"By the time you're done, your biggest problem may be that you wish there was more." WALL STREET JOURNAL "The definitive anthology of poets reading their own work." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "This grand immersion in poetry follows the best-selling Poetry Speaks (2001) and includes a never-before-published and truly thrilling recording of James Joyce reading "Anna Livia Plurabelle" from Finnegans Wake. Book and CDs work beautifully together, kindling deeper appreciation for the transmuting power of poetry, a practice of discipline, skill, and magic." - BOOKLIST .,."The prose comes to life when read aloud, especially when you hear James Joyce read it himself." NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED host Jacki Lyden "This tome is a reminder how the human spirit is capable of finding an outlet in oppressive times, how poetry can help explain why we do what we do as a thinking people...Certainly, in our struggle to make sense out of what we do not understand, Poetry Speaks Expanded helps on so many levels." Carol Hoenig, THE HUFFINGTON POST

Author Biography

Elise Paschen is the author of Houses: Coasts and Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and the co-founder of "Poetry in Motion," a nationwide program that places poetry in subways and buses. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestselling Poetry Speaks to Children. Rebekah Presson Mosby was nominated for a Grammy for her work as producer / editor of the 4CD box set, Poetry on Record: 98 Poets Read Their Work (1888-2006) and also edited the groundbreaking Rhino Records poetry box sets, In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry and Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work.