In this 2011 video, poet Kevin Young reads from his collection Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Random House, 2011) at the Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.

The author of five poetry collections, including Ghost in a Red Hat, which was just published by W. W. Norton, Rosanna Warren reads “Aftermath,” one in a series of elegies she wrote the for poet Deborah Tall, who died of breast cancer in 2006. This reading took place on March 7, 2011 at Nyack College.

In this rather raw clip, Nick Demske responds to the political situation in Wisconsin, where tens of thousands of protesters—some of them on tractors—descended on the state Capitol over the weekend, with a poem.

Poet Nikky Finney, who is profiled in the current issue of Poets & Writers Magazine, reads "Penguin, Mullet, Bread" from her collection Head Off & Split, published this month by TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press.

Last week Maxine Hong Kingston, whose memoir, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, was published in January by Knopf, and Leslie Marmon Silko, author of the memoir The Turquoise Ledge (Viking, 2010), read together at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

Leslie C. Chang, one of the twelve authors featured in the sixth annual debut poets roundup, reads from her poetry collection on March 23, 2010, at Fordham University as part of the Poets Out Loud series.

In this footage of Al Alvarez's 1967 interview with John Berryman in Dublin, the poet talks about some of the techniques he employed in 77 Dream Songs, which had won the Pulitzer Prize three years earlier, and reads "Dream Song 14." Berryman commited suicide on January 7, 1972.

Paul Auster reads from his sixteenth novel, Sunset Park, published earlier this month by Henry Holt.

The late poet Lucille Clifton reads at the 2008 Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. This year's festival, which will take place in Newark, New Jersey, begins on October 7.

Russian anchorwoman Tina Kandelaki speed-recites a poem by Joseph Brodsky while driving over 150 miles per hour. Why? Because she can.