Dead Poets -- Live From The Grave

Joyce Brinkman reads "The Rival"

"The Hoosier Poet", James Whitcomb Riley, had a bigger funeral than Michael Jackson. Hear Joyce Brinkman read his poem "The Rival" from his magnificent hilltop tombstone in Indianapolis.

"The Rival" By James Whitcomb Riley from Walter on Vimeo.

Forty-Three Readings at Poets' Graves Online

We have now posted forty-three (43) videos of readings and adventures from the gravesites of famous American poets. Journey to the graves of Elizabeth Bishop, James Dickey, Gwendolyn Brooks, Theodore Roethke, Henry Timrod, Robert Penn Warren, Carl Sandburg and many more.

New Webliography of Videos at Poet's Graves

We've begun a webliography page that lists links to online videos related to the graves of poets. So far we have Whitman, Plath, Virgilio, Kerouac, Neruda, and others.

If you know of a link to a video of someone reading at a poet's grave, or just of footage of a poet's grave, please send them along to, picsvids {at} deadpoes DOT org

"For Jim, Easter Eve" By Anne Spencer

Hear Lynchburg, VA poet and professor, Jim Peterson, introduce Anne Spencer and then read and discuss her poem "For Jim, Easter Eve" (The Jim in the poem refers to her friend and fellow poet, James Weldon Johnson.)

4th of July at Henry Timrod's Grave

Join the celebration of July 4th, 2009, in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, at the gravesite of "The Poet of the Confederacy," Henry Timrod.

"Little Orphant Allie" By James Whitcomb Riley

Visit the boyhood home of James Whitcomb Riley in Greenfield, Indiana, and the grave of the original Little Orphant Annie, in the Philadelphia Methodist cemetery just down the road. Hear "Little Orphan Annie" recited in the very kitchen she used to work in when she and Riley were childhood friends. (The original title of the famous poem was "The Elf Child," then Riley changed it to "Little Orphant Allie" A printer's error was responsible for the final title. The book was selling well and Riley agreed with his printer to keep the mistake as the title.)

Sylvia Plath reads November Graveyard

This is a YouTube video of Sylvia Plath reading November Graveyard in the very graveyard she ended up being buried in.