Komunyakaa, along with many international poets, can be heard reading several poems in the Rhino/World Beat CD entitled Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (2000).

As part of the acclaimed Lannan Foundation series of readings, Komunyakaa reads from Thieves of Paradise and is filmed in conversation with poet Tori Derricotte in this one-hour video.

"Ode to a Drum" is set to music, along with several other poems, in the CD Love Notes from the Mad House (1998). The CD is a collaboration between Komunyakaa and saxophonist John Tchicai.