PoetryAloud

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Many of the poets on Tweetspeak VerseWrights read or perform their own works. Below is a list of poets who have contributed either an audio or a video of one of their poems. You will also see the headphone icon (☊) on some of the poems throughout the site. Click on the headphones and you will be taken to a performance version of the poem.

Tweetspeak VerseWrights also features poets reading the poems of other poets published here. Those performances appear below as well.

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David Adès, "To You, Reader of This Poem" (audio)
Naki Akrobettoe, "A Poem That Healed," (audio)
John Alwyine-Mosely, "A dead man when a tree cries," (audio)
Ramesh Anand, "Overspill: A Tanka Sequence," (audio)
​Ramesh Anand, "Pink Blosson: A Tanka Sequence," (audio)
Ramesh Anand, "Spring Again: A Haiku Sequence," (audio)
Ramesh Anand, "Autumn Wrinkles: A Haiku Sequence," (audio)
Mark Dennis Anderson, "That Thing About Inner Life," (audio)
Charles Bane, Jr., "Come, Beloved" (video)
L.L.Barkat, "Return to Sloansville," (audio)
L.L. Barkat, "The Watchers," (audio)
Gary Beck, "Proportionate Response," (audio)
Amy Billone, "First Words," (audio)
Amy Billone, "Paris to London" (audio)
John Blair, "Superman," (audio)
Ashley Bovan, "As You Are, So It Is," (video)
Charlie Brice, "Chasing Jesus," (audio)
Charlie Brice, "Put Them All Together," (audio)
Judith Brice, "Chiaroscuros," (audio)
Rhonda L. Brockmeyer, "Villanelle: Within These Hands," (audio)
Tim Buck, "situation," (audio)
Tim Buck, "Autumn," (audio) reader: Heather Primrose
Sherry Chandler, "Homeplace with Birds and Trees," (audio)
​David Chorlton, "Morning Encounter," (audio)
Jacqueline Czel, "The Poet in Love," (video) reader: E. Michael     .....Desilets
Jerry Danielsen, "The Little Chair," (video)
E. Michael Desilets, "Jazzing the Accelerator," (audio)
E. Michael Desilets, "The Boston and Albany Gang" (video)
E. Michael Desilets, "Bing Guy," (audio)
Maureen Doallas, "Fault the Light ~ A Contemporary Ghazal,"      .....(audio)
Maureen Doallas, "Few Precious Words~A Villanelle," (audio)
Judith Dorian, "On a Moon Fragrant Night," (audio)
Angele Ellis, "my invisible woman," (audio)
Lupe Eyde-Tucker, "First," (audio)
Danielle Favorite, "Drawstring," (video)
E.H. Ford, "Ain't Mine Blues," (video)
M.D. Friedman, "Girl Braiding Hair," (video)
M.D. Friedman, "Finding My Own Moon," (audio)
Anne Graue, "The Armadillos," (audio)
Allison Grayhurst, "Under the Bushel," (audio)
Allison Grayhurst, "End of Reason," (audio)
Allison Grayhurst, "Funeral Wake," (audio)
Allison Grayhurst, "Son of no one," (audio)
Ann Huang, "Sarah," (audio)
Ann Huang, "Upstairs in Real Life," (audio)
Foster Cameron Hunter, "Spoiled Milk," (audio)
Mike Jewett. "Blue Moon Over 7-11," (audio) reader: Foster .....Cameron Hunter
Michael Lee Johnson, "Apparently, David," (audio)
Michael Lee Johnson, "The Drifter," (audio)
Michael Lee Johnson, "Possum Slim," (audio)
Collin Kelley, "Render," (audio)
Collin Kelley, "Knoxville: Summer, 1982," (audio)
Collin Kelley, "Atonement," (audio)
Collin Kelley, "Victoria Gate," (audio)
Collin Kelley, "English Pastoral," (audio)
Robert King, "Comparisons," (audio)
Robert King, "At Fifteen," (audio)
Robert King, "On History," (audio)
Lee Kisling, "Ride Lonesome," (video)
​​​​Daniel Klawitter, "Hell," (audio)​

​Daniel Klawitter, "Overflow & Commitment," (audio)
​EJ Koh, "Clearance," (audio)
Don Krieger, "Dream Street," (audio)
Joanna Suzanne Lee, "two good wanderers," (video)
Richard Levine, "Reaching the Horizon," (audio)
Lucy Logsdon, "Twisted," (audio)
Lucy Logsdon, "My Last Poem," (audio)
Stuart McPherson, "Three Words," (audio)
Paul Mortimer, "Sheep Spine," (audio)
Paul Mortimer, "Silence," Visions sent downstream," (video)
Paul Mortimer, "Memory Bank," (video)
Robert Nied, "The Ride Home," (audio)
Robert Nied, "Judged," (audio)
Robert Nied, "Resolution," (audio)
Carey Rose O'Connell, "The Feaster," (audio)
Kerry O'Connor, "Contemplating people, I have observed," (audio)
Kerry O'Connor, "The Trees Held Their Silence," (audio)
Kerry O'Connor, "The Handflower," (audio)
​Scott Thomas Outlar, "One Night Pass," (audio)
Victor Perrotti, "existential crossroads," (audio)
Victor Perrotti, "two faces," (audio)
Leslie Philibert, "A Blind Man Looks at the Sea," (audio) reader: Eusebeia .....Philos
Eusebeia Philos, "Wedding Dancing," (audio) reader: Val Dering Rojas
Luke Prater, "Small Things," (audio)
Luke Prater, "Alice," (audio)
Luke Prater, "Scruples," (video)
Luke Prater, "be-all," (audio)
Luke Prater, "Melanie Brown," (audio)
Mary Anne Rojas, "one day," (video)
Mary Anne Rojas, "you will want to avoid it," (video)
Mary Anne Rojas, "October," (video)
Val Dering Rojas, "When the Morphine Wears Away," (audio) reader:  .....Rowan Taw
Rosa Saba, "in time, in rhythm," (audio)
Rosa Saba, "a love that tried to love back," (audio)
Christopher Sanderson, "This is Just," (audio)
Paul Sands, "rise," (audio)
Paul Sands, "Squib," (audio)
Paul Sands, "Painted into a Corner," (audio)
Carl Sharpe, "The Sister Tree," (video)
Carl Sharpe, "grief, like children," (audio) reader: Rhonda L. Brockmeyer
Debbie Strange, "for Calum," (audio)
Debbie Strange, "folding," (audio)
Debbie Strange, "Bread," (audio)
Emily Strauss, "Moon Light" (audio)
Emily Strauss, "Magenta Curves" (audio)
Polly Stretton, "First Love," (audio)
Kim Talon, "The Memory Tree," (audio) reader: Robert King
Rowan Taw, "The wrong vehicle for this town," (video) reader: Paul .....Mortimer
Rowan Taw, "Betty Stogs on Modern Life," (audio)
Rowan Taw, "Jedi Skills of Grace, My Chinese-Buddhist Sister," (audio)
Rowan Taw,"The Wrong Winter," (audio)
Rowan Taw, "When," (audio)
Rowan Taw, "Sister Mary's Eyebrows," (audio)
J Matthew Waters, "Boomerang," (audio)
J Matthew Waters, "new moon rising," (audio) reader: Reka Jellema
J Matthew Waters, "flash powder," (audio)
J Matthew Waters, "the violin and the piano," (audio)
J Matthew Waters, "charting the free verse sky," (audio)
j Matthew Waters, "the alpha wizard," (audio)
J Matthew Waters, "as if I had been there," (audio)
Clarence Wolfshohl, "The Woman Who Took Everything to Heart," (audio)
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