 - Our revels now are ended by William Shakespeare
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