The author of Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove, 2003) and The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010) reads "The New Hymns" as part of the Brooklyn Poets Reading Series on September 21.

He should probably stick to acting. Watch Tom Hanks perform his poem about the 1990s sitcom "Full House" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

The poet, whose newest poetry collection, Stag's Leap, was published by Knopf in September, recently read "The Worst Thing" on the PBS NewsHour.

The author of The House on Mango Street read earlier this year at the Guadelupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio as part of the Librotraficante Caravan.

"Cowboy poet" Jane Morton reads her poem "Prairie Fire" at the Out of the Ashes: Words of Rebirth, Healing, and Hope poetry gathering in Colorado Springs on July 11, 2012.

Actor Bill Murray read two poems by Wallace Stevens at Bubby's Brooklyn as part of Poets House's seventeenth annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge last month.

Touch Press's new iPad app, The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, presents all 154 sonnets along with notes, commentary, and interviews with experts, plus captivating peformances by full-throated actors such as Patrick Stewart and, seen here reading Sonnet 130, Stephen Fry.

The new poet laureate is seen here reading "Theories of Time and Space" at last year's Oxford Conference for the Book in Oxford, Mississippi.

It may be Ocho de Mayo, but it's not too late to watch Naomi Shihab Nye read her poem "Cinco de Mayo" (from Transfer, published by BOA Editions last year) for PBS NewHour's Weekly Poem.

This video, for Mark Strand's "The Poem of the Spanish Poet," was filmed in the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s New York City apartment and features animation by director and animation artist Juan Delcan.