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Poet Interviews

[ 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 ]

Virginia Hamilton Adair

PBS Online News Hour, September 4, 1996,
Interview (transcript)

Elizabeth Alexander

Anthem (NPR) July 17, 1999 (site)

Sherman Alexie

Bookworm on KCRW, September 28, 2000 (site)

The Connection (NPR) July 3, 2000 (site)

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

A.R. Ammons

Morning Edition (NPR) February 27, 2001 (site)
Obituary, reading In Memorium for May Novelet (sp?)

Bruce Andrews

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

Maya Angelou

on Sesame Street (QT) (site)

Wired for Books Interview (site)

Rae Armantrout

on Emily Dickinson (site)

John Ashbery

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W. H. Auden

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

Jimmy Santiago Baca

PBS Online Newshour, August 9, 2001, Interview (site)
two new books, Healing Earthquakes and A Place to Stand

Amiri Baraka

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

Coleman Barks

The Connection (NPR) November 22, 1999 (site)
on the Persian poet Rumi

Morning Edition (NPR) November 12, 2001 (site)

Marvin Bell

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

Wendell Berry

All Things Considered (NPR) December 24, 1998 (site)

Window Poem #3
Come Forth
The Wild Rose (off-site text)

Charles Bernstein

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

Richard Blanco

All Things Considered (NPR) October 6, 1997 (site)

Robin Blaser

Charles Olson Lectures (Buffalo, 1987) (site)

Robert Duncan Lecture (Buffalo, 1996) (site)

Chana Bloch

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

Robert Bly

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)

Gwendolyn Brooks

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)

Sterling Brown

Anthem (NPR) Callaloo Remembers Sterling Brown with Sonia Sanchez (site)

Charles Bukowski

Interview with Bukowski [excerpt] (RA & mp3) (site)

Jim Carroll

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)

Anne Carson

Bookworm on KCRW, August 7, 1997 (RA download) (site)

Lorna Dee Cervantes

All Things Considered (NPR) January 18, 1999 (site)

Fooling with Words (PBS) Interview (QT) (site)

Marylin Chin

All Things Considered (NPR) May 26, 1999 (site)

Song of the Sad Guitar
The Floral Apron (off-site text)

Lucille Clifton

Bookworm on KCRW, October 17, 1995 (site)

Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)

WBFO's Spoken Arts (site)

Henri Cole

All Things Considered (NPR) January 24, 1999 (site)

White Spine
Peonies
Horses (off-site text)

Michael Collier

Public Interest Interview (NPR) May 10, 2001 (site)
the new Maryland Poet Laureate

Billy Collins

All Things Considered (NPR) September 4, 2001 (site)

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)

Jane Cooper

All Things Considered (NPR) June 29, 2000 (site)

Rent (off-site text)
The Blue Anchor

Gregory Corso

All Things Considered (NPR) January 21, 2001 (site)
Tom Vitale pays tribute to Beat poet Gregory Corso

Robert Creeley

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)

Toi Derricotte

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(We Ain't Seen Nothing Yet!)

W.S. Di Piero

Morning Edition (NPR) August 17, 2001 (site)
talking about his new collection of poems titled Skirts and Slacks

Emily Dickinson (by others of course)

Rae Armantrout on Emily Dickinson (site)

Diane Di Prima

BayTV Interview (site)

Flashpoint Interview (KPFA) [start 2:45] (site)

West Coast Live June 23, 2001 (NPR) (site)

Ed Dorn

Reading and discussion of Gunslinger (Buffalo, 1974) (site)

Mark Doty

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)

Rita Dove

Anthem (NPR) June 13, 1998 (site)
on how she writes - with Veronica Chambers

Poets In Person Interview (mp3) (site)

Alan Dugan

All Things Considered (NPR) November 15, 2001 (site)

Robert Duncan

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)

Stephen Dunn

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

Cornelius Eady

All Things Considered (NPR) February 11, 2001 (site)

Russell Edson

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)

Martin Espada

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)

Sascha Feinstein

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

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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]

