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key
Carnal Knowledge (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Case History (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Origin of Music (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Pathology of Colours (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Stethoscope (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
PBS Online News Hour, September 4, 1996,
Interview (transcript)
Full Moon (text)
Them (text)
What the Dead Fear (text)
UC San Diego, 2001 Reading (site)
Anthem (NPR) July 17, 1999 (site)
Lunch Poems Reading at UC Berkeley (site)
Soon To Be a National Geographic Special (site)
Why We Play Basketball (site)
New York Heavyweight Bout (mp3) (site)
(Sherman Alexie reads &Vibratto8 and Patricia Smith
reads & For John Coltrane 8)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 28, 2000 (site)
The Connection (NPR) July 3, 2000 (site)
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
The Purse-Seiner Atlantis (RA & mp3) (text)
The Litany of Disparagement (text)
Memo from the Desk of Wallace Stevens (text)
Poem For My 60th Birthday (text)
The Report (text)
And Then [excerpt] (text)
Brochure (text)
The Church of Unreasonable Doubt (text)
Flesh (text)
In Praise of Lions (text)
Losing Containment (text)
Postcard from Purgatorio (text)
Rednecks and the Men Who Love Them (text)
Thought Tanks (text)
Eyesight (.wav) (site) (off-site
text)
Informing Dynamics (wmp) (text)
Morning Edition (NPR) February 27, 2001 (site)
Obituary, reading In Memorium for May Novelet (sp?)
Womanhood (text)
Devo Habit (RA & RA download) (site)
I Knew the Signs by Their Tents (site)
(off-site text)
Whitney Museum reading (site)
Crease
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)
Million Man March Poem (QT) (site)
(off-site
text)
Million Man March Poem (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Pulse of Morning (.au) (site
sort of) (off-site
text)
inaugural poem, January 1993
Phenomenal Woman (site) (off-site
text)
Phenomenal Woman (site)
(off-site
text)
Sepia Fashion Show (site)
(off-site
text)
Sepia Fashion Show (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Signifying (RA download) (site)
Signifying (QT) (site)
To A Man (site)
(off-site
text)
To A Man (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)
on Sesame Street (QT) (site)
Wired for Books Interview (site)
World (text)
Wake Up (.wav) (text)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)
on Emily Dickinson (site)
At North Farm (text)
My Erotic Double (RA download) (site)
The link is incorrect on site. Listen here.
My Philosophy of Life (text)
Sleepers Awake (site)
Soonest Mended (RA download) (site)
Two Scenes (text)
What is Poetry (.wav) (text)
When Half the Time They Don't Know Themselves... (text)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
After Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
(text)
The Aliens (site)
As I Walked Out One Evening (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
As I Walked Out One Evening (site)
(off-site
text)
As I Walked Out One Evening (site)
(off-site
text)
August 1968 (off-site
text) with Moon Landing (off-site
text) (site)
IV. Autumn Song (site)
(off-site
text)
IV. Autumn Song (from Twelve Songs) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Common Life (site)
Death's Echo (site)
(off-site
text)
Epistle to a Godson (site)
The Fall of Rome (site)
(off-site
text)
Fish in the Unruffled Lakes (site)
(off-site
text)
Friday's Child (site)
Friday's Child (site)
In Memory of W. B. Yeats (site)
(off-site
text)
In Memory of W.B. Yeats (site)
(off-site
text)
from In Time of War (site)
Law Like Love (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Law Like Love (site)
(off-site
text)
Lines to Dr. Berk on the Occasion of His Retiring From General
Practice (site)
Metalogue to The Magic Flute (site)
Moon Landing (off-site
text) with August 1968 (off-site
text) (site)
The More Loving One (RA download) (text)
The More Loving One (site)
(off-site
text)
Musée des Beaux Arts (site)
(off-site
text)
A New Year Greeting (site)
A New Year Greeting (site)
On the Circuit (text)
On This Island (site)
Our Hunting Fathers (site)
O Where Are You Going? (site)
(off-site
text)
River Profile (site)
The Shield of Achilles (site)
(off-site
text)
Song of the Devil (site)
Talking to Dogs (site)
Talking to Mice (site)
Talking to Myself (site)
Thanksgiving for a Habitat (site)
Under Which Lyre (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Under Which Lyre (site)
(off-site
text)
A Walk After Dark (site)
(off-site
text)
A Walk After Dark (site)
(off-site
text)
The Wanderer (site)
92nd St. Y's Poetry Center reading (1972) (site)
- The Aliens
- A New Year Greeting
- Epistle to a Godson
- Lines to Dr. Berk on the Occasion of His Retiring From
General Practice
- Friday's Child
- IV. Autumn Song (from Twelve Songs) (off-site
text)
- The Fall of Rome (off-site
text)
- A Walk After Dark (off-site
text)
- Song of the Devil
- Metalogue to The Magic Flute
- Talking to Dogs
- Talking to Mice
- Talking to Myself
Poetry Reading New York (1964) (site)
Introduction by Marianne Moore
Books and Writers Interview 1971 (BBC) [2:56] (site)
Auden talks about the influence of Marx and Freud on his poetry,
the didactic nature of his work, the aim of the arts, the
importance of fun
Hans Keller (BBC) November 20, 1971 (site)
- recognising great art
- the musical treatment of poets' work
Ancestor (.wav) (site)
At Dawn (.wav) (site)
Crying Poem (.wav) (text)
El Gato (.wav) (text)
Grandma (mp3 & m3u) (site)
I Called It Love (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Little Girl (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Parting Words (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Sanctuary (.wav) (site)
Set This Book On Fire (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Tire Shop (.wav) (text)
Transvestite Poem #1 (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Transvestite Poem #2 (mp3 & m3u) (site)
What Kind of Poem Is Appropriate? (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Poetry reading (site)
PBS Online Newshour, August 9, 2001, Interview (site)
two new books, Healing Earthquakes and A Place
to Stand
After Rain (text)
The Academic Cowards of Deception (RA download & mp3)
(site)
Bang, Bang Outishly (site)
Freedom Suite (for Sonny Rollins and Franz Kline) 1959 (site)
In Walked Bud (RA & mp3) (site)
Rhythim Blues (site)
Rhythim Blues (RA download & QT download) (site)
Shazam Doowah (site)
Shazam Doowah (RA download QT download) (site)
Wise, Why's Y's (site)
Best Minds Poetry Series (site)
- The Beginnings: Word as Notes & Beats
- The Mind of the President
- Masked Angel Costume
Jazz Perspectives (site)
Literature of Life (PBS) (site)
- Part 1: on writing in the 50's
- Part 2: Poem (title unknown)
Morning Edition (NPR) May 25, 2001 (site)
reading When Miles Split as tribute to Miles Davis
Fossils (text)
Joy (text)
Teaching the Slider (text)
The Lather (text)
Thumbnail Sketch of the Tulip Mania (text)
Abscission Leaf, Looking into Water (text)
New Year's Day Nap (text)
Silo, Spring Violets (text)
Spring Morning (text)
Whittling (text)
The Connection (NPR) November 22, 1999 (site)
on the Persian poet Rumi
Morning Edition (NPR) November 12, 2001 (site)
Job Disatisfaction (RA & RA download) (site)
Seasons (RA & RA download) (site)
Shit Piece (RA & RA download) (site)
Venedian Beseechers (performed by Zazil) May 8, 2001 (site)
Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1999 (site)
Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1997 (site)
Things the Deaf Boy Does Next Door (wmp) (text)
Dew at the Edge of the Leaf (wmp) [download] (site)
Dead Man (wmp) [download] (site)
The Dead Man's Late Nights (wmp) [download] (site)
Ending with a line from Lear (wmp) [download] (site)
Fireflies (wmp) [download] (site)
Initial Condition (wmp) [download] (site)
More Of The Dead Man's Late Nights (wmp) [download] (site)
The Mystery of Emily Dickinson (wmp) [download] (site)
One of the Animals (wmp) [download] (site)
Oneself [video] (wmp) [download] (site)
Oneself [audio only] (wmp) [download] (site)
Shakespeare Expected (wmp) [download] (site)
Sounds of the Resurrected Dead Man's Footsteps (wmp) [download]
(site)
(off-site
text)
That Swine are Intelligent (wmp) [download] (site)
Today Tibet (wmp) [download] (site)
To Dorothy (wmp) [download] (site)
(off-site
text)
Unless It Was Courage (wmp) [download] (site)
Wednesday (wmp) [download] (site)
White Clover (wmp) [download] (site)
(off-site
text)
Written During Depression: How
to be Happy (wmp) [download] (site)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000
Iowa Talks November 9, 2000 (site)
interview including the poems
- To Dorothy [7:35] (off-site text)
- My Hate [16:08]
- Today Tibet [21:45]
- Tomorrow Tibet [22:51]
- One of the Animals [25:53]
- About the Dead Man [32:09]
- More About the Dead Man [33:14]
- To No One in Particular [47:46]
Whad'Ya Know (WPR), September 23, 2000 (site)
- For Dorothy (off-site
text)
- one of the "Dead Man" poems
Poem (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Fireback with passion scenes... (QT & .aiff) (site) (site text)
The Hunt of the Frail Stag (QT & .aiff) (site)
(site
text)
On revelations (QT & .aiff) (site)
(site
text)
Memorial Day Reading (site)
with Anne Waldman
excerpts from Memorial Day (mp3) (site)
excerpts from The Sonnets (mp3) (site)
Today in Ann Arbor (mp3) (site)
Poetry Reading (1981) (site)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Jayber Crow
All Things Considered (NPR) December 24, 1998 (site)
- Window Poem #3
- Come Forth
- The Wild Rose (off-site
text)
Dream Song 1 (text)
Dream Song 1 (site)
(off-site
text)
Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)
1-100, 1969, [3:00] (mp3) (site)
Class, 1976, [10:30] (mp3) (site)
Goodnight, 1976, [1:00] (mp3) (site)
(with Susan Laufer)
My/My/My, 1976, [5:00] (mp3) (site)
Piffle (Breathing)" 1976, [7:00] (mp3) (site)
(with Susan Laufer and Greg Ball)
Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 2001 (site)
Cortland Review Interview (site)
- Introduction by David Lehman
- A Defense of Poetry
- Ruminative Ablution
- Poem Composed for Jackson Mac Low...
