Kioni "Popcorn" Marshall, who has been writing poetry since the age of five and performing at New York City venues since she was nine, reads her poem "Love."

The author of When My Brother Was an Aztec (Copper Canyon Press, 2012) and one of the twelve debut poets selected by Rigoberto González to be featured in the current issue of the magazine, reads a poem on the PBS NewHour.

Listen to this 1985 recording of Orson Welles reading “The Secret Sharer," a story by Joseph Conrad. “I think I’m made for Conrad,” Welles once said. “I think every Conrad story is a movie.”

“What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses, and birds.” Listen to a reading of “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart,” by poet Jack Gilbert, who died on Tuesday in Berkeley, California, at the age of eighty-seven. His Collected Poems was published by Knopf in March.

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.