Ben Friedlander

Suny Buffalo EPC Interview/Reading (1995)
(RA & RA download) (site)

Robert Frost

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

Heather Fuller

U of Penn Phillytalks #9, plus Melanie Neilson (site)

Tess Gallagher

Bookworm on KCRW, February, 1998 (site)

Wired for Book Interview 1986 (site)

James Galvin

Bookworm on KCRW, December 23, 1999 (site)

Deborah Garrison

Talk of the Nation (NPR) December 22, 1999 (site)
about the state of poetry today with Mark Strand

Sandra Gilbert

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(I, Too, Will Be "Uncle Sandra")

Allen Ginsberg

Fresh Air Interview (NPR) October 19, 1999 (site)

singing on CNN (QT) (site)

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)

Nikki Giovanni

Literature of Life Interview (site)

Weekend Edition (NPR) September 19, 1999 (site)

Eugene Gloria

Weekend Edition (NPR) Sunday, August 20,2000 (site)

Jorie Graham

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

Eamon Grennan

All Things Considered (NPR) June 30, 1999 (site)
reading from Sea Dog

Barbara Guest

Bookworm on KCRW, July 11, 1996 (site)
on Truth in Poetry

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

Marilyn Hacker

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

Donald Hall

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)

Joy Harjo

Native America Calling Interview (NPR) (site)

Talk of the Nation (NPR) June 17, 1999 (site)

Michael Harper

The Connection (WBUR) February 24, 2000 (site)
on African American poetry

Fresh Air Interview (NPR) March 9, 2000 (site)

Robert Hass

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)

Seamus Heaney

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]

Lyn Hejinian

Kelly Writer's House Lecture (site)
a lecture on Gertrude Stein

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

Edward Hirsch

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

Bob Holman

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

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

Ted Hughes

All Things Considered (NPR) October 29, 1998, (site)
Obituary

Gray Jacobik

All Things Considered (NPR) July 13, 1999 (site)
reading, Every Man Whose Soul is Not a Clod Hath Visions

Ha Jin

Bookworm on KCRW, January 4, 2001 (site)

WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) August 24, 2000 (RA download) (site)

Ted Joans

All Things Considered, June 1, 2001 (site)

Rodney Jones

All Things Considered (NPR) July 4, 1999 (site)

excerpt Elegy For The Southern Drawl (offsite text)

June Jordan

Kelly Writer's House Lecture (site)

Judy Jordon

All Things Considered (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)

Jane Kenyon

Fresh Air (NPR) December 29, 1999 (site)

Galway Kinnell

Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)
When did you start writing?

Kenneth Koch

Ann Online Interview (site)

Yusef Komunyakaa

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)

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

Maxine Kumin

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Uses of Emily)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Stanley Kunitz (former Poet Laureate)

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)

James Laughlin

Laughlin on e.e.cummings (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Laughlin on Poetry and Pound (mp3 & m3u) (site)

PoetryPoetry Reading (m3u) (site)

Li-Young Lee

Bookworm (KCRW) September 27, 2001 (site)

David Lehman

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"

Philip Levine

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)

Jackson Mac Low

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

Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)

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

J.D. McClatchy

All Things Considered (NPR) (site)

The Connection (NPR) September 18, 2000 (site)
on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Michael McClure

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)

Heather McHugh

All Things Considered (NPR) April 15, 1997 (site)

The Size of Spokane [start 1:03]
What He Thought [start 3:49] (off-site text)

Maurice Manning

All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 2001 (site)

Christopher Merrill

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

James Merrill

The Connection (NPR) April 13, 2000 (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W.S. Merwin

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]

E. Ethelbert Miller

Public Interest Interview (NPR) May 19, 1999 (site)
with other local poets

Czeslaw Milosz

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

Tracie Morris

All Things Considered (NPR) November 17, 1997 (site)

Paul Muldoon

All Things Considered (NPR) November 24, 1997, (site)

All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)

Ogden Nash

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

Naomi Shihab Nye

All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)
(just commentary, but I like it)

Joyce Carol Oates

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Little Caboose Of The Emily Dickinson Express)