- Thinking I Think I Think
- An Affirmation
- Make it Snappy & That's Final
- from Every Which Way but Loose
- Hoods and Scatters
- The Boy Soprano
- Laurel's Eyes
- Death is the Cool Night
- dew and die
- The Impunity of Garden Flowers
- Like This
Poetry Reading (Reed College, 1991) (site)
In the Distances of Sleep (text)
Slutty (text)
Truncated Elegy (text)
When it was Always Dark (text)
Dark Night (text)
For Bill Nestrick (1940-96) (wmp) (text)
Guilty of Dust (text)
Love Incarnate (site)
(off-site
text)
To The Dead (text)
To the Dead (site)
(off-site
text)
Wired for Books Reading 2001 (site)
reading at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival
The Armadillo (text)
The Armadillo (site)
(off-site
text)
The Armadillo (site)
(off-site
text)
At the Fishhouses (site)
(off-site
text)
The Bight (site)
(off-site
text)
Casabianca (site)
(off-site
text)
Cirque D'Hiver (site)
Crusoe in England (site)
(off-site
text)
Filling Station (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Filling Station (site)
(off-site
text)
The Fish (RA & mp3) (site)
The Fish (site)
(off-site
text)
Five Flights Up (site)
(off-site
text)
The Gentleman of Shalott (site)
In the Waiting Room (RA & mp3) (site)
In the Waiting Room (site)
(off-site
text)
Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore (site)
(off-site
text)
Jerónimo's House (site)
Large Bad Picture (site)
(off-site
text)
The Man-Moth (text)
The Man-Moth (site)
(off-site
text)
Manuelzinho (.au &.wav) first four stanzas (site)
Manuelzinho (.au & .wav) last two stanzas (site)
The Map (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Map (site)
(off-site
text)
The Moose (RA & mp3) (site)
The Moose (site)
(off-site
text)
Poem (site)
Roosters (site)
Sandpiper (site)
(off-site
text)
Sleeping on the Ceiling (site)
Varick Street (site)
Visits to St. Elizabeths (site)
(off-site
text)
The Tree (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) October 6, 1997 (site)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1987) (site)
Charles Olson Lectures (Buffalo, 1987) (site)
Robert Duncan Lecture (Buffalo, 1996) (site)
Tired Sex (text)
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Early Morning Lake (RA download) (site)
Holes in Our Speech (RA download) (site)
On the Oregon Coast, for William Stafford (RA download) (site)
The Scandal (site)
Sometimes I Frighten that Boy, from A Man in Love with the
Setting Stars (mp3) (site)
Thoughts in the Cabin (RA download) (site)
from A Literary Friendship (RA download) (site)
excerpts from a discussion with William Stafford
- Early Roots
- Golden Threads
- Coincidence
- Simplicity and MTV
- Writing Poetry
- William Stafford's Work
Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)
Prairie Home Companion (site)
- Waking on a Farm
- When the Cat Stole the Milk
- The Day We Visited New Orleans
- Visiting Sand Island
- Conversation with a Mouse (off-site
text)
The Alchemist (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Dragonfly (site)
Blowtorch (text)
Meditation on a Line From Whitman (wmp) (text)
Only Music (text)
Stucco (text)
And Sometimes (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
from Motorized Razors (mp3) (site)
Seahorses and Flying Fish (mp3) (site)
Ubu Hubbub (mp3) (site)
Ursonate (mp3) (site)
Valuvëula (mp3) (site)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 2001) (site)
The Achill Woman (text)
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me (text)
Bright-Cut Irish Silver (text)
The Colonists (wmp) (text)
Daughter (wmp) (text)
Distances (text)
The Dolls Museum in Dublin (text)
The Emigrant Irish (text)
Envoi (text)
Fond Memory (text)
It's A Woman's World (text)
Lava Cameo (text)
Legends (text)
Limits (text)
Love (text)
Mise Eire (text)
The Mother Tongue (wmp) (text)
1. Night Feed (text)
An Old Steel Engraving (text)
Outside History (text)
The Parcel (text)
The Pomegranate (text)
That the Science of Cartography (text)
That the Science of Cartography (site)
(off-site
text)
The Singers (text)
What Love Intended (text)
What we Lost (text)
A Woman Painted on a Leaf (text)
Bird (text)
Diamond Sutra (text)
Outmate (text)
Nocturne At Bethesda (site)
Michael Boughn
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1986) (site)
A Little Herbal Primer (text)
Mystery of the Sphinx (text)
Ceremonial (text)
Have a Seat (text)
The Kindness of Bad Neighbors (text)
Listen (text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Loose Ends
I Remember (excerpt) (mp3) (site)
More I Remember More (excerpt) (mp3) (site)
A Season (site)
The Smile On The Face Of A Kouros (mp3) (site)
A Selection of Poems (1979) (site)
The Mother (site)
(off-site
text)
The Mother (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Near-Johannesburg Boy (site)
(off-site
text)
We Real Cool (text)
We Real Cool (text)
We Real Cool (site)
(off-site
text)
We Real Cool (site)
(off-site
text)
Poems from Harper Audio Listening Room (site)
- Kitchenette Building (text)
- Obituary for a Living Lady
- Saddie and Maude (off-site
text)
- Mathew Cole
- The Vacant Lot
- Queen of the Blues
Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) December 4, 2000, (site)
Obituary, remembers Gwendolyn Brooks and her work
- Kitchenette Building (recorded 1951) (offsite
text)
- The Children of the Poor (Part 4) (recorded 1986) (offsite
text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(Emily & I Are Absolutely Different In The Details Of
Our Lives)
Literature of Life (PBS) (site)
Morning Addition (NPR) December 4, 2000, Obituary (site)
PBS Online News Hour, December 5, 2000 (transcript)
two readings of We Real Cool in Memoriam
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
WBEZ Interview 1961 (NPR Chicago) (site)
[start 31:49]
Weekend Edition (NPR) Saturday, December 9, 2000 (site)
After Winter (site)
The Ballad of Joe Meek (site)
Break of Day (site)
Children's Children (site)
Cloteel (site)
Conjured (site)
Long Track Blues (site)
Ma Rainey (site)
Old Lem (site)
Parish Doctor (site)
Puttin' on Dog (site)
Remembering Nat Turner (site)
Sam Smiley (site)
Slim Greer in Hell (text)
Sporting Beasley (site)
Strong Men (site)
(off-site
text)
Transfer (site)
Uncle Joe (site)
Anthem (NPR) Callaloo Remembers Sterling Brown with Sonia
Sanchez (site)
Unknown recording (site)
Geography (mp3) (site)
Jet Set Melodrama (mp3) (site)
Monologue from the Top (mp3) (site)
Plunder (text)
Christ, You'll Never Know / The Closing of the Topless And
Bottomless Bars (mp3) (site)
Cloud Nine / I Live in a Neighborhood of Murderers / Two
Horse Collars (mp3) (site)
Dirty Old Bastard (RA download) [4:28] (site)
Fan Letter (RA & mp3) (site)
Grammer of Life (RA download) (site)
Just For Old Times Sake (RA download) [4:07] (site)
Just for old times sake (RA download) (site)
The Last Days of the Suicide Kid (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Light of Jesus (RA download) [1:06] (site)
The Poetry Reading [poem] (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Soldier, His Wife, And The Bum (RA & mp3) (site)
When All the Animals Lie Down (RA download) (site)
Interview with Bukowski [excerpt] (RA & mp3) (site)
Briggflatts (text)
Briggflatts (site)
(off-site
text)
Correspondence (text)
First Laws (wmp) (text)
The Odds (text)
Oeuvre, Spirulina, Mugwomp (wmp) (text)
Eads to Glinka (text)
Aida (wmp download) (site)
AIDS and the Poetry of Healing [prose] (wmp download) (site)
Allegory (wmp download) (site)
The Blackouts (text)
Camino Real [audio only & video] (wmp download) (site)
The Desire to Heal (wmp download) (site)
The Distant Moon (text)
The Distant Moon (wmp download) [prose] (site)
The Distant Moon (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Living with Illness (text)
The Farus College (wmp download) (site)
Madonna and Child (wmp) (text)
Millay's Echoes (wmp) (text)
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
(.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Oysters (wmp) (text)
Recognition (wmp download) (site)
Technology and Medicine (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Ten Patients and Another (wmp download) (site)
Towards Curing AIDS (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The X-Files (wmp download) (site)
What the Body Told (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Humid (wmp) (text)
Basket Ball Diary August 8, 1965 (RA & .au) (site)
from The Basketball Diaries (mp3) (site)
The Basketball Diaries, Age 13, Spring (mp3) (site)
Bobby's Death (RA & .au) (site)
Devil’s Toe (RA & .au) (site)
From a Diary, 1962 (RA & .au) (site)
It’s Been Hard (RA & .au) (site)
Little N.Y. Ode [fragment] (RA & .au) (site)
(off-site text)
New Poem (RA & .au) (site)
Sampling Nietzsche (RA & .au) (site)
Work, Not Play (QT) (site)
(off-site text)
Heroin [and other poems] (RA & mp3) (site)
- Herion (off-site
text)
- The Birth and Death of the Sun
- Prell (off-site
text)
- New York City Variations [excerpts]
Dennis Miller Show Interview, 1992 (site)
Interview [excerpt] (RA & .au) (site)
NBC Today Show Interview, May 6, 1999 (site)
Talks about Frank O’Hara (site)
Talks about new novel (RA & .au) (site)
Talks about Trinity School (QT) (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, August 7, 1997 (RA download) (site)
Youthing (text)
Freeway 280 (text)
Summer Ends Too Soon (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) January 18, 1999 (site)
Fooling with Words (PBS) Interview (QT) (site)
Field Notes (text)
Gethsemane (text)
Hansel and Gretel: The Abstract (text)
Miscarriage (text)
She Doesn't Care What you Say About Her, Just so Long as
you Spell Her Name Right (text)
The Visitor (text)
Poem (wmp) (text)
The Sensible Present Has Duration (wmp) (text)
The Barbarians Are Coming (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
How I Got That Name (text)
How I Got That Name (site)
(off-site
text)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 26, 1999 (site)
- Song of the Sad Guitar
- The Floral Apron (off-site
text)
Venice Declares War on Pigeons (text)
Depressed by a Review, I Walk Toward the Mall (text)
Pomp, circumstance, and other songs of a lifetime (text)
Pomp, circumstance, and other songs of a lifetime
(QT download) (text)
Reading the M.R.I. Report, the Retired Pastor Considers Dementia
(text)
Naming a Wildflower, a Mountain, a Night (text)
A Hermit Thrush (text)
Lindenbloom (text)
Times Square Water Music (text)
Urn-Burial and the Butterfly Migration (text)
Fløde (text)
Male/Female (wmp) (text)
Riverside Ghazal (text)
Snow-in-Summer (an ode) (wmp) (text)
Little Aria (mp3) (site)
Admonitions (site)
(off-site
text)
Admonitions (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Atlantic Bones (site)
Cruelty (site)
Cruelty (RA download & QT download) (site)
Cutting Greens (text)
Homage to My Hips (text)
Homage to my Hips (site)
(off-site
text)
Lucy (part 6) (site)
won't you celebrate with me (QT) (text)
Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)
Poetry Reading (Unknown Recording)
(site)
Bookworm on KCRW, October 17, 1995 (site)
Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)
WBFO's Spoken Arts (site)
Long Pond, Fall (text)
Small Disgruntled Meditation (text)
Black Camellia (text)
Childless (text)
Horses (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) January 24, 1999 (site)
- White Spine
- Peonies
- Horses (off-site
text)
I Live For My Car (site)
Ms. Sambo and the Tigers (.aiff) (site)
Nigger Rhythm Rhymes From The Blues Part Of Town (site)
They Will Starve You (mp3) (site)
The Swimmer (wmp) (text)
Brave Sparrow (wmp) (text)
Public Interest Interview (NPR) May 10, 2001 (site)
the new Maryland Poet Laureate
Another reason why I don't keep a gun in the house (text)
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House (text)
(site)
The Art of Drowning (text)
The Best Cigarette (text)
Candlehat (text)
Child Development (text)
Consolation (text)
Forgetfulness (text)
Forgetfulness (site)
(off-site
text)
The First Dream (text)
Flames (text)
The Iron Bridge (text)
I Ask You (text)
I Chop Some Parsley (site)
(off-site text)
Invention (text)
Japan (text)
Man Listening to Disc (text)
Marginalia (text)
Neither Snow (text)
Nightclub (site)
(off-site
text)
Nostalgia (text)
Nostalgia (site)
(off-site
text)
On Turning Ten (site)
(off-site text)
Pinup (text)
Snow Day (text)
Thesaurus (text)
This Much I Do Remember (site)
Walking across the Atlantic (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 4, 2001 (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 4, 2001 (site)
(off-site text)
Another Reason I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House
Fresh Air (NPR) September 26, 2001 (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) April 7, 2000 (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) April 7, 1998 (site)
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Quintana Roo Beach 6 am (site)
Sophisticated Prose (.wav) (text)
The Flashboat [download RealJukebox] (site)
In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman
[download RealJukebox] (site)
Rent (text)
Rent [download RealJukebox] (site)
(off-site
text)
Three Poems [download RealJukebox] (site)
- The Blue Anchor
- The Earthquake
- Ordinary Detail
The Winter Road (Part 4) [download RealJukebox] (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) June 29, 2000 (site)
- Rent (off-site
text)
- The Blue Anchor
Stephen Cope
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1998) (site)
As in the Days of the Prophets (text)
Central and Main (text)
Jigsaw Puzzle in Pregnancy (text)
Patio (text)
Asynchronic (wmp) (text)
The Dead Sea (wmp) (text)
Photography (wmp) (text)
A Window on the Strait of San Juan De Fuca (text)
Marriage (mp3) (site) (off-site text)Marriage
(mp3) (site) (off-site text)
Naropa University reading (1987) (site)
reading selected poems from Gasoline, Long Live
Man, and The Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit.
