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[ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ]

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Dannie Abse

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

Sherman Alexie

New York Heavyweight Bout (mp3) (site)
(Sherman Alexie reads &Vibratto8 and Patricia Smith reads & For John Coltrane 8)

Agha Shahid Ali

The Purse-Seiner Atlantis (RA & mp3) (text)

A.R. Ammons

Eyesight (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Bruce Andrews

Devo Habit (RA & RA download) (site)

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)

Maya Angelou

Million Man March Poem (QT) (site) (off-site text)

On the Pulse of Morning (.au) (site sort of) (off-site text)
inaugural poem, January 1993

Sepia Fashion Show (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Signifying (RA download) (site)

To A Man (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)

on Sesame Street (QT) (site)

Rae Armantrout

Wake Up (.wav) (text)

John Ashbery

My Erotic Double (RA download) (site)
The link is incorrect on site. Listen here.

Soonest Mended (RA download) (site)

What is Poetry (.wav) (text)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W. H. Auden

As I Walked Out One Evening (RA download) (site)
(off-site text)

Law Like Love (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The More Loving One (RA download) (text)

Under Which Lyre (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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)

Amiri Baraka

The Academic Cowards of Deception (RA download & mp3) (site)

In Walked Bud (RA & mp3) (site)

Rhythim Blues (RA download & QT download) (site)

Shazam Doowah (RA download QT download) (site)

Michael Basinski

Job Disatisfaction (RA & RA download) (site)

Seasons (RA & RA download) (site)

Shit Piece (RA & RA download) (site)

Marvin Bell

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)

Bill Berkson

Poem (mp3 & .wav) (text)

Charles Bernstein

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)

Elizabeth Bishop

Filling Station (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

The Fish (RA & mp3) (site)

In the Waiting Room (RA & mp3) (site)

Manuelzinho (.au &.wav) first four stanzas (site)

Manuelzinho (.au & .wav) last two stanzas (site)

The Map (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

The Moose (RA & mp3) (site)

Robert Bly

Early Morning Lake (RA download) (site)

Holes in Our Speech (RA download) (site)

On the Oregon Coast, for William Stafford (RA download) (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

Louise Bogan

The Alchemist (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Charles Bukowski

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)

Rafael Campo

Aida (wmp download) (site)

AIDS and the Poetry of Healing [prose] (wmp download) (site)

Allegory (wmp download) (site)

Camino Real [audio only & video] (wmp download) (site)

The Desire to Heal (wmp download) (site)

The Distant Moon (wmp download) [prose] (site)

The Distant Moon (.aiff download) (text)
with commentary

The Farus College (wmp download) (site)

The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
(.aiff download) (text)
with commentary

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

Jim Carroll

Basket Ball Diary August 8, 1965 (RA & .au) (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)

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]

Interview [excerpt] (RA & .au) (site)

Talks about Frank O’Hara (QT download) (site)

Talks about new novel (RA & .au) (site)

Talks about Trinity School (QT download) (site)

Marylin Chin

The Barbarians Are Coming (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

David Citino

Pomp, circumstance, and other songs of a lifetime
(QT download) (text)

Lucille Clifton

Admonitions (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Cruelty (RA download & QT download) (site)

Wanda Coleman

Ms. Sambo and the Tigers (.aiff) (site)

They Will Starve You (mp3) (site)

Jack Collom

Sophisticated Prose (.wav) (text)

Jane Cooper

The Flashboat [download RealJukebox] (site)

In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman [download RealJukebox]  (site)

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)

Jack Coulehan

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

Robert Creeley

Echo (RA download) (site)

First Love (RA download) (site)

First Love (mp2) (site)

First Love (.wav) (site)

from Histoire De Florida (.wav) (text)

from Histoire De Florida (mp3) (text)

Just in Time (RA download) (site)

Thinking (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Windows (RA download) (site)

Windows (mp2) (site)

Windows (.wav) (site)

WBFO Reading (RA download) (site)

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download & mp2) (site)

Cortney Davis

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

Toi Derricotte

On Stopping Late in the Afternoon for Steamed Dumplings (.au) (text)

Poem For My Father (.au) (text)

H.D.

Helen in Egypt (RA download) (site)

Rita Dove

Courtship (.au) (.wav) (site)

Courtship, Diligence (.au) Courtship, Diligence (.wav) (site)

Flash Cards (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Lady Freedom Among Us (.au) (text)

Poets In Person Interview (mp3) (site)

Cornelius Eady

Thelonious Monk (.wav) (text)

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton [from Four Quartets] (site) (mp3) (off-site text)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (mp3) (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)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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)

Constantly Risking Absurdity and Death (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

Driving a Cardboard Automobile Without a License (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

Oh Heart (wmp) [download] (site)

The Pennycandystore Beyond the El (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

The World is a Beautiful Place to be Born into... (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

Counter Balance Poetry Reading (wmp) [download] (site)

Monica Ferrell

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)

Patricia Ferrell

My Institutionals (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

After Apple Picking (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

After Apple-Picking (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)

