The International Readers of Homer is a literary arts organization dedicated to great poetry read aloud in communal settings.  Our marathon audience-participation readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey bring the classics alive and share the joy and power of performing epic poetry.

great poetry

  in your voice

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The ongoing worldwide community Homer readings [are] among the most moving — shall I say necessary? — of cultural experiences I’ve witnessed. Ever.

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- Mark Head, Foreign Crisis Consultant, Remote Area Medical, Athens 2017

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I've never had the experience

of living inside a poem like that before...

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              - David Kashuba, Sacramento 2012