(with introduction by Allen Ginsberg)
All Things Considered (NPR) January 21, 2001 (site)
Tom Vitale pays tribute to Beat poet Gregory Corso
Alabama (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Anatomy Lesson (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Appetite (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Complications (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Dust of the West (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast: in memory of Albert Abrams,
an American quack (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Finches (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Irene (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Jerusalem (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Man with Stars Inside Him (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Medicine Stone (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
My Uganda (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Power of Inclination (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Resurrection Trade (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Shall Inherit (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Six Hundred Pound Man (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Sunsets (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Tumbleweed (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Worm: Elderside Clinic, Jamaica (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Accident (text)
Body on the Brain (wmp) (text)
The Dread Museum (wmp) (text)
Everyone Who Left Us (text)
In the Blue Room (wmp) (text)
The Night We Knew for Sure (text)
Villanelle After a Burial (text)
Word Gets Around (wmp) (text)
Echo (site)
Echo (RA download) (site)
First Love (site)
First Love (RA download) (site)
First Love (mp2) (site)
First Love (.wav) (site)
For Gregory Corso (wmp) (text)
from Histoire De Florida (.wav) (text)
from Histoire De Florida (mp3) (text)
I Know A Man (text)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud [clip] (site)
from the Album Have We Told You All You'd Thought To Know?
by Cuneiform Records
Just in Time (site)
Just in Time (RA download) (site)
The Language (text)
The Messenger for Allen Ginsberg / I Know a Man (mp3) (site) (off-site text)
Still Life Or (text)
Thinking (site)
(off-site
text)
Thinking (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Windows (site)
Windows (RA download) (site)
Windows (mp2) (site)
Windows (.wav) (site)
UC of Berkeley, May 11, 1976 Interview/Reading
(some poor quality) (site)
Evening of Poetry SUNY Buffalo (site)
Kelly Writer's House Reading (site)
Poetry Reading (NYC, 1966) (site)
Intro by Ed Sanders
Poetry Reading (Helsinki, 1989. Taped intro by Anselm Hollo)
(site)
WBFO Reading (RA download) (site)
The Connection, (WBUR) January 4, 2000 (site)
Kelly Writer's House Interview (site)
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download & mp2) (site)
Wired for Books Interview (site)
Heritage (text)
Heritage (site)
(off-site text)
Accident (text)
On Seeing Keats' Deathroom (text)
Starling Road (text)
The Unchurching of Brooklyn (text)
Visiting the Pyramids (text)
anyone lived in a pretty how town, excerpt (wmp) (site)
Let's From Some Loud Unworld's Most Rightful Wrong (site)
That Melancholy (site)
why must itself up every of a park (text)
Poems from Harper Audio Listening Room (site)
reading death must as Santa Clause
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (mp3) (site)
The All-American Vampire or How the Bee Sucks (mp3) (site)
You Are My Lucky Star (mp3) (site)
Car Love (text)
Laudate (text)
Lying in Bed with a Book (text)
Press Conference (text)
After the Exorcism (site)
(off-site text)
Best Friend (text)
Gifts (text)
Falling Water (text)
I Hardly Dream of Anyone Who Is Still Alive (text)
Like No Other (text)
No Escape (text)
The Obituary Writer (text)
On Mount Timpanogos, 1935 (text)
The Passing of Thistle (text)
Peripheral Vision (site)
(off-site text)
These Days (text)
The Unfrocked Governess (text)
The Winner (text)
Winter Sunrise (site)
(off-site text)
You (text)
Mona da Vinci
The
Sacred Art of Wood (mp3) (site)
Becoming the Patient (QT download) (text)
with commentary
Blood Clot (QT download) (text)
with commentary
The Body Flute (QT download) (text)
with commentary
Duet (QT download) (text)
with commentary
Four Masks (QT download) (text)
with commentary
How I am Able to Love (QT download) (text)
with commentary
How I Imagine It (QT download) (text)
with commentary
I Hear the Cries of Women (QT download) (text)
with commentary
On the Wards (QT download) (text)
with commentary
The Smoke We Make Pictures Of (QT download) (text)
with commentary
What the Nurse Likes (QT download) (text)
with commentary
A Corpse in Gloves (text)
Deserter (text)
Tracks (text)
Greg Delanty
The Bindi Mirror (text)
The Shoulder, etc. (mp3) (site)
On Stopping Late in the Afternoon for Steamed Dumplings (.au)
(text)
Poem For My Father (.au) (text)
The Weakness (text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!)
Heroic Couplets (text)
Lines Composed in My Room... (text)
The Prize (text)
Three Inquiries (text)
Morning Edition (NPR) August 17, 2001 (site)
talking about his new collection of poems titled Skirts
and Slacks
The Poetry of Emily Dickinson read by Laura Lee Parrotti
(site)
Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson (site)
For the Last Wolverine (text)
The Sheep-Child (text)
Seasonal (wmp) (text)
Aubade for the Executioner (text)
Enjoy the Wind Catcher (text)
Trick Birds at the Carnival (text)
Ave (mp3) (site)
Revolutionary Letters Nos. 7, 13, 16, 49 (mp3) (site)
from Loba (mp3) (site)
BayTV Interview (site)
Flashpoint Interview (KPFA) [start 2:45] (site)
West Coast Live June 23, 2001 (NPR) (site)
Days of Me (wmp) (text)
The Fisherman and the Dryad (wmp) (text)
Prague (wmp) (text)
The Report (wmp) (text)
Stevedore (wmp) (text)
At the End of the Day (text)
Break Up (text)
Fable (text)
The Man Who was Always Sad (text)
Neither Here Nor There (text)
Waiting for Her Again (text)
from When I First Saw Snow (text)
Years Later (text)
You Just Don't Get It (text)
Field Trip to the Rolling Mills, 1950 (text)
Barns (site)
Breakdown (site)
Deer Tracks in March (site)
Leaves (site)
Letter (site)
Naming the Winter (site)
(text)
Oh, Hands (site)
Oh, This Is the Voice (site)
On Any Given Afternoon (site)
(text)
On the Page (site)
Poem About Nothing (site)
(text)
The Light the Stars Make (site)
Two Poems of Advice (site)
(text)
Two Women in the Shade of a Peach Tree (site)
Helen in Egypt (RA download) (site)
from Helen in Egypt: Eidolon, Book 3: #4 (text)
Helen in Egypt (excerpts). 1955. (site)
Harpo (text)
Samba (text)
The Third-Prize Photograph (text)
excerpts from Gunslinger, Book 4 (mp3) (site)
Recording of sections of Gunslinger (S Press [date?])
(site)
Recollections of Grande Apacharia (mp3) (site)
Poetry reading (Buffalo, 1974) (site)
Reading and discussion of Gunslinger (Buffalo, 1974) (site)
At the Gym (wmp) (text)
A Display of Mackerel (text)
The Embrace (text)
Golden Retrievals (text)
Key West Valentine (wmp) (text)
Lily and Bronze (site)
Long Point Light (text)
Paul's Tattoo (wmp) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
about The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000
with Yusef Komunyakaa and Anne Waldman
The Beat Interview (NPR) March 23, 2001 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, May 2, 1996 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, July 23, 1998 (site)
Cover to Cover (MPR), October 18, 2000 (site)
Fooling with Words (PBS) Interview (QT) (site)
Against Self-Pity (wmp) (text)
After Reading Mickey In The Night Kitchen ... (site)
(off-site
text)
Courtship (.au) (.wav) (site)
Courtship, Diligence (.au) Courtship,
Diligence (.wav) (site)
Flash Cards (site)
(off-site
text)
Flash Cards (.wav) (site)
(off-site
text)
Lady Freedom Among Us (.au) (text)
Parsely (site)
Revenant (wmp) (text)
Shakespeare Say (site)
Silos (text)
Sunday (wmp) (text)
Poetry in America:
A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration:
Favorite Poems by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove,
Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin, along with Joshua Weiner and
Naomi Shihab Nye.
- April 3, 2000 (site)
- April 4, 2000 (site)
Anthem (NPR) June 13, 1998 (site)
on how she writes - with Veronica Chambers
Poets In Person Interview (mp3) (site)
Prairie Home Companion Part 1 (NPR) February 14, 1998 (site)
- Chocolate (off-site
text)
- Ghost Walk
- Courtship
- The Secret Garden (off-site
text)
- Pastoral
Prairie Home Companion Part 2 (NPR) February 14, 1998 (site)
- Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967
- Flirtation (off-site
text)
- Testimonial
Inshallah (text)
Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) November 15, 2001 (site)
Crater Face (text)
Ego (text)
Snow White's Acne (text)
My Mother Would Be a Falconress (text)
The Opening of the Field (site)
To Speak My Mind... (mp3) (site)
Poetry Reading--preamble (Buffalo, 1982) (site)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1982) (site)
Reading and Discussion of his work (Unknown Recording) (site)
Lecture on Ezra Pound (site)
Physics and Literature (Miriam College Lecture, 1978) (site)
Seminar On H.D. (1986) (site)
Sermon (Buffalo, 1982) (site)
Ars Poetica and "Did I Miss Anything?" (by Tom Wayman)
(site)
Bill Moyers Interview (site)
Morning Edition (NPR) December 11, 2000 (site)
- Different Hours [start 1:17]
- Men in the Sky [start 4:20]
Morning Edition (NPR) October 25, 1996 (site)
- After Making Love [start 0:18]
- Diminuendo [start 3:50]
Online News Hour (PBS) April 26, 2001 (site)
on winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and reading Before
the Sky Darkens
Live at the Writers House (site)
- Draft IXX: Working Conditions
- Draft XXV: [????]
I'm A Fool To Love You (text)
Thelonious Monk (.wav) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) February 11, 2001 (site)
The Alfresco Moment (text)
One Lonely Afternoon (text)
Arizona State University Reading (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) July 20, 1999 (site)
- The Fall (offsite
text)
- Anti-matter
- Counting Sheep (offsite
text)
- On the Eating of Mice (offsite
text)
Ash Wednesday (I. - V. only) (Harper
Collin's Listening Booth) (text)
Burnt Norton [from Four Quartets] (site)
(off-site
text)
Burnt Norton [from Four Quartets] (site)
(mp3) (off-site
text)
Burnt Norton (site)
(off-site
text)
La Figlia Che Piange (site)
(off-site text)
La Figlia Che Piange (off-site
text)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (site)
(off-site
text)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (site)
(off-site
text)
Preludes (site)
(off-site
text)
The Wasteland (site)
(off-site
text)
The Waste Land (.au) (text)
- I. The Burial of the Dead (text)
- II. A Game of Chess (text)
- III. The Fire Sermon and IV. Death by Drowning (text)
- V. What the Thunder Said (text)
The Waste Land (RA & .au) (site)
- I. The Burial of the Dead (off-site
text)
- II. A Game of Chess (off-site
text)
- III. The Fire Sermon and IV. Death By Water
(off-site
text)
- V. What the Thunder Said (off-site
text)
Red-Letter December (wmp) (text)
The Woolworth Song (mp3) (site)
Inventing Father in Las Vegas (text)
Wired for Books Reading 2001 [47:51] (site)
reading at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival
Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man is Innocent
[start 49:14]
(off-site
text) (site)
Circle of Resistance (site)
interview with poet Martin Espada about censorship on NPR,
the importance of Puerto Rican independence and the future
of poetry
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Anthem (NPR) January 23, 1999 (site)
on Jazz Poetry
Internet Poetry Archive lecture (site)
on Yusef Komunyakaa's Libretto, "Testimony,"
and the Humanity of Charlie Parker
Joker (wmp) (text)
No. 12 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp) [download] (site)
No. 14 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp) [download] (site)
No. 37 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp)
[video download] (site)
(off-site
text)
No. 37 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp)
[audio download] (site)
(off-site
text)
Assassination Raga (site)
Big Sur Sun Sutra (site)
Constantly Risking Absurdity and Death (wmp) [download] (site)
(off-site
text)
Driving a Cardboard Automobile Without a License (wmp) [download]
(site)
(off-site
text)
I am Waiting (text)
Oh Heart (wmp) [download] (site)
Moscow in the Wilderness, Segovia in the Snow (site)
The Pennycandystore Beyond the El (wmp) [download] (site)
(off-site
text)
Tyrannus Nix? (site)
Underwear (site)
The World is a Beautiful Place to be Born into... (wmp) [download]
(site)
(off-site
text)
Counter Balance Poetry Reading (wmp) [download] (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) August 13, 1998 (site)
The Beat Interview (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)
WBEZ Interview 1961 (NPR Chicago) (site)
- Part 1 [start 32:57]
- Part 2 [start 33:38]
Four Poems (RA & mp3) (site)
- Arachne (off-site
text)
- Persephone (off-site
text)
- The Prisoner of the Golden Cage (off-site
text)
- Des Esseintes' Last Book (off-site
text)
My Institutionals (site)
(off-site
text)
My Institutionals (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Horace, Epistle i.15 (wmp) (text)
That Evening at Dinner (wmp) (text)
The Round-Up (wmp) (text)
A Bottle of Château d’Yquem 1964 (text)
The Pornographer (text)
Tattoo (text)
A Check (text)
Dictionary Jazz (text)
The Man Who Had Never Heard of Frank Sinatra (text)
The Name of the Satellite (text)
Orange and Green (text)
The Printer's Error (text)
Pupils Slip Up (wmp) (text)
From The Riddle of Flat Circles (text)
Villanelle (text)
For the Stranger (site)
For the Stranger (site)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1997) (site)
Suny Buffalo EPC Interview/Reading (1995)