West-Runnning Brook (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

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)

Poetry and Power:
J. F. Kennedy honoring the poet Robert Frost (RA download) (site)

Forrest Gander

Face (.aiff) (text)

The Fine-Structure Constant (.aiff) (text)

Time and the Hour (.aiff) (text)

Regie Gibson

I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (mp3) (site)

I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep (mp3) (site)

In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)

In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)

Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)

Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)

Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)

Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)

The Moon (mp3) (site)

The Moon (mp3) (site)

Unclothed (mp3) (site)

Unclothed (mp3) (site)

Warehouse (mp3) (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)

Allen Ginsberg

Howl (.wav & .aiff) (site) (off-site text)

Haight-Ashbury in the Sixties Interview
(QT download & .wav) (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)

Nikki Giovanni

Ego Trippin' (RA audio & RA video) (site) (off-site text)

I Am She (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Nikki-Rosa (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Robert Graves

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)

Jorie Graham

Afterwards (mp3) (text)

Barbara Guest

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)

Michael Harper

Rueben, Rueben (RA download & QT download) (site)

Linda Hasselstrom

Hands (mp3) (site)

Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglas (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Those Winter Sundays (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Lyn Hejinian

LINEbreak SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)

Edward Hirsch

Tristran Zara (mp3) (site)

Bob Holman

We Are The Dinosaur (.wav) (text)

Fanny Howe

Creation was the end that preceded means (mp3 & .wav) (text)

Susan Howe

LINEbreak, SUNY Buffalo EPC, 1995 (RA & RA download) (site)

Interview
from her book My Emily Dickinson
from her book The Nonconformist's Memorial

Langston Hughes

Dream Deferred (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

I, Too (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site 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 (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Puzzled (RA & mp3) (site)

Sylverster's Dying Bed (RA & mp3) (site)

Trumpet Player (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Rueben Jackson

jamal's lamentation (RA download & QT download) (site)

self portrait, 1988 (RA download & QT download) (site)

Randall Jarrell

The Lines (RA download) (site)

James Weldon Johnson

We To America (RA download & QT download) (site)

Galway Kinnell

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

Yusef Komunyakaa

Anodyne (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Blue Light Lounge Sutra... (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Nicole Krauss (no bio)

Two Poems (RA & mp3) (site)

The Idea of Helen (off-site text)
Valparaiso (off-site text)

Maxine Kumin

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Stanley Kunitz (former Poet Laureate)

The Old Darned Man (RA & mp3) (site)

The Portrait (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Quarrel (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Round (RA & .au) (text)
introductary remarks

Touch Me (RA & .au) (text)
introductionary remarks

James Laughlin

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)

Ann Lauterbach

ON (Open) (.wav) (text)

David Lehman

Dark City (.au) (text)

Flashback (.au) (text)

The World Trade Center (.au) (text)

Denise Levertov

Woman Alone / Homage to Pavese (3:33) (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
St. Marks Church, NYC, April, 20, 1977

Philip Levine

Clouds (RA download) (site)

The Fox (RA download) (site)

These Streets (RA download) (site)

A Walk with Tom Jefferson (RA download) (site)

Lyn Lifshin

But Instead Has Gone Underground (.wav) (site)
(off-site text)

Geese at Midnight (RA download) (text)

Moving By Touch (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Beth Lisick

The Empress of Sighs (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Weekend Warrior (RA & mp3) (site)

Timothy Liu

Survivors (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Audre Lorde

from A Litany for Survival (QT download) (text)

Robert Lowell

Dunbarton (RA & mp3) (site)

For the Union Dead (RA download) (text)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Skunk Hour (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Ulysses + Circe [9:40] (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 23, 1977

Jackson Mac Low

960 words derived from the name of a deceased friend (.au) with a Variation (site)

Forties 105 - Linguistic Relatives (RA & RA download) (site)

LINEbreak SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)

Radio Reading Project EPC SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download)
(site)

Michael McClure

Rain Mirror (RA & mp3) (site)

Claude McKay

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (RA download & QT download)
(site) (off-site text)

The Tropics In New York (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

James Merrill

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)

A Downward Look (RA & video) (text)

The Emerald (RA Download) (text)

Ice Cap (R & RA video) (text)

Ice Cap (QT download) (text)

Kimono (RA Download) (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)

An Urban Convalescence (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W.S. Merwin

One Story (RA download) (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” [Sonnet XI]
(RA download) (site) (off-site text)

E. Ethelbert Miller

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)

Ange Mlinko

Paranormal Writing (mp3) (text)

Paranormal Writing (.wav) (text)

Marianne Moore

The Fish (QT download) (site)

Tracie Morris

Chain Gang (mp3) (site)

Project Princess (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Project Princess (.wav) (text)

Wendy Mnookin

His Odyssey (mp3) (text)

Eileen Myles

Maxfield Parrish (.au) (text)

On the Death of Robert Lowell (mp3) (site)

School of Fish (.wav) (text)

