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December 4, 2001:

Kim Addonizio

Full Moon (text)

Them (text)

What the Dead Fear (text)

Sherman Alexie

Bookworm on KCRW, September 28, 2000 (site)

Agha Shahid Ali

The Purse-Seiner Atlantis (text)

The Purse-Seiner Atlantis (mp3) (text)

Amiri Baraka

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

The Academic Cowards of Deception (mp3) (site)

Coleman Barks

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

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

The Fish (site)

The Fish (mp3) (site)

In the Waiting Room (site)

In the Waiting Room (mp3) (site)

The Moose (site)

The Moose (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)

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

Eavan Boland

Limits (text)

Cathy Smith Bowers

Mystery of the Sphinx (text)

Charles Bukowski

Dirty Old Bastard (RA download) [4:28] (site)

Just For Old Times Sake (RA download) [4:07] (site)

The Light of Jesus (RA download) [1:06] (site)

When All the Animals Lie Down (RA download) (site)

Henri Cole

Black Camellia (text)

Billy Collins

Japan (text) correction

This Much I Do Remember (site)

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

The Diane Rehm Show (NPR) (site)
reads from his latest poetry collection and to talks about his plans for his tenure as poet laureate

Fresh Air (NPR) September 26, 2001 (site)

Alfred Corn

Photography (wmp) (text)

Brad Clompus

Long Pond, Fall (text)

Small Disgruntled Meditation (text)

Stuart Dischell

Stevedore (wmp) (text)

Alan Dugan

Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli (site)

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

Denise Duhamel

Ego (text)

Russell Edson

Arizona State University Reading (site)

Forrest Gander

Face (aiff) (text)

The Fine-Structure Constant (aiff) (text)

from The Hugeness of That Which is Missing (text)

Time and the Hour (aiff) (text)

Robert Hass

In a Parish (site)
Fresh Air September 21, 2001 with minimal commentary at beginning

Li-Young Lee

Bookworm (KCRW) September 27, 2001 (site)

David Lehman

Dark City (.au) (text)
part 1

Dark City (.au) (text)
part 2

Flashback (.au) (text)

The World Trade Center (.au) (text)

Philip Levine

Living in Music (text)

W.S. Merwin

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]

Jean Monahan

Rough Beast (text)

Wendy Mnookin

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)

Jacqueline Osherow

God's Acrostic (wwp) (text)

Stanley Plumly

John 6:17 (text)

Sherod Santos

The Fostering (wmp) (text)

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

Gerald Stern

The Dog (mp3) (text)

Quincy Troupe

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

Robert Wrigley

The Other World (text)

Winter Bale (text)

September 4, 2001:

Stanley Kunitz

The Connection (NPR) September 3, 2001 (site)

August 30, 2001:

Dannie Abse

Carnal Knowledge (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Case History (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Origin of Music (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Pathology of Colours (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Stethoscope (aiff download) (text)
commentary

John Ashbery

My Erotic Double (RA download) (site)

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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

Michael Basinski

Job Disatisfaction (site)

Job Disatisfaction (RA download) (site)

Seasons (site)

Seasons (RA download) (site)

Shit Piece (site)

Shit Piece (RA download) (site)

Venedian Beseechers (performed by Zazil) May 8, 2001 (site)

Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1999 (site)

Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1997 (site)

Marvin Bell

The Dead Man's Late Nights (wmp) [download] (site)

Fireflies (wmp) [download] (site)

More Of The Dead Man's Late Nights (wmp) [download] (site)

One of the Animals (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]

Charles Bernstein

Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)

Wendell Berry

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Jayber Crow

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Poetry Reading (Reed College, 1991) (site)

Robin Blaser

Charles Olson Lectures (Buffalo, 1987) (site)

Part One
Part Two
Part Threbe
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six

Neil Bowers

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Loose Ends

Rafael Campo

The Distant Moon (aiff download) (text)
commentary

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

Technology and Medicine (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Towards Curing AIDS (aiff download) (text)
commentary

What the Body Told (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Jack Coulehan

Alabama (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Anatomy Lesson (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Appetite (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Complications (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Dust of the West (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Dynamizer and the Oscilloclast: in memory of Albert Abrams, an American quack (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Finches (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Irene (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Jerusalem (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Man with Stars Inside Him (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Medicine Stone (aiff download) (text)
commentary

My Uganda (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Power of Inclination (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Resurrection Trade (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Shall Inherit (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Six Hundred Pound Man (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Sunsets (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Tumbleweed (aiff download) (text)
commentary

The Worm: Elderside Clinic, Jamaica (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Cortney Davis

Becoming the Patient (QT download) (text)
commentary

Blood Clot (QT download) (text)
commentary

The Body Flute (QT download) (text)
commentary

Duet (QT download) (text)
commentary

Four Masks (QT download) (text)
commentary

How I am Able to Love (QT download) (text)
commentary

How I Imagine It (QT download) (text)
commentary

I Hear the Cries of Women (QT download) (text)
commentary

On the Wards (QT download) (text)
commentary

The Smoke We Make Pictures Of (QT download) (text)
commentary

What the Nurse Likes (QT download) (text)
commentary

W.S. Di Piero

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

Regie Gibson

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) (site)