(RA & RA download) (site)
Acquainted with the Night (site)
(off-site
text)
Acquainted with the Night (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
After Apple Picking (site)
(off-site
text)
After Apple Picking (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
After Apple-Picking (site)
(off-site
text)
After Apple-Picking (QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Birches (site)
(off-site
text)
Choose Something Like a Star (site)
(off-site
text)
A Considerable Speck (site)
(off-site
text)
The Death of the Hired Man (site)
(off-site
text)
Departmental (site)
(off-site
text)
Etherealizing (site)
Happiness Makes Up in Height (site)
Mending Wall (site)
(off-site
text)
Mowing (site)
(off-site
text)
One More Brevity (site)
One Step Backward Taken (site)
(off-site
text)
Nothing Gold Can Stay (site)
(off-site
text)
The Pasture (site)
(off-site
text)
Provide, Provide (site)
(off-site
text)
Reluctance (site)
(off-site
text)
The Road Not Taken (text)
The Road Not Taken (site)
(off-site
text)
The Road Not Taken (site)
(off-site
text)
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (site)
(off-site
text)
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Tuft of Flowers (site)
(off-site
text)
West-Runnning Brook (site)
(off-site
text)
West-Runnning Brook (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
West-Running Brook (site)
(off-site
text)
Why Wait for Science (site)
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- The Road Not Taken (off-site
text)
- The Pasture (off-site
text)
- Mowing (off-site
text)
- Birches (off-site
text)
- After Apple-Picking (off-site
text)
- The Tuft of Flowers (off-site
text)
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Mending Wall (off-site
text)
- One More Brevity
- Departmental (off-site
text)
- A Considerable Speck (off-site
text)
- Why Wait for Science
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Etherealizing
- Provide, Provide (off-site
text)
- One Step Backward Taken (off-site
text)
- Choose Something Like a Star (off-site
text)
- Happiness Makes Up in Height
- Reluctance (off-site
text)
Harper Audio (RA & .au) (site)
- West-Running Brook (off-site
text)
- The Death of the Hired Man (off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio Listening Room (site)
- Mowing (off-site
text)
- Birches (off-site
text)
- After Apple-Picking (off-site
text)
- The Tuft of Flowers (off-site
text)
UC of Berkeley, May 8, 1958 Reading (site)
UC of Berkeley, November 8, 1953 Reading (site)
University of Iowa Reading (site)
Poetry and Power:
J. F. Kennedy honoring the poet Robert Frost (RA download)
(site)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1998) (site)
U of Penn Phillytalks #9, plus Melanie Neilson (site)
Fix (text)
The Accident (text)
India Cotton Shirt (text)
Owl Pellet (text)
Passage (text)
To the Animal in the Hole (text)
The Women Who Clean Fish (text)
Woodcock (text)
One Kiss (site)
(off-site
text)
Bookworm on KCRW, February, 1998 (site)
Wired for Book Interview 1986 (site)
An Explanation (text)
Furnishing Heaven (text)
Listening to the Garden (text)
Pondycherry (text)
Reading My Poems of Forty Years (text)
Yellow Shoe Poet (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, December 23, 1999 (site)
Face (.aiff) (text)
The Fine-Structure Constant (.aiff) (text)
from The Hugeness of That Which is Missing (text)
Time and the Hour (.aiff) (text)
Poetry Reading (SFSU, 1996) (site)
Happily Married (wmp) (text)
Please Fire Me (text)
A Working Girl Can't Win (wmp) (text)
Talk of the Nation (NPR) December 22, 1999 (site)
about the state of poetry today with Mark Strand
The Loop: JFK Jr (wmp) (text)
Marriage: Six Primers (wmp) (text)
See Saw (wmp) (text)
The Affect of Elms (text)
Kiss (text)
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (m3u)
(site)
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (mp3)
(site)
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (m3u)
(site)
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (mp3)
(site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (m3u) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (m3u) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)
Mississippi 66 (m3u) (site)
Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)
Mississippi 66 (m3u) (site)
Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)
Rosita Mae (m3u) (site)
Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)
Rosita Mae (m3u) (site)
Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)
The Moon (m3u) (site)
The Moon (mp3) (site)
The Moon (m3u) (site)
The Moon (mp3) (site)
Unclothed (m3u) (site)
Unclothed (mp3) (site)
Unclothed (m3u) (site)
Unclothed (mp3) (site)
Warehouse (m3u) (site)
Warehouse (mp3) (site)
Warehouse (m3u) (site)
Warehouse (mp3) (site)
PoetryPoetry reading (m3u & mp3) (site)
- Introduction (site)
-
- Unclothed (site)
-
- Mississippi 66 (site)
-
-
- In the Year I Loved Your Mother (site)
- Warehouse (site)
- The Moon (site)
- I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (site)
- Rosita Mae (site)
-
- Unclothed (site)
-
-
-
- In the Year I Loved Your Mother (site)
- Warehouse (site)
- The Moon (site)
- I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (site)
-
- Rosita Mae (site)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(I, Too, Will Be "Uncle Sandra")
Blake Song: Merrily We Welcome in the Year (mp3) (site)
Europe! Europe! (site)
Footnote to Howl (site)
Green Automobile (mp3) (site)
Howl (site)
(off-site
text)
Howl (.wav & .aiff) (site)
(off-site
text)
I'm a Victim of Telephones (mp3) (site)
In Back of the Real (site)
(off-site
text)
Jimmy Berman (mp3) (site)
Kaddish (site)
(off-site
text)
Personal Ad (text)
Please Master (site) (off-site text)
Punk Rock & Old Pond (with Peter Orlovsky) (mp3) (site)
A Strange New Cottage In Berkeley (site)
Sunflower Sutra (site)
(off-site
text)
A Supermarket in California (text)
A Supermarket In California (site)
(off-site
text)
A Supermarket in California and America (site)
(off-site
text)
Vajra Mantra (mp3) (site)
Transcription of Organ Music (site)
(off-site
text)
92nd Street Y Reading, February 28, 1997 (site)
Fresh
Air Interview (NPR) October 19, 1999 (site)
singing on CNN (QT) (site)
Songs (site)
- Hum Bomb (w/ Elvin Jones. 1984)
- Little Fish Big Fish (w/ Elvin Jones. 1984)
- Birdbrain (w/ Gluons. 1980)
- Sept. on Jessore Rd (w/ Mondrian String Quartet. 1982)
- Do the Meditation (w/ S. Taylor, D. Mansfield, B. Dylan
[bass]. 1982)
Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties Interview
(QT download & .wav) (site)
PBS Online News Hour, April 7, 1997, Memorial (transcript)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)
Wired for Book Interview (site)
Eating The Sky (mp3) (site)
Grasping at Emptiness (mp3) (site)
from Shit, Piss, Blood, Pus + Brains (mp3) (site)
from Subduing Demons in America (mp3) (site)
Suicide Sutra (mp3) (site)
Vajra Kisses (mp3) (site)
Ego Trippin' (RA audio & RA video) (site)
(off-site
text)
Ego Trippin' [segment] (PBS) (text)
on Literature of Life
I am She (site)
(off-site
text)
I Am She (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
My House (site)
Nikki-Rosa (site)
(off-site
text)
Nikki-Rosa (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Literature of Life Interview (site)
Weekend Edition (NPR) September 19, 1999 (site)
Weekend Edition (NPR) Sunday, August 20,2000 (site)
Cottonmouth Country (text)
Grace (wmp) (text)
Marathon (text)
The Red Poppy (text)
The Open Grave (wmp) (text)
Orfeo (wmp) (text)
Reunion (wmp) (text)
The Traveler (wmp) (text)
Poetry in America: A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration:
Favorite Poems by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove,
Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin, along with Joshua Weiner and
Naomi Shihab Nye.
- April 3, 2000 (site)
- April 4, 2000 (site)
The Bulbs (text)
Ferrymen (site)
Jack Niklaus (site)
Mary (site)
Rice (site)
The Natural, Brooklyn (text)
Repeats (text)
To Juan at the Summer Solstice (site)
Harper Audio (RA & .au) (site)
- The Hills of May
- Angry Samson (off-site
text)
- In Procession
- Warning to Children (off-site text)
- The Cool Web (off-site
text)
- Song of Contrariety (off-site
text)
- The Presence
Harper Audio 2 (RA & .au) (site)
- Flying Crooked (off-site
text)
- Any Honest Housewife
- A Jealous Man
- The Cloak
- Time
- Ogres and Pygmies
- To Bring the Dead to Life (off-site
text)
- Like Snow (off-site
text)
Harper Audio 3 (RA & .au) (site)
- To Juan at the Winter Solstice (off-site
text)
- The Death Room
- My Name and I (off-site
text)
- The Survivor
- The Foreboding (off-site
text)
- Cat-Goddesses
- The Blue Fly (off-site text)
- Sirocco at Deya
- Leaving the Rest Unsaid (off-site
text)
For the Taking (text)
The Horses Run Back to Their Stalls (text)
Safe (text)
Target (text)
Waterborne (text)
Afterwards (mp3) (text)
Dia Center Reading, December 9, 2000 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, May 11, 2000 (site)
The Connection (WBUR) December 17, 1999 (site)
PBS Online News Hour, April 12, 1996 (transcript)
Interview Pulitzer Prize
- Tennessee June
The Last Secretary (wmp) (text)
Cows (site)
Kitchen Vision (site)
Oasis (site)
Three Poems (site)
- House
- Headlines
- Heirloom
Wing Road (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) June 30, 1999 (site)
reading from Sea Dog
A Reason (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, July 11, 1996 (site)
on Truth in Poetry
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)
7 a.m. in the bar (site)
Classics (wmp) (text)
Convergence (site)
Famous Friends (site)
Gossip (wmp) (text)
A Home (site)
In the Post Office (site)
Night Taxi (site)
Nights With the Speed Bros. (site)
Office Hours (site)
Painting by Vuillard (site)
(off-site
text)
reading from his book Boss Cupid (site)
- A Home, intro (site)
- A Home (site)
- In the Post Office, intro (site)
- In the Post Office (site)
- Famous Friends, intro (site)
- Famous Friends (site)
- 7 a.m. in the bar, intro (site)
- 7 a.m. in the bar (site)
- Convergence, intro (site)
- Convergence (site)
- Nights With the Speed Bros. (site)
- Painting by Vuillard, intro (site)
(off-site
text)
- Painting by Vuillard (site)
- Office Hours, intro (site)
- Office Hours (site)
Make Us an Offer (text)
Release (text)
I Am That I Am (mp3) (site)
Kick That Habit, Junk Is No Good Baby, Somebody Special,
& Blue Baboon (mp3) (site)
For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back (text)
Sonnet Ending in a Film Subtitle (site)
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Black Coat, Blue Lake (text)
Connie's Room (text)
Empty Studio, National Arts Club (text)
The Genre Necklace (text)
Midpoint, Maybe (text)
Poem for the End of the Century (text)
Distressed Haiku (text)
Summer Kitchen (wmp) (text)
The Wedding Couple (text)
When the Young Husband (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 1998 (site)
Anthem (NPR) April 11, 1998 (site)
on loss of wife and poet Jane Kenyon
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Prairie Home Companion Part 1 (NPR) April 26, 1997 (site)
reading Spring Glen School
Prairie Home Companion Part 2 (NPR) April 26, 1997 (site)
reading Baseball
This American Life, part 3, February 14, 1998 (site)
Already in 1927 (text)
Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts (wmp) (text)
The Fedge (wmp) (text)
Frankfort Laundromat (wmp) (text)
Green Canoe (text)
Parkersburg (wmp) (text)
Untransformed (wmp) (text)
The Value of Education (wmp) (text)
Winchendon (text)
Cold Comfort (text)
A Mirror, Helsinki, Jan 1990 (text)
The Muse as Lilith (text)
Young Ballerina on TV (text)
Dance (text)
Fugue (text)
God (text)
My Eyes Your Eyes (text)
Steve Hamilton
Promise (mp3) (site)
Hieroglyphics (site)
Perhaps The World Ends Here (text)
(site)
A Postcolonial Tale (site)
(off-site
text)
A Postcolonial Tale (site)
(off-site
text)
Native America Calling Interview (NPR) (site)
Talk of the Nation (NPR) June 17, 1999 (site)
As it Rains (wmp) (text)
The Net (text)
Dear John, Dear Coltrane (site)
(off-site
text)
If You Don’t Force It (site)
Rueben, Rueben (site)
Rueben, Rueben (RA download & QT download) (site)
The Connection (WBUR) February 24, 2000 (site)
on African American poetry
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) March 9, 2000 (site)
In a Parish (site)
Fresh Air (NPR) September 21, 2001 with minimal commentary
at beginning
Meditation at Lagunitas (text)
Misery and Splendor (text)
The Beat Interview (NPR) April 10, 2001 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 12, 1996 (site)
Fresh Air (NPR) April 1, 1998 (site)
Fresh Air (NPR) April 7, 2000 (site)
Morning Edition (NPR) April 18, 1996 (site)
PBS Online News Hour, April 22, 1996 (site)
artistic side of Earth Day, also with Gary Snyder
Talk of the Nation (NPR) April 1, 1996 (site)
Hands (mp3) (site)
From the Greek (text)
Molybdenum (text)
Sanskrit by First Snowfall (text)
Frederick Douglass (site)
(off-site
text)
Frederick Douglas (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Soledad (text)
Those Winter Sundays (site)
(off-site
text)
Those Winter Sundays (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Anahorish (text)
Blackberry Picking (text)
Bogland (text)
Bogland (off-site
text)
Casualty (text)
Death of a Naturalist (text)
From Clearances - 3 (text)
From Clearances - 5 (text)
from the Frontier of Writing (text)
The Grauballe Man (text)
Harvest Bow (text)
From Lightenings (1,6,7,8) (text)
The Perch (text)
Personal Helicon (text)
Song (text)
Tollund Man (text)
Farrar Straus Giroux reading (site)
- Source (by Ted Hughes)
- Keeping Going
- The Strand
The Beat Interview (NPR) January 4, 2000 (site)
Nightwaves on Radio 4 Interview (BBC) September 16, 1998
(site)
- the impact of the troubles on his writing, the bog bodies
poems [5:26]
- naming a collection of poems [1:46]
Talk of the Nation (NPR) April 20, 2000 (site)
Bookclub on Beowulf translation