Sleepless (mp3) (site)

Tuesday Brightness (0:50) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Dec. 7, 1977

Frank O'Hara

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

Sharon Olds

The Unjustly Punished Child (.wav) (site)

BOMB Audio Interview (mp3) (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Ron Padgett

No Title (1:28) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 8, 1978

Dorothy Parker

Men (.wav & .au) (text)

Wang Ping

Syntax (.wav) (text)

Robert Pinsky

ABC (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

ABC (QT) (site) (off-site text)

First Early Mornings Together (.wav) (text)

Sylvia Plath

Black Rook in Rainy Weather (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Daddy (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Lorelei (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Mushrooms (RA & mp3) (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 Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad (RA & mp3) (site)

Sow (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Sterling Plumpp

My Address is on the Street (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Ezra Pound

Excerpt from The Cantos (RA & mp3) (site)

Keith Ratzlaff

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)

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)

Liam Rector

This Summer (.wav) (text)

Adrienne Rich

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Jerome Rothenberg

Prologomena to a Poetics (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

LINEbreak (RA & RA download) (site)

That Dada Strain (selections) (RA & RA download) (site)
(off-site text)

Muriel Rukeyser

Despisals (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Poem (RA download) (site)

Sonia Sanchez

[I've been keeping company with the layaway man]
(Set. No. 2) (RA download & QT download) (site)

May Sarton

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

Leslie Scalapino

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download) (site)

Gil Scott-Heron

Got him another look... (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Year 2000 (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Anne Sexton

All My Pretty Ones (RA & mp3) (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)

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)

Anne Sexton singing with Her Kind (rock group) (site)

Woman with Girdle (.aiff & .wav)
Woman with Girdle sample (.aiff & .wav)

Karl Shapiro

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Brenda Shaughnessy

Dear Gonglya (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Your One Good Dress (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Charles Simic

We were so poor... (RA & mp3) (site)

Charlie Smith

Los Dos Rancheros (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Patricia Smith

New York Heavyweight Bout (mp3) (site)
(Sherman Alexie reads &Vibratto8 and Patricia Smith reads & For John Coltrane 8)

Patti Smith

The Histories of the Universe (7:46) (mp3) (site)
Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan 1, 1975

William Stafford

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 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

Gertrude Stein

If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso (.au) (site) (off-site text)

A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (RA download) (site)

Gerald Stern

The Dog (mp3) (text)

Wallace Stevens

Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself (.aiff) (site) (off-site text)

To an Old Philosopher in Rome (RA & .au) (off-site text)

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

Sekou Sundiata

the sound of the memory (RA & mp3) (site)

Dylan Thomas

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 (RA & mp3) (site)

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)

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

Edwin Torres

All Colors Not White (RA & mp3) (site)

Exotic People (RA & mp3) (site)

Untitled Eternity (mp3) (site)

Quincy Troupe

Skulls Along the River (mp3) (site)

Chocolate Waters

Coin On The Floor At The Redroom (RA download)
(off-site text) (site)

Duped (RA download) (text)

Feminine (RA download) (off-site text) (site)

Happy Birthday Elvis (RA download) (site)

I'm Falling In Love With My Pillow Over You (RA download) (site)

A Journey (RA download) (off-site text) (site)

Passing Through El Paso (RA download) (off-site text) (site)

So I Read You (RA download) (off-site text) (site)

To Be As Drunk And Successful (RA download) (site)

The Turquoise Dress (RA download) (off-site text) (site)

Wildman Of Ninth Avenue (RA download) (text)

Wildman Of Ninth Avenue (QT download) (off-site text) (site)

David Watts

The Body of My Brother (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Chronic Pain Sydrome (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

The Girl in the Painting by Vermeer (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

July 16th (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Late February (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

MS (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Physical Exam (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Restrictive (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Starting the IV: Anesthesia (aiff download) (text)
with commentary

Rachel Wetzsteon

Home and Away [last 10 in 50] (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)

Saul Stacey Williams

Ohm (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Ohm (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Max Winter

Apocrypha (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

C.D. Wright

Everyone in their car... (QT) (site) (site text)

Everyone in their car... (.aiff) (site) (site text)

There are enough signs... (QT) (site) (site text)

There are enough signs... (.aiff) (site) (site text)

This is where... (QT) (site) (site text)

This is where... (.aiff) (site) (site text)

Charles Wright

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

John Yau

Hoboken Palace Gardens (.wav) (text)

David Yezzi

Upon Julia's Breasts (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Ofelia Zepeda

Birth of a Star (RA download) (site)

Clouds (site) (RA download)

The Handsome One (RA download) (site)

Ka:cim Su:dagi (RA download) (site)

Lonely Mountain (RA download) (site)

Riding the Earth (RA download) (site)

Those That Walk the Earth (site)

Butterfly (RA download)
Bat (RA download)
Scorpion (RA download)
Gila Monster (RA download)
Horned Toad (RA download)
Lizard (RA download)
Hummingbird (RA download)