Poet Henri Cole selected the poems from the Paris Review archive for our Daily Poem newsletter for April 18-24.  Here he reads his selections.

Henri Cole Reads "Lying In A Hammock At A Friend's Farm..." by James Wright from The Paris Review

Henri Cole Reads "Epigraph For A Banned Book" by Charles Baudelaire, Trans. by Richard Howard

Poet Christian Bok reads his selections from the archive of The Paris Review.

Listen to Mary McCarthy read from her novel ‘The Group’ at the 92nd Street Y in 1963. (Introduction by Dwight Macdonald.)

John Ashbery, courtesy of the 92nd Street Y

The American playwright August Wilson speaks about Martin Luther King Jr. at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in a recording from 1991.