Turning Points Interview (BBC) September 16, 1998 (site)
- his formative years [4:21]
- doing English at University, the influence of Irish writing
[2:21]
Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos (text)
BOOK EIGHT [segments] (QT & .aiff) (site) (site text)
Kelly Writer's House Lecture (site)
a lecture on Gertrude Stein
LINEbreak SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)
A Dialogue of Some Importance (text)
Exercise on Schiele's Die Junge Frau (text)
"We can only wish valeat quantum valere potest" (text)
In Memoriam Paul Celan (text)
A Painting of Pan (wmp) (text)
Tristran Zara (mp3) (site)
Wild Gratitude (site)
Anthem (NPR) (part 2) September 4, 2000 (site)
on "A Poetry Reading at West Point" by William Matthews
Anthem (NPR) June 16, 1999 (site)
on former student Marisa de los Santos
Anthem (NPR) December 19, 1998 (site)
discusses and reads "Saint Francis and the Sow"
by Galway Kinnell
The Beat Interview (NPR) January 9, 2001 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 30, 1999 (site)
The Connection (WBUR) July 20, 1999 (site)
how to read a poem
All Evening, Each Time I Started To Say It (wmp) (text)
Apple (text)
Habit (wmp) (text)
Knowing Nothing (wmp) (text)
The Love of Aged Horses (text)
Lying (text)
The Poet (text)
The Poet (text)
The Song (text)
Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight (text)
Within This Tree (text)
Hinge (wmp) (text)
The Center of Attention (text)
An Old-Fashioned Song (text)
Getting From Here to There (wmp) (text)
Where Was When (wmp) (text)
Casting (wmp) (text)
Cicadas (wmp) (text)
Rock 'n' Roll Mythology (excerpt) (QT) (text)
We Are The Dinosaur (.wav) (text)
Anthem (NPR) July 10, 1999 (site)
on Frank Lima and the New York School of Poetry
Anthem (NPR) May 22, 1999 (site)
on Robert Creeley
Anthem (NPR) April 17, 1999 (site)
about a NYC poetry slam
Anthem (NPR) March 27, 1999 (site)
about Academy of American Poets
The Legend (text)
Anthem (NPR) April 10, 1999 (site)
Prayer (text)
The Closed Forest (text)
Gratitude (text)
The Invisible Woman (text)
A Given Name (text)
Interrogations (text)
Old News (text)
Release (text)
Reticence (text)
Among the Missing (site)
At 65 (site)
Disclaimers (site)
(off-site
text)
Dorothea Tannings "Cousins" (site)
(off-site
text)
Family Values I (site)
Family Values II (site)
Family Values III (site)
Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol,
1565 (text)
92 Street Y Reading, January 10, 2000 (site)
- Dorothea Tannings "Cousins" (off-site
text)
- Disclaimers (off-site
text)
- Family Values I
- Family Values II
- Family Values III
- Among the Missing
- At 65
Creation was the end that preceded means (mp3 & .wav)
(text)
UC Berkeley, December 7, 2000 (site)
reading with Mark Levine, & Carol Snow
Speeches at the Barrier (site)
(text)
Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)
LINEbreak, SUNY Buffalo EPC, 1995 (RA & RA download)
(site)
- Interview
- from her book My Emily Dickinson
- from her book The Nonconformist's Memorial
As Seen on Television (wmp) (text)
Come to Harm (wmp) (text)
Desert Island (wmp) (text)
Dragonfly (text)
The Hawk Above the House (text)
Night Class (wmp) (text)
Piss Christ (wmp) (text)
Ballad of the Gypsy (site)
Dream Deferred (QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Dream Montage (site)
I, Too (site)
(off-site
text)
I, Too (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Kid Sleepy (site)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (text)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (RA download)
(site)
(off-site
text)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site)
(off-site
text)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site)
(off-site
text)
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (RA download & QT download)
(site)
(off-site
text)
One Way Ticket (site)
Puzzled (site)
Puzzled (RA & mp3) (site)
Southern Mammy Songs (site)
Sylverster's Dying Bed (RA & mp3) (site)
Trumpet Player (site)
(off-site
text)
Trumpet Player (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Harper Collins Audio (site)
New York Times Reading (site)
- One Way Ticket
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers (off-site
text)
- Trumpet Player (off-site
text)
- Ballad of the Gypsy
- Kid Sleepy
- Puzzled
- Southern Mammy Songs
A March Calf (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) October 29, 1998, (site)
Obituary
Rueben Jackson
jamal's lamentation (RA download & QT download) (site)
self portrait, 1988 (RA download & QT download) (site)
Arf and Barf (text)
At the Next Table (text)
Canticle (text)
Decision (text)
Grave Alignments (text)
In the Tube (text)
Prayer to End a Dry Spell (text)
Psalm (text)
Ruby Throated Moses (text)
Short Drill (text)
Unholy Sonnet (text)
Unholy Sonnet [1] (text)
Unholy Sonnet [2] (text)
Unholy Sonnet [3] (text)
Unholy Sonnet [4] (text)
Victims (text)
Wailers (text)
Bats (site)
(off-site
text)
The Bird of Night (site)
(off-site
text)
Gleaning (site)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (site)
(off-site
text)
The Lines (RA download) (site)
The Lost World, I: Childrens Arms (site)
The Lost World, II: A Night With Lions (site)
The Lost World, III: A Street Off Sunset (site)
The Mockingbird (site)
In Montecito (site)
Next Day (text)
Next Day (site)
(off-site
text)
Three Bills (site)
The Woman at the Washington Zoo (site)
(off-site
text)
The 92nd Street Y Reading, April 28, 1963 (site)
- Introductory Remarks
- The Mockingbird
- The Bird of Night (off-site
text)
- Bats (off-site
text)
- Next Day (off-site
text)
- Three Bills
- Gleaning
- In Montecito
- The Lost World, I: Childrens Arms
- The Lost World, II: A Night With Lions
- The Lost World, III: A Street Off Sunset
The Initiation (text)
Temperments (text)
Working Stiff (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) July 13, 1999 (site)
reading, Every Man Whose Soul is Not a Clod Hath Visions
Bookworm on KCRW, January 4, 2001 (site)
WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) August 24, 2000 (RA download) (site)
UC Berkeley Reading, February 2, 2000 (site)
All Things Considered, June 1, 2001 (site)
Beautiful Child (text)
First Coca-Cola (text)
On Pickiness (text)
Pleas for Forgiveness (text)
Raccoon Time (text)
TV (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) July 4, 1999 (site)
- excerpt Elegy For The Southern Drawl (offsite
text)
The Creation (text)
We To America (RA download & QT download) (site)
In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. (site)
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one (text)
The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one (site)
(off-site
text)
Kelly Writer's House Reading (site)
Kelly Writer's House Lecture (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)
Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy (text)
A Study in Chronometric Geometries (text)
Fresh Air (NPR) December 29, 1999 (site)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (text)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (text)
After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Another Night in the Ruins and other poems (RA & mp3)
(site)
- Another Night in the Ruins
- The Frog Pond
Wait (QT) (site)
(off-site text)
UC of Berkeley, April 5, 2001 Reading [excerpts] (site)
Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)
When did you start writing?
Adaptation (text)
Fallow (text)
The Melody Haunts My Reverie... (text)
Nocturnal House (text)
The Rabbiters: A Pastoral (text)
Roman Park, Noon (wmp) (text)
Parent's Pantoum (text)
Hard Rock Returns To Prison ... (site)
(off-site
text)
The Idea Of Ancestry (site)
(off-site
text)
The Idea Of Ancestry (site)
(off-site
text)
Ann Online Interview (site)
Anodyne (.wav) (site)
(off-site
text)
from Autobiography of My Alter Ego (wmp) (text)
Blue Light Lounge Sutra... (.wav) (site)
(off-site
text)
Facing It (site)
(off-site
text)
Venus's-flytraps (site)
(off-site
text)
The Whispering Gallery (wmp) (text)
Reading and Interview at Cortland Review (site)
- Introduction by David Lehman
- An Old Low-down Blues
- Ode to a Drum (off-site
text)
- The Deck (off-site
text)
- Camouflaging the Chimera (off-site
text)
- Ode to the Maggot (off-site
text)
- The Scapegoat
- Venus's-flytraps (off-site
text)
- My Father's Love Letters (off-site
text)
- Slam, Dunk, & Hook (off-site
text)
- Blue Light Lounge Sutra... (off-site
text)
- Thanks (off-site
text)
- We Never Know (off-site
text)
- Rhythm Method (off-site
text)
- Jasmine
- Facing It (off-site
text)
- Anodyne (off-site
text)
- Yellowjackets (off-site
text)
- No-good Blues
- Interview by David Lehman
Internet Poetry Archive reading (site)
- Ode to the Maggot (text)
- Ode to the Raccoon (text)
- Lime (text)
- Venus's-flytraps (text)
- The Smoke House (text)
- Blackberries (text)
- Yellow Jackets (text)
- My Father's Love Letters (text)
- Believing in Iron (text)
- Slam, Dunk, & Hook (text)
- Camouflaging the Chimera (text)
- You and I Are Disappearing (text)
- We Never Know (text)
- A Break from the Bush (text)
- Tu Do Street (text)
- Prisoners (text)
- Thanks (text)
- Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold
Park Hotel (text)
- Ode to a Drum (text)
- A Reed Boat (text)
- The Deck (text)
- Rhythm Method (text)
- Facing It (text)
- Anodyne (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
- The Deck (off-site
text)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
about The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000
with Mark Doty and Anne Waldman
All Things Considered (NPR) April 28, 1998 (site)
- The Deck (off-site
text)
- Venus's-flytraps (off-site
text)
- Anodyne (off-site
text)
At the Office Early (text)
Biker (text)
Nicole Krauss (no bio)
Two Poems (RA & mp3) (site)
- The Idea of Helen (off-site
text)
- Valparaiso (off-site
text)
Continuum: A Love Poem (text)
Grace (text)
January 25th (text)
The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views (text)
Oblivion (text)
Woodchucks (text)
Woodchucks (site)
(off-site
text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Uses of Emily)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Halley's Comet (text)
King of the River (text)
introductionary remarks
The Old Darned Man (RA & mp3) (site)
The Portrait (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Quarrel (text)
The Quarrel (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Round (RA & .au) (text)
introductary remarks
Touch Me (RA & .au) (text)
introductionary remarks
Makor on WNYC (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) (site)
Morning Addition (NPR) July 31, 2000 (site)
appointed poet laureate
PBS Online Newshour, October 26, 2000, Interview
(transcript)
on becoming Poet Laureate
WBUR Interview (wmp) (site)
Potato (text)
When You Tell Me (text)
Adaptations of Greek Epigrams (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Consolations (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Country Road (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Desert in Bloom (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Easter in Pittsburgh (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Experience of Blood (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The House Of Light (mp3 & m3u) (site)
In Another Country (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Junk Mail (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Person (mp3 & m3u) (site)
The Shameful Profession (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Step on His Head (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Those to Come (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Laughlin on e.e.cummings (mp3 & m3u) (site)
Laughlin on Poetry and Pound (mp3 & m3u) (site)
PoetryPoetry Reading (m3u) (site)
ON (Open) (.wav) (text)
Opening Day (site)
(text)
Persimmons (text)
Bookworm (KCRW) September 27, 2001 (site)
February 10: The Business (wmp) (text)
March 22 (text)
April 24 (text)
May 1 (text)
August 15 (wmp) (text)
September 22 (text)
October 12 (text)
November 6 (text)
December 8 (wmp) (text)
Dark City (.au) (text)
Flashback (.au) (text)
Ode (text)
The World Trade Center (.au) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 2, 2000 (site)
review of The Daily Mirror
- January 1 (off-site
text)
- March 16
- April 26 (off-site
text)
- December 29
Fresh Air [start 30:04] (NPR) January 11, 2000 (site)
on his new book "The Daily Mirror: a Journal in Poetry"
Fresh Air (NPR) November 10, 1998 (site)
on his new book "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of
the New York School of Poets"
Tenebrae (site)
Woman Alone / Homage to Pavese (3:33) (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
St. Marks Church, NYC, April, 20, 1977
At the Piroska Cafe (text)
Come Back (text)
A Day (text)
Homesick (text)
Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (commentary)
(text)
Clouds (RA download) (site)
Coming Close (text)
The Fox (RA download) (site)
Gin (text)
He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do (text)
Holy Day (text)
M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate
School (commentary)
(text)
Messieur Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfy Intermediate
School, Detroit 1942 (site)
(off-site
text)
Magpiety (text)
The New World (text)
Ode For Mrs. William Settle (text)
On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane (commentary)
(text)
On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
with commentary (text)
The Return (text)
Salts and Oils (text)
with commentary
These Streets (RA download) (site)
They Feed They Lion (text)
with commentary
A Theory of Prosody (text)
with commentary
A Walk with Tom Jefferson (RA download) (site)
The West Wind (wmp) (text)
What Work Is (text)
with commentary
The Beat Interview (NPR) February 28, 2000 (site)
The Connection (WBUR) April 30, 1999 (site)
Cortland Review Interview (text)
- Introduction
- Part 1 on Robert Lowell
- Part 2 on John Berryman
- Part 3 on Berryman as mentor