Sharon Olds

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)

Alicia Ostriker

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(When I Was Growing Up Our Teachers Told Us)

Ron Padgett

All Things Considered (NPR) April 5, 2001 (site)

Bookworm on KCRW, September 25, 1997 (site)

Wang Ping

All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, March 20, 1998 (site)
reading These Images in honor of the first day of spring

Robert Pinsky

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

Sylvia Plath

The Connection (NPR) December 15, 2000 (site)

PBS Online NewsHour, February 18, 1998 (transcript)
Ted Hughes' poems about Sylvia Plath

Ezra Pound

The Four Steps [talk] (BBC) June 21, 1958 (site)
outlining his antipathy towards all forms of bureacracy

from WWII Radio Speeches

"Power" (site)

Adrienne Rich

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(This Is My Third and Last Address to You)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Luis Rodriguez

Weekend Edition (NPR) January 2, 1999 (site)

on his Word Wide residency (site)
National Endowment of the Arts program

Jerome Rothenberg

Bookworm on KCRW, March 22, 2001 (site)

LINEbreak (RA & RA download) (site)

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

David St. John

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

Sonia Sanchez

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)

Sapphire

Talk of the Nation (NPR) June 25, 1999 (site)

Leslie Scalapino

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (site)

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download) (site)

Lloyd Schwartz

Fresh Air (NPR) November 20, 2000 (site)

Alan Shapiro

Anthem (NPR) January 16, 1999 (site)
poems on Michael Jordon

Karl Shapiro

All Things Considered, Obituary, May 17,2000 (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Shel Silverstien

All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, May 10, 1999 (site)

Charles Simic

Bookworm on KCRW, September 23, 1999 (site)

Patricia Smith

The Connection (NPR) January 5th, 2001 (site)

The Connection (NPR) May 19, 2000 (site)

Stevie Smith

The Lively Arts (BBC) November 21, 1965 (site)

her sources of inspiration, the gestation of a poem
her poem 'V'

Gary Snyder

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

Gary Soto

All Things Considered (NPR) May 30, 2000 (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

William Stafford

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

Maura Stanton

All Things Considered, Obituary, July 30, 1998 (site)

Gerald Stern

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)

Ruth Stone

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(Breaking the Tired Mold of American Poetry)

Mark Strand

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

Sekou Sundiata

Fresh Air Interview (NPR) February 5, 1999 (site)
second half of audio

Arthur Sze

Bookworm on KCRW, August 5, 1999 (site)

Dylan Thomas

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

Quincy Troupe

Cleveland Public Radio (site)
discussing James Baldwin and Miles Davis

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

Whad'Ya Know (WPR), September 23, 2000 (site)

Anne Waldman

All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
about The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000
with Yusef Komunyakaa and Mark Doty

Derek Walcott

WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) May 3, 2001 (RA download) (site)

Belle Waring

All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, May 25, 1998 (site)

Susan Wheeler

The 1-Minute Author Interview (site)

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

C.K. Williams

All Things Considered (NPR) April 15, 2000 (site)

Glass

Morning Edition (NPR) April 12, 1999 (site)

Miller Williams

Morning Edition (NPR) January 3, 1997 (site)
about inauguration poem

Saul Stacey Williams

Ann Online Interview (site)

Max Winter

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

David Wojahn

Anthem (NPR) December 5, 1998 (site)
about Yale Younger Poets award

Charles Wright

PBS Online Newshour, April 15, 1998, Interview (transcript)
for Pulitzer Prize

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W. B. Yeats

National Lecture on Modern Poetry (BBC) October 11, 1936 (site)
 on the work of Edith Sitwell, the effect of WW1, the revolutionary poet T.S. Eliot, the nature of Modern poets

Kevin Young

All Things Considered (NPR) February 10, 1999 (site)

Eddy Priest's Barbar Shop and Notary
Negative (off-site text)
Blues

Ofelia Zepeda

All Things Considered (NPR) April 26, 2001 (site)

Pulling Down the Clouds
Jewed 'I-Hoi
Riding the Earth