Poems for Two Voices

Poems for two voices are poems written specifically for two people or groups to perform out loud together. Each person reads some lines solo, and they read some lines together.

You’ll notice right off that these poems have a special format on the page. Generally, one speaker’s lines are in a column at the left. The second speaker’s lines are in a column at the right. And lines that they speak in unison are in a center column (sometimes in bold).

I think there are circumstances in which these poems work especially well.

Read this entire column here in a .pdf file