- Part 4 on How to get a Good Education
- Part 5 on How Teaching affects the Writing Process
- Part 6 on Writing a Poem and Making Decisions
- Part 7 on Method of Revision
- Part 8 on How Philip Levine Learned what Work is
- Part 9 on a Detroit-sized Poet
- Part 10 on Writing the Elegy
- Part 11 on Favorite Curse Word
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) April 23, 1999 (site)
Love Nips Of The Boa (text)
Bosnia (text)
But Instead Has Gone Underground (.wav) (site)
(off-site text)
Geese at Midnight (RA download) (text)
In Those Loose Robes, Some Say Jesus was a Flasher, An Exhibitionist,
I Suppose (text)
Moving By Touch (.wav) (site)
(off-site text)
My Afternoons with Dylan Thomas (text)
Laser Palmistry: The Early Days (text)
The Empress of Sighs (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Weekend Warrior (RA & mp3) (site)
Survivors (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Hard Evidence
The Emperor's Comet (text)
Shore Leave (text)
The Track of Water Over the Dam (text)
Learning Window (wmp) (text)
Photographs (wmp) (text)
The Strangers (wmp) (text)
Dahomey (site)
(off-site
text)
from A Litany for Survival (text)
from A Litany for Survival (QT download) (text)
Adios Again, My Blessed Angel
of Thunderheads and Urine (text)
Song of the Snake (text)
Dunbarton (RA & mp3) (site)
For Sale (site)
(off-site text)
For the Union Dead (RA download) (text)
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Public Garden (text)
Skunk Hour (site)
(off-site
text)
Skunk Hour (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Ulysses + Circe [9:40] (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 23, 1977
Poetry Reading (New York, 1963) (site)
Gorgeous Surfaces (text)
He Has Lived in Many Houses (text)
Henry Clay's Mouth (text)
A Kiss (text)
Lucky (text)
The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (text)
The Road That Runs Beside The River (text)
Snake Lake (text)
Torn Shades (text)
Virgule (text)
Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)
960 words derived from the name of a deceased friend (.au)
with a Variation (site)
38th and 39th Merzgedichte in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters (site)
Forties 105 - Linguistic Relatives (RA & RA download)
(site)
Phoneme Dance In Memoriam John Cage (site)
Thanks (site)
from A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore (site)
LINEbreak SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)
Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)
Radio Reading Project EPC SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download)
(site)
Late Night Ode (text)
Tea With the Local Saint (wmp) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) (site)
The Connection (NPR) September 18, 2000 (site)
on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rain Mirror (RA & mp3) (site)
West Coast Live (NPR) April 1, 2000 (site)
West Coast Live (NPR) February 3, 2001 (site)
West Coast Live (NPR) May 1, 1999 (site)
West Coast Live (NPR) March 20, 1999 (site)
West Coast Live (NPR) August 6, 1994 (site)
Ardent (wmp) (text)
Borrowing Milky-White for the St. Paul's Student Production
of Into the Woods (wmp) (text)
What He Thought (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 15, 1997 (site)
- The Size of Spokane [start 1:03]
- What He Thought [start 3:49] (off-site
text)
If We Must Die (site)
(off-site
text)
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (site)
(off-site
text)
St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (RA download & QT download)
(site)
(off-site
text)
The Tropics In New York (site)
(off-site
text)
The Tropics In New York (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Except You Are A Woman (text)
The Future Of An Idea (text)
Letter (text)
Phone Sex (text)
Waiting For The Freight Train To Pass (text)
Words At The Edge Of The Woods (text)
The Dead (wmp) (text)
Bliss (wmp) (text)
Conspiracy Theory (wmp) (text)
His Garden (wmp) (text)
Sentimental Standards (wmp) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 2001 (site)
The Egg Story (site)
Free Banking (site)
Tireless Home (text)
Velvet Kennedys (site)
We Talk Two Ways (site)
Walking With Walter (text)
The Blues (text)
Care (wmp) (text)
Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball,
1959 (text)
Dire Cure (text)
Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog (text)
New (text)
On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H. (text)
The Shooting (text)
Poem in Blank Rhyme (text)
Rumpelstiltskin (text)
Time's Fool [excerpt] (text)
The Apotheosis of Delacroix (wmp) (text)
All-American Sestina (text)
Bluebonnets (text)
Horizon (wmp) (text)
Hypnosis (wmp) (text)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (text)
Young Apple Tree, December (text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Brilliant Water [start 28:00]
All Things Considered (NPR) February 20, 2000 (site)
Discussing his new book Only the Nails Remain on how
poets and writers have responded to the war in the Balkans
Alessio and the Zinnias (RA & RA video) (text)
Alessio and the Zinnias (QT download) (text)
Another August (RA & mp3) (site)
The Ballroom at Sandover (.wav) (off-site
text)
The Ballroom at Sandover (off-site
text)
The Broken Home (site)
Days of 1964 (site)
A Downward Look (RA & video) (text)
A Downward Look (site)
The Emerald (RA Download) (text)
The Envoys (site)
Ice Cap (R & RA video) (text)
Ice Cap (QT download) (text)
Kimono (RA Download) (site)
Kostas Tympakianákis (site)
Lost in Translation (first four stanzas) (site)
More Enterprise (site)
Ouzo for Robin (site)
On the Block, Section I
(Lamp. Terracotta Base, U.S., ca. 1925) (site)
The Pruned Tree (RA & RA video) (text)
The Ring Cycle (QT download) (text)
The School Play (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
The School Play (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
To My Greek (site)
An Urban Convalescence (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Violent Pastoral (site)
Words for Maria (site)
92nd St. Y's Poetry Center Reading (1967) (site)
- Ouzo for Robin
- The Envoys
- More Enterprise
- To My Greek
- Words for Maria
- Kostas Tympakianákis
- Violent Pastoral
- The Broken Home
Poems (site)
- The Black Swan
- Voices from the Other World
- A Renewal (off-site
text)
- Three Chores
- An Urban Convalescence (off-site
text)
- For Proust
- The Water Hyacinth
- The Broken Home
- Days of 1964
- Another August
- Matinees
- The Emerald (off-site
text)
- The Victor Dog (off-site
text)
- Dreams About Clothes
- Lost in Translation
- The Kimono
- The School Play (off-site
text)
- A Downward Look
- An Upward Look
The Connection (NPR) April 13, 2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Another River (text)
Any Time (text)
Before the Flood (text)
The Black Virgin (wmp) (text)
Echoing Light (text)
End of a Day (text)
Green Fields (text)
Heights (wmp) (text)
Lit in Passing (wmp) (text)
Memorandum (wmp) (text)
My Friends (text)
One Story (site)
One Story (RA download) (site)
Remembering (text)
Search Party (site)
Shore Birds (text)
The Source (wmp) (text)
The Speed of Light (text)
Term (text)
To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me He Has Lost His Memory (wmp)
(text)
Unknown Bird (text)
Vehicles (text)
Yesterday (text)
Reading from his translation of Dante's "Purgatorio,"
July 20, 2000 (site)
- Canto I & intro
- Canto V & intro
- Canto XXVI & intro
Poetry in America: A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration:
Favorite Poems by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove,
Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin, along with Joshua Weiner and
Naomi Shihab Nye.
- April 3, 2000 (site)
- April 4, 2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Talk of the Nation (NPR) September 25, 2001 (site)
[41:14]
- To the Words [42:31]
- To Ashes [44:36]
- The Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London
by Dylan Thomas [47:29]
Love is Not All (site)
(off-site
text)
“Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” [Sonnet XI]
(RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
1962: My Brother Richard Returns From The Monastery
(RA download) (site)
1962: My Brother Richard Returns From The Monastery
(QT download) (site)
Helen (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Helen And Martha (RA download & QT download) (site)
Martha And Helen (RA download & QT download) (site)
Slow dancing in D.C. (site)
Public Interest Interview (NPR) May 19, 1999 (site)
with other local poets
And the City Stood in its Brightness (text)
Conversation with Jeanne (text)
A Poem for the End of the Century (text)
UC Berkeley Reading, February 3, 2000 (site)
UC Berkeley Reading , April 4, 1983 (site)
with Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass
- Introduction
- Reading
Bookworm on KCRW, November 24, 1998 (site)
on Old Age and Influence
Bookworm on KCRW, November 22, 1998 (site)
on Post War
Bookworm on KCRW, November 19, 1998 (site)
Introduction and Childhood
Bookworm on KCRW, November 12, 1998 (site)
on Young Adulthood
Bookworm on KCRW, November 5, 1998 (site)
Introduction and Childhood
Golden Bough: The Feather Palm (text)
Lost Parrot (text)
Paranormal Writing (mp3) (text)
Paranormal Writing (.wav) (text)
Edward (wmp) (text)
Armor's Understanding Modesty (site)
A Carriage from Sweden (site)
(off-site
text)
from Fables of La Fontaine (site)
A Face (site)
The Fish (site)
The Fish (QT download) (site)
The Mind is an Enchanted Thing (site)
Nevertheless (site)
(off-site
text partial)
Nine Nectarines (site)
(off-site
text)
Propriety (site)
Rigorists (site)
Spenser's Ireland (site)
(off-site
text)
To a Steam Roller (site)
(off-site
text)
What are Years? (site)
The Wood-Weasel (site)
Poetry Reading (Harvard, date unknown) (site)
Rough Beast (text)
Girdling (text)
The Grain of Sound (text)
Option (text)
Wind From a Waterfall (text)
Chain Gang (mp3) (site)
Project Princess (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Project Princess (.wav) (text)
Word Up! Reading (site)
-
- Project Princess (off-site
text)
- A Flood: Speaks for Itself
- Mother Load
- Prelude to a Kiss
- The Gangsta Suite: Who Knew
- Skin
All Things Considered (NPR) November 17, 1997 (site)
Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)
Annie Oakley Blows Kisses To Her Audience (text)
His Odyssey (wmp low quality) (text)
His Odyssey (wmp high quality) (text)
His Odyssey (mp3) (text)
Let's Do It This Year (text)
Scar (text)
Shine (text)
To My Readers (text)
The Sightseers (text)
The Sightseers (text)
(site)
Symposium (site)
(off-site
text)
Why Brownlee Left (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) November 24, 1997, (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)
Poems (site)
- Grandfather and Grandmother in Love
- An Argument: On 1942
- from After We Lost Our Way
- Listening (off-site text)
- from Colors of Desire
- selection from Turning Japanese: Memoirs of an
Sansei
The Mitchells (site)
The Year of the Kiln Portraits (site)
Duffy and Snellgrove Interview (site)
SMH/Dymocks Literary Lunch, October 1, 1999 (site)
Benares (wmp) (text)
In Memoriam (wmp) (text)
Maxfield Parrish (.au) (text)
Merk (site)
On the Death of Robert Lowell (site)
On the Death of Robert Lowell (mp3) (site)
School of Fish (.wav) (text)
Sleepless (site)
Sleepless (mp3) (site)
Tuesday Brightness (0:50) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Dec. 7, 1977
World of Books (BBC) October 31, 1964 (site)
- the influence of James Joyce, picking and stealing and
rhyming techniques
- women
- other people’s descriptions of him
- the influences and development of American humour
Dusting (text)
Ruellia Noctiflora (text)
Altar Boy Highlights (text)
Ornette Coleman, Live at the Golden Circle (text)
The Lovely Tall Novelist Danced (text)
Poetry Reading, (November, 1970) (site)
Praire Home Companion (site)
- Wedding Cake (off-site
text)
- So There
- How Far is it to the Land (off-site
text)
All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)
(just commentary, but I like it)
Double Portrait (wmp) (text)
Marooned in Dallas (wmp) (text)
No Song I Know (wmp) (text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Little Caboose Of The Emily Dickinson Express)
Poem (Lana Turner has...) / Poem (Hate is only one...) (1:45)
(mp3) (off-site
text) / (off-site
text) (site)
Recorded by Eugene Brooks + Jerry Newman, NYC, Sept. 1963
The Unjustly Punished Child (.wav) (site)
The Clasp (text)
The Ferryer (site)
(off-site text)
A Postcolonial Tale (site)
(off-site text)
BOMB Audio Interview (site)
BOMB Audio Interview (mp3) (site)
Essay/Reading on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(I Think Emily Dickinson Would Have Been Political Today)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
A Morality Play: Preface (site)
Animula (site)
Ballad (site)
But So As By Fire (site)
Exodus (site)
From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's
(site)
Historic Pun (site)
The Impossible Poem (site)
Latitude Longitude (site)
Of Being Numerous (1-22) (site)
"O Withering Seas..." (site)
Primitive (site)
"Silver As..." (site)
Song, Winds of Downhill (site)
The Speech at Soli (site)
The Occurrences (site)
The Taste (site)
The Translucent Mechanics (site)
West (site)
Poetry Reading (NYC, 1967) (site)
Intro. by Armand Schwerner
The Beginning and Ending Song [part 1] (wmp) (site)
The Beginning and Ending Song [part 2] (wmp) (site)
Believing the Belief (wmp) (site)
Busted Boy (wmp) (site)
Greatest Believers and Greatest Disbelievers (wmp) (site)
Indians (wmp) (site)
Just call it smiling for victory (wmp) (site)
Meanwhile (wmp) (site)
A New Story [video: second part] (wmp) (site)
A New Story [audio only] (wmp) (site)
The Polka Dot Kid (wmp) (site)
See Real Indians (wmp) (site)
Strange (wmp) (site)
What I Mean (wmp) (site) (off-site
text)
What Indians? (wmp) (site)
God's Acrostic (wwp) (text)
Spring Sonnet, with my sister's favorite bit of Deborah ...
