Guys Reading Poems intertwines poetry from 17 writers with its film narrative, including work by:
William Blake
Bertolt Brecht
Richard Corbet
Emily Dickinson
Thomas Gray
Thomas Hardy
Ben Jonson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Harold Monro
Sir Walter Scott
Sara Teasdale
Chidiock Tichborne
Walt Whitman
William Wordsowrth
W.B. Yeats
Most of the poetry is public domain work from deceased authors, but the film includes poems from two writers living and working in Los Angeles. They are: