Welcome to the first installment of Lit Genius Audio! This will be an ongoing series in which LG contributors record the literary works they love best. As with everything on this site, you're welcome to participate.

Sit back and let the genius wash over you.

1. William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun")"

2. Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Sonnet XLIII ("What lips my lips have kissed...")"

3. William Butler Yeats, "Adam's Curse"

4. Walt Whitman, "Adieu to a Soldier"

5. Gonçalves Dias, "Canção do exílio"

6. William Empson, "Villanelle ('It is the pain')"

7. Arthur Rimbaud, "Vowels"

8. Pablo Neruda, "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII"

Plus: PG contributors record their own work...