(wmp) (text)
The Kiss of Judas (text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(When I Was Growing Up Our Teachers Told Us)
The Drummer Boy (wmp) (text)
No Title (1:28) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 8, 1978
All Things Considered (NPR) April 5, 2001 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 25, 1997 (site)
As a Real House (text)
Book of the Yellow Castle (text)
Sun (text)
Flamingo (text)
Fog (text)
Men
(.wav & .au) (text)
Crocuses (text)
Deer (text)
Green Thumb (text)
The New Dog (text)
Prosody 101 (text)
Postscript (text)
Lilacs on My Birthday (wmp) (text)
Gesture, Possibly Archaic (wmp) (site)
A Great Noise (wmp) (text)
The Point of the Lambs (wmp) (text)
Spoils, Dividing (wmp) (text)
This Train (wmp) (text)
A kind of theft (text)
I awake feathered (text)
Oh, Veblen, this is much better (text)
Old moon cradling the new moon (text)
Quarrel in the berry patch (text)
What are big girls made of? (text)
Born Again (text)
from A Christmas Poem (text)
Renting July (text)
Train with Snow and Ice (text)
Syntax (.wav) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, March 20, 1998 (site)
reading These Images in honor of the first day of spring
ABC (site)
(off-site
text)
ABC (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
ABC (QT) (site)
(off-site
text)
Biography (text)
First Early Mornings Together (.wav) (text)
The Haunted Ruin (text)
The Haunted Ruin (wmp) (text
bottom of page)
Jar of Pens (text)
Samurai Song (site)
(off-site
text)
The Want Bone (site)
(off-site
text)
History of My Heart (text)
from The Inferno of Dante (site)
- From Canto I (1-69, 89-109)
- From Canto II (1-11)
- From Canto V (22-44, 64-127) (off-site
text)
Jar of Pens (text)
Jersey Rain (text)
The Tuning (text)
Vessel (text)
Internet Poetry Archive (entire reading) (text)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Shirt (with commentary) (text)
- Ginza Samba (with commentary) (text)
- Impossible to Tell (with commentary and afterword) (text)
- Poems with Refrains (with commentary) (text)
- The Night Game (with commentary) (text)
- Ode to Meaning (with commentary) (text)
- To Television (text)
- The Green Piano (with commentary) (text)
- At Pleasure Bay (with commentary) (text)
New York Times, Farrar Straus Giroux reading (site)
- Several Voices Out of a Cloud
- Chanson Un Peu Naïve
- Simple Autumnal (by Louise Bogan)
- The Want Bone (off-site
text)
- The Shirt (off-site
text)
Anthem (NPR) January 30, 1999 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Runagate, Runagate, by Robert Hayden
Anthem (NPR) January 9, 1999 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Anthem (NPR) May 9, 1998 (site)
on Lawrence Tribe's favorite poem
Anthem (NPR) January 3, 1998 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Anthem (NPR) January 3, 1998 (site)
on Library of Congress's Favorite Poems reading
American Laureate Leads Poetry Revival
(wmp) (interview
text)
The Connection (WBUR) June 12, 2000 (site)
Millennium Evening at White House April 22, 1998: (site)
Guest Lecturers: Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove
Poetry in America: A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration:
Favorite Poems by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove,
Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin, along with Joshua Weiner and
Naomi Shihab Nye.
- April 3, 2000 (site)
- April 4, 2000 (site)
Morning Edition Literacy Project (NPR), March 19, 2001 (site)
Wired for Books, Mark Halliday interviews Robert Pinsky (site)
Wired for Books, John Ray interviews Robert Pinsky (site)
Poet Laureate's Annual Lecture, October 8, 1998 (site)
Poetry and American Memory
Poet Laureate's Annual Lecture Alternate Link (alternate
site)
PBS Online Newshour, April 10, 2000, Interview (transcript)
on the Favorite Poem Project
PBS Online Newshour, April 2, 1997, Interview (transcript)
- To Television (off-site
text)
- December Blues (off-site
text)
Talk of the Nation: Magnetic Poetry (NPR) (site)
Weekend Addition (NPR) February 28, 1998 (site)
speaks about Pledge Allegiance Pause
All the Dead Dears (site)
(off-site
text)
The Applicant (site)
(off-site
text)
Ariel (site)
(off-site
text)
Battle-Scene (site)
(off-site
text)
A Birthday Present (site)
(off-site
text)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (site)
(off-site
text)
Candles (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (site)
Daddy (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Departure of the Ghost (The Ghost's Leavetaking) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Disquieting Muse (site)
(off-site
text)
Fever 103º (site)
(off-site
text)
Full Fathom Five (site)
(off-site
text)
Full Fathom Five (site)
(off-site
text)
The Ghost's Leavetaking (Departure of the Ghost)
(site)
(off-site
text)
Lady Lazarus (text)
Lady Lazarus (site)
(off-site
text)
Lady Lazarus (site)
(off-site
text)
Leaving Early (site)
(off-site
text)
Lorelei (RA download) (site) (off-site
text)
Lorelei (site)
(off-site
text)
Lorelei (site)
(off-site
text)
Mushrooms (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Nick and the Candlestick (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Decline of Oracles (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Decline of Oracles (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad (RA & mp3)
(site)
On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad (site)
On the Plethora of Dryads (site)
Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering (site)
(off-site
text)
Point Shirley (site)
(off-site
text)
Point Shirley (site)
(off-site
text)
Purdah (site)
(off-site
text)
Sow
(RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Sow (site)
(off-site
text)
The Stones (site)
(off-site
text)
Poems from Harper Audio Listening Room (site)
The Connection (NPR) December 15, 2000 (site)
PBS Online NewsHour, February 18, 1998 (transcript)
Ted Hughes' poems about Sylvia Plath
Cheer (wmp) (text)
Grievers (wmp) (text)
In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel (text)
John 6:17 (text)
The Marriage in the Trees (text)
Naps (text)
Piano (text)
Strays (text)
Turn, Counterturn, Stand (wmp) (text)
Will Work for Food (text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
My Address is on the Street (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Eight Forty-Eight (site)
reading Sharecropper at end of program
Drunk And Disorderly, Big Hair (wmp audio & video) (site)
I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere (wmp) (site)
Pourriture Noble (wmp) (site)
Wearing the Gaze of an Archaic Statue (wmp) (site)
What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up [Part 1] (wmp)
(site)
What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up [Part 2] (wmp)
(site)
Cantico del Sole (site)
(off-site
text)
from The Cantos
- Canto I (site)
(off-site
text)
- Canto IV (site)
- Canto XXXVI (site)
- Canto XLV (site)
- Canto LI (site)
- from Canto LXXVI (site)
- Canto LXXXIV (site)
- Canto 99 (site)
Canto 1 (text)
Excerpt from The Cantos (RA & mp3) (site)
Exile's Letter (site)
The Gypsy (site)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (site)
(off-site
text)
Moeurs Contemporaines (site)
Harper Collins Audio (site)
The Four Steps [talk] (BBC) June 21, 1958 (site)
outlining his antipathy towards all forms of bureacracy
from WWII Radio Speeches
- "Power" (site)
Jim Powell
Siegfried's Destiny (wmp) (text)
In Horsegrazing Siena (wmp) (text)
Coping with Awe
(text)
News from the Edge
of the World (text)
These Winter Evenings
(text)
There Has Been a
Town Surged Under (text)
Picking Them
(text)
Back from Aqueduct
(text)
Silver Trumpet,
Satin Cap (text)
Brooklyn Snapshot (text)
August 1959 (text)
The Day of Good Looks (text)
The Day of Patience (text)
Conversation Piece (text)
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai (text)
Nor'easter Morning (text)
Unfinished Elegy (text)
Ah, (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Angel Applicant (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Athlete's Head (mp3 & .wav) (text)
The Body Pledges Its Allegiance (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Forgetful Angel (mp3 & .wav) (text)
The Fourth of July (site)
Gladiolus (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Gospel (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Group Portrait with Ukuleles (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Man Under a Pear Tree (mp3 & .wav) (text)
My Students Against the Cemetery Pines (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Rough-Cut Head (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Surgeon (peeling an orange) (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Winterreise (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Woman Flying (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Anhinga Reading Six Poems (all six) (site)
- Rough-Cut Head (off-site
text)
- Winterreise (off-site
text)
- Gladiolus (off-site
text)
- Group Portrait with Ukeleles (off-site
text)
- The Fourth of July
- Woman Flying (text)
I Get a Feeling (text)
This Summer (.wav) (text)
Cycle (text)
My Daughters in New York (text)
Married Blues (site)
Kaddish (site)
(off-site
text excerpt)
The Lamps are Burning (site)
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays (site)
Salmon and Wine (site)
Samuel (site)
The Art of Translation (off-site
text)
Diving into the Wreck (site)
(off-site
text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(This Is My Third and Last Address to You)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
My Godzilla (wmp) (text)
Frescoes Underground (text)
Into the Wall (text)
Never Forget (text)
Piero's Resurrection (text)
Secret Hours (text)
Terra Cotta (text)
Vespers (text)
Docudrama (wmp) (text)
The Favored (wmp) (text)
What I Know (wmp) (text)
Weekend Edition (NPR) January 2, 1999 (site)
on his Word Wide residency (site)
National Endowment of the Arts program
I Need (site)
My Papa's Waltz (text)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1999) (site)
Late Elvis (site)
(text)
Lover Release Agreement (site)
(text)
Password (site)
(text)
Raven (site)
(text)
Reading at the Y (site)
(text)
Sea and Rain (site)
(text)
Sole Blessing (site)
(text)
Prologomena to a Poetics (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Bookworm on KCRW, March 22, 2001 (site)
LINEbreak (RA & RA download) (site)
That Dada Strain (selections) (RA & RA download) (site)
(off-site text)
David J. Rothman
Not My Leg (text)
The Conjugation of the Paramecium (text)
Despisals (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Despisals (site)
(off-site
text)
Poem (RA download) (site)
Among English Verbs (text)
Emptiness (text)
This Life (text)
Lavender Disaster (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, August 26, 1999 (site)
Cortland Review Interview (text)
- ...about where he gets ideas for his poems
- ...on what we should ask ourselves as poets
A Kiss in Space (text)
Song No. 2 (site)
[I've been keeping company with the layaway man]
(Set. No. 2) (RA download & QT download) (site)
Wounded in the House of a Friend (Set No. 2) (site)
Anthem (NPR) Callaloo Remembers Sterling Brown,
with Sonia Sanchez (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) March 9, 2000 (site)
Voices in the Family (WHYY) October 19, 1998 (site)
The People, Yes (site)
Earth Day Story (text)
My Place (text)
Worn Tool (text)
After Catullus (wmp) (text)
The Fostering (wmp) (text)
Illuminated Manuscript (wmp) (text)
Llandudno (wmp) (text)
Romeo & Juliet (wmp) (text)
Small Variations (wmp) (text)
Spring Elegy (wmp) (text)
(For Frank Vincent, my student, who died of AIDS
March 17, 1997)
A Tulip in Winter (wmp) (text)
for Janice Fitzpatrick
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Prisoner at a Desk
- The Phoenix
- The Lady and the Unicorn/ The Cluny Tapestries
- The Swans
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- The Muse as Medusa
- Metamorphosis; Mozart Again
- The Olive Grove
- The First Autumn (For My Mother)
- The House in Winter
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Of the Seasons/Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
- My Sisters, O My Sisters
- The Return of Aphrodite.
