The PALABRA Archive includes recordings with renowned poets and writers from the Luso-Hispanic world and other regions with Hispanic and Portuguese heritage populations. Curators in the Library of Congress' Hispanic Reading Room make selections for the archive based on the writers' and poets' literary achievements and distinction.

The lists below include all authors represented in the archive. An asterisk ( * ) indicates that the recording is digitized and can be streamed online. All other names link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.