reVerse

For a guy who isn't particularly into poetry (other than Philip Levine and David Berman), I'm rather intrigued by the audio verse collection reVerse, a collection of "poems, songs and poem-songs" from both established and emerging poets and songwriters. Lou Reed is the contributor who first caught my eye, but there's several others of interest here as well, including Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Mark Strand. Full list is as follows:

"Echo And Shadow", Li-Young Lee
"Skyscraper (Delux)", K.C. (Kenneth) Clarke
"Shed", Linnaeus
"What It Was", Mark Strand
"Take Off Your Shoes (and Run)", Marvin Tate
"Possession of the Field", Elise Paschen
"Evolution", Cin Salach
"Green Man", Richard Fammerée
"History of the Airplane", Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"Song for You", Alexi Murdoch
"Spectacle: Possession", Simone Muench
"It's About Time", Kent Foreman
"Words Are My Salvation", Sherrille Lamb
"The City and the Sea", Lou Reed

The CD can be purchased here, with MP3 downloads available here and streaming audio here. A portion of the CD's sales benefit The Poetry Center of Chicago's Hands on Stanzas program, which hires poets to teach in Chicago's inner-city schools, and enables students to discuss and read poetry, and write and perform their own poems. More info on reVerse is available at its website.