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- On a Winter Night
- Death and the Turtle
- A Celebration of George Sarton
- An Observation, Girl with Cello
Talk of the Nation (NPR) June 25, 1999 (site)
Letter to the Draft Board (text)
Prayer to Simone Weil (text)
Sleep, Gods, the Night Is Long (text)
Sonnet (text)
from bum series (site)
(text)
from Friendship (site)
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (site)
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download) (site)
He Tells His Mother What He's Working On (wmp) (text)
Her Waltz (wmp) (text)
Shut-Eye (text)
Small Airport in Brazil (text)
The Two Horses, a Memory (wmp) (text)
Fresh Air (NPR) November 20, 2000 (site)
Got him another look... (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (site)
(off-site text)
The Year 2000 (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
All My Pretty Ones (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Her Kind (text)
Her Kind (site)
(off-site
text)
Music Swims Back to Me (RA dowload) (text)
You Doctor Martin (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Said the Poet to the Analyst (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Truth The Dead Know (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
- Self in 1958
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods
- Making a Living
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Her Kind (off-site
text)
- The Ambition Bird (off-site
text)
- Ringing the Bells (off-site
text)
- Music Swims Back to Me (off-site
text)
- The Truth the Dead Know (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- With Mercy for the Greedy (off-site
text)
- The Starry Night (off-site
text)
- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
(off-site
text)
- Self in 1958
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods Making a Living
- Jesus Cooks
- Jesus Walking
- The Fury of Overshoes (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Rowing (off-site
text)
- Riding the Elevator Into the Sky (off-site
text)
- The Play
- The Rowing Endeth (off-site
text)
- Us
- The Touch (off-site
text)
Poems (site)
- Her Kind (off-site
text)
- The Ambition Bird (off-site
text)
- Ringing the Bells (off-site
text)
- Music Swims Back to Me (off-site
text)
- The Truth the Dead Know (off-site
text)
- With Mercy for the Greedy (off-site
text)
- The Starry Night (off-site
text)
- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
(off-site
text)
- Self in 1958
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods
- Making a Living
- Jesus Cooks
- Jesus Walking
- The Fury of Overshoes (off-site
text)
- Rowing (off-site
text)
- Riding the Elevator Into the Sky (off-site
text)
- The Play
- The Rowing Endeth (off-site
text)
- Us
- The Touch (off-site
text)
Anne Sexton singing with Her Kind (rock group) (site)
- Woman with Girdle (.aiff & .wav)
- Woman with Girdle sample (.aiff & .wav)
The Accident (wmp) (text)
Bonsai, Golden Lotus (wmp) (text)
Hallway (wmp) (text)
The Naked Eye (wmp) (text)
Old Joke (wmp) (text)
Phone Call (wmp) (text)
Scan (wmp) (text)
Anthem (NPR) January 16, 1999 (site)
poems on Michael Jordon
All Things Considered, Obituary, May 17,2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Dear Gonglya (site)
(off-site text)
Dear Gonglya (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Your One Good Dress (site)
(off-site text)
Your One Good Dress (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Baby in the Treetop (text)
Gerbilicious Winter (text)
God speed (text)
Hermana Sandinista (text)
Noon Whistle (text)
White Iris (text)
Albany (text)
Oz (text)
Oz (site)
(off-site
text)
Live at the Writers House (site)
Poetry Reading (La Jolla, 1999) (site)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)
with Rae Armantrout
SUNY Buffalo EPC Reading, 1995 (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, May 10, 1999 (site)
Leaving an Unknown City (text)
Riddle (text)
We were so poor... (RA & mp3) (site)
from A Fly in the Soup (memoir) (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 23, 1999 (site)
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis (text)
Ballade: Women of Time Past (text)
A Farewell to his Muse (text)
San Destin (wmp) (text)
Autobiographical (wmp) (text)
History (text)
Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb (wmp) (text)
Demon (wmp) (text)
Prayer (wmp) (text)
1-A, 1968 (wmp) (text)
For You (wmp) (text)
Los Dos Rancheros (site)
(off-site
text)
Los Dos Rancheros (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Wired for Books, Fifteen Poems (site)
Biting Back (site)
Chinese Cucumbers (site)
Chinese Cucumbers (site)
Dark Magicians (site)
New York Heavyweight Bout (mp3) (site)
(Sherman Alexie reads &Vibratto8 and Patricia Smith reads
& For John Coltrane 8)
Skinhead (site)
Sweet Daddy (site)
Terrell's Take on Things (site)
What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)
(site)
The Connection (NPR) January 5th, 2001 (site)
The Connection (NPR) May 19, 2000 (site)
After the Record Contract (site)
An Early Poem That's Still First in the Book (site)
Dream of Life: The 1980's and 1990's (site)
The Histories of the Universe (7:46) (mp3) (site)
Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan 1, 1975
Patti Smith Reads from 'Collection' and Performs 'Last Call'
(off-site
text) and 'Beneath the Southern Cross'
(off-site
text) (site)
Question & Answer (site)
92nd Street Y reading (site)
- Introduction
- An Early Poem That's Still First in the Book
- After the Record Contract
- Dream of Life: The 1980's and 1990's
- Question & Answer
- Patti Smith Reads from 'Collection' and Performs 'Last
Call' (off-site
text) and 'Beneath the Southern Cross' (off-site
text)
All Clear (text)
Charity (text)
Comet (text)
Birdie (text)
Demotic (text)
The Girls of O'Connell Street (text)
Glossolalia (text)
House of Words (text)
A Lasting Fire (text)
Moth Aubade (text)
Nixology (text)
Sourwood (text)
Unnatural Selection (text)
Yule, Mall, Petting Zoo (text)
Cortland Review Video Reading (site)
Not Waving but Drowning (site)
(text in link)
The Lively Arts (BBC) November 21, 1965 (site)
- her sources of inspiration, the gestation of a poem
- her poem 'V'
from Heart's Needle (site)
(off-site
text)
Summer of Ninety-Seven (wmp) (text)
Poetry Reading UC Berkeley, March 12, 1987 (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) November 22, 1997 (site)
Best Minds Poetry Series (site)
PBS Online News Hour, April 22, 1996 (site)
artistic side of Earth Day, also with Robert Hass
My Mother's Chess (text)
My Daughter at Chess (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 30, 2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Black Star Yearning (text)
Seasons Journal (wmp) (text)
Valentine (text)
White Water Vision (text)
Choosing a Dog (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Explaining the Big One (RA download) (site)
First Grade (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Lit. Instructor (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Over the Mountain (RA download) (site)
(off-site text)
with Robert Bly reading The Foghorn and discussion
A Ritual to Read to Each Other (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Roll Call (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Security (RA download) (site) (off-site
text)
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach (site)
(off-site
text)
With Kit, Age Seven, at the Beach (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
from A Literary Friendship (RA download) (site)
excerpts from a discussion with Robert Bly
- Early Roots
- Golden Threads
- Coincidence
- Simplicity and MTV
- Writing Poetry
- William Stafford's Work
Autumn Botany (text)
Cassandra (text)
Midas at Sunset (text)
The Sibyl Speaks (text)
"To Speke of Wo that Is in Mariage" (text)
All Things Considered, Obituary, July 30, 1998 (site)
If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso (site)
(off-site
text)
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (site)
(off-site
text)
If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso (.au)
(site)
(off-site
text)
Madame Recamier: An Opera (site)
The Making of Americans (1 & 2) (site)
(off-site
text selection)
Matisse (site)
(off-site text)
A Portrait of Christian Berard, a Painter (site)
A Portrait of T.S. Eliot (site)
She Bowed to Her Brother (site)
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (RA download) (site)
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (site)
A Valentine for Sherwood Anderson (site)
At the Hill School guest house in Pottstown, Pa. (wmp) (text)
The Dancing (text)
The Dog (mp3) (text)
Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze
(wmp) (text)
Sylvia (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 2, 1999 (site)
- They Were Both 65
All Things Considered (NPR) March 28, 1999 (site)
- Excerpt, There is Wind, There are Matches
All Things Considered (NPR) March 27, 1999 (site)
- Paris
PBS Online Newshour, November 23, 1998, Interview (transcript)
Credences of Summer (site)
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour (site)
(off-site
text)
In the Element of Antagonisms (site)
The Idea of Order at Key West (text)
The Idea of Order At Key West (site)
(off-site
text)
Large Red Man Reading (site)
The Life of a Poet (A Prose Note) (site)
Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (site)
(off-site
text)
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself (.aiff) (site)
(off-site
text)
Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain (site)
(off-site
text)
from Prologues to What is Possible (site)
Puella Parvula (site)
This Solitude of Cataracts (site)
(off-site
text)
The Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note) (site)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome (RA & .au) (off-site
text)
To An Old Philosopher In Rome (site)
(off-site
text)
Two Illustrations The the World Is What You Make of It (site)
Vacancy in the Park (site)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- The Idea of Order at Key West (off-site
text)
- The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain
- Vacancy in the Park
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(Breaking the Tired Mold of American Poetry)
From a Litany (site)
From the Long Sad Party (text)
The Night, the Porch (wmp) (text)
Somewhere Else (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, October 26, 2000 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 14, 2000 (site)
PBS Online Newshour, April 15, 1999, Interview (transcript)
for Pulitzer Prize
Talk of the Nation (NPR) December 22, 1999 (site)
talks about state of poetry today with Deborah Garrison
the sound of the memory (RA & mp3) (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) February 5, 1999 (site)
second half of audio
Ceramic Fish (site)
(off-site
text)
Chimera (site)
Dasein (text)
Deep Adjustments (text)
Heart of the Fugue (text)
Laughter of the Loon (text)
Mirror, Cignal, Minerva (text)
Reading Palms (site)
Shakespeare, Semaphore (text)
Aubade (text)
Belles Lettres (text)
Land's Cape (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, August 5, 1999 (site)
The Mediterranean (text)
Restless Leg Syndrome (text)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (text)
After Basho (text)
Event Horizons (text)
History's Stories (text)
History's Stories (text)
Moment (text)
South Beach Wedding (text)
South Beach Wedding (text)
Thera (text)
Wilderness (text)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion (.wav) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait (.wav) (site)
(text)
A Child's Christmas In Wales (site)
A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems (site)
A Child's Christmas in Wales (RA & mp3) (site)
Do not go gentle into that good night (text)
Do not go gentle into that good night (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Do not go gentle into that good night (.wav) (off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- No Sun Shines (off-site
text)
- The Hand that Signed the Paper (off-site
text)
- Should Lanterns Shine (off-site
text)
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion (off-site
text)
- and the first verse of Altarwise by Owl Light
(off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems
(RA & .au) (site)
- Poem in October (off-site
text)
- This Side of the Truth (off-site
text)
- Love in the Asylum (off-site
text)
- The Hunchback in the Park (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (off-site
text)
- On the Marriage of a Virgin (off-site
text)
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (off-site
text)
- Ceremony After a Fire Raid
Misc. Poems (site)
- Death Shall Have No Dominion (off-site
text)
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (off-site
text)
- On the Marriage of a Virgin (off-site
text)
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (off-site
text)
- Ceremony After a Fire Raid
- No Sun Shines (off-site
text)
- The Hand that Signed the Paper (off-site
text)
- Should Lanterns Shine (off-site
text)
- Altarwise by Owl Light (off-site
text)
- Poem in October (off-site
text)
- This Side of the Truth (off-site
text)
- Love in the Asylum (off-site
text)
- The Hunchback in the Park (off-site
text)
Reminiscences of Childhood (BBC) May 6, 1953 (site)
- first childhood impressions of his home town
- school, and the endurance of childhood memories
- the local park as his childhood world
- secret societies and their initiation rites
All Colors Not White (RA & mp3) (site)
All Colors Not White (site)
Exotic People (RA & mp3) (site)
Mirror-fuc-cation (site)
A Page from the Flictionary of Deafeningition Part 1 (site)
A Page from the Flictionary of Deafeningition Part 2 (site)
Rhumba Bomballett (site)
Untitled Eternity (mp3) (site)
A Wutherance of E (site)
A Wutherance of E (site)
Kelly Writer's House Reading/Performance (site)
Super Fine Pitch (site)
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris Reading
University of Hawai'i, Manoa Reading (site)
Dragonfly (wmp) (text)
Last Hike Before Leaving Montana (wmp) (text)
Missoula Winter: the Thaw, the Ice Floes, and the Boy (wmp)
(text)
Change for Margaret & Porter (text)
link in text
Poem For Magic (site)
(off-site
text)
Skulls Along the River (mp3) (site)
So What (RA & mp3) (site)
Cleveland Public Radio (site)
discussing James Baldwin and Miles Davis
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Whad'Ya Know (WPR), September 23, 2000 (site)
My Toshiba (wmp) (text)
Roach Holder, c. 1967 (wmp) (text)
Poems from The Kshanti Literary Review (.wav) (text)
- Early Lesson
- Zazen, Wired
- Zazen, Tired
- Mountains and Rivers
- Cat and Mirror
- Stray
- Ignorant Poem
from Endings (text)
Himalaya (wmp) (text)
Song and Story (text)
I've had to Learn to Live with My Face (site)
(off-site text)
Hopes & Fears (site)
Naropa University reading (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 ( | 