Introduction (m3u) (site)
Introduction (mp3) (site)
Unclothed (m3u) (site)
Unclothed (mp3) (site)
Mississippi 66 (m3u) (site)
Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (m3u) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)
Warehouse (m3u) (site)
Warehouse (mp3) (site)  
The Moon (m3u) (site)  
The Moon (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)  
Rosita Mae (m3u) (site)  
Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)  
Unclothed (m3u) (site)
Unclothed (mp3) (site)
Mississippi 66 (m3u) (site)
Mississippi 66 (mp3) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (m3u) (site)
In the Year I Loved Your Mother (mp3) (site)
Warehouse (m3u) (site)  
Warehouse (mp3) (site)  
The Moon (m3u) (site)  
The Moon (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)
Rosita Mae (m3u) (site)
Rosita Mae (mp3) (site)

Robert Graves

To Juan at the Summer Solstice (site)

Harper Audio (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 (.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 (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 2 (.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 (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)

Harper Audio 3 (.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)

Galway Kinnell

UC of Berkeley, April 5, 2001 Reading [excerpts] (site)

Timothy Liu

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Hard Evidence

Christopher Merrill

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Brilliant Water [start 28:00]

All Things Considered 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

Stanley Plumly

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me

Bonnie Proudfoot

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)

July 8, 2001:

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

Frank Bidart

Wired for Books Reading 2001 (site)
reading at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival

Diane Di Prima

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

Michael Collier

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

Mark Doty

The Beat Interview (NPR) March 23, 2001 (site)

Lynn Emanuel

Wired for Books Reading 2001 [47:51] (site)
reading at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

No. 12 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp) [audio download] (site)

No. 14 [A Far Rockaway of the Heart] (wmp) [audio 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) [audio download] (site) (off-site text)

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

Oh Heart (wmp) [audio download] (site)

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

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

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

The Beat Interview (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)

Monica Ferrell

Four Poems (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)

Four Poems (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 (site) (off-site text)

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

Tess Gallagher

Wired for Book Interview 1986 (site)

Robert Hass

The Beat Interview (NPR) April 10, 2001 (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]

Turning Points Interview (BBC) September 16, 1998 (site)

his formative years [4:21]
doing English at University, the influence of Irish writing [2:21]

Edward Hirsch

The Beat Interview (NPR) January 9, 2001 (site)

Ted Hughes

A March Calf (text)

Ted Kooser

At the Office Early (text)

Biker (text)

Nicole Krauss (no bio)

Two Poems (site)

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

Two Poems (mp3) (site)

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

Philip Levine

The West Wind (wmp) (text)

The Beat Interview (NPR) February 28, 2000 (site)

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)

W.S. Merwin

The Black Virgin (wmp) (text)

E. Ethelbert Miller

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

Simon J. Ortiz

The Beat Interview (NPR) October 10, 2000 (site)

Marie Ponsot

Decorum: Reflections (wmp) [download] (site)

Drunk and Disorderly, Big Hair (wmp) [download] (site)

Explorers Cry Out, Unheard (wmp) [download] (site)

The First At The Last (wmp) [download] (site)

Inviting Carolyn Kizer (wmp) [download] (site)

I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere (wmp) [download] (site)

Metaphysica (wmp) [download] (site)

Old Jokes Appreciate (wmp) [download] (site)

Pourriture Noble (wmp) [video] [download] (site)

Pourriture Noble (wmp) [audio] [download] (site)

Wearing the Gaze of an Archaic Statue (wmp) [download] (site)

What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up (wmp) [download] (site)

What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up Part II (wmp) [download] (site)

The Beat Interview (NPR) March 6, 2001 (site)

Sonia Sanchez

For Sweet Honey in the Rock (site)

Charles Simic

My Noiseless Entourage (wmp) (text)

Gary Snyder

Wired for Book Interview 1991 (site)

Barry Spacks

Black Star Yearning (text)

Black Star Yearning (text)

From the Skymind Café (m3u) (text)

From the Skymind Café (mp3) (text)

A Grandfather (site)

Maple Tree (text)

Open House (text)

The Placing of a Comma (m3u) (text)

The Placing of a Comma (mp3) (text)

Spacks Street (site)

Valentine (text)

Valentine (text)

Watching the Soaps (text)

What Breathes Us (site) (off-site text)

What’s Her Name (site)

White Water Vision (text)

White Water Vision (text)

Within Another Life (site) (off-site text)

David Watts

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

Chronic Pain Sydrome (aiff download) (text)
commentary

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

July 16th (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Late February (aiff download) (text)
commentary

MS (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Physical Exam (aiff download) (text)
commentary

Restrictive (aiff download) (text)
commentary

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

Elana Wolff

Artifices (m3u) (text)

Artifices (mp3) (text)

Bone & Jay (m3u) (text)

Bone & Jay (mp3) (text)

Jig-Sawyer