The International Readers of Homer is a literary arts organization dedicated to great poetry read aloud by any person who wishes to do so. Our audience participation readings of the Iliad and the Odyssey bring the classics alive as we all share the joy and power of hearing and performing the great epic together. Our message is always one of peace as we learn in the poems about courage, compassion, humanity, and the tragic cost of war.
In honor of our beloved Founder, Kathryn Hohlwein, we are thrilled to announce a memorial reading of the Iliad at Vivarium Novum – Italy's preeminent academy for classical studies, in Frascati, Italy. The reading will feature Latin, Ancient Greek, Italian, and the languages of the world.
JUNE 13, 2026
Image credit: National Galleries of Scotland
The ongoing worldwide community Homer readings [are] among the most moving — shall I say necessary? — of cultural experiences I’ve witnessed, ever.
- Mark Head, Foreign Crisis Consultant, Remote Area Medical,
San Francisco Iliad 2023, Athens Odyssey 2017
Looking for the Korean translation of my passage I discovered several translations and analysis of Homer in my mother tongue and ended up reading for about it for two days!
- Hyung Sok K., Korea
I've never had the experience
of living inside a poem like that before...
- David Kashuba, Sacramento
We brought our 10 year-old son to listen to Homer for half an hour and he stayed put for 10 full hours!! He insisted on getting on stage to read and he was so excited by the experience he can't wait for you to come back with the Odyssey.
- Panagiotis Ν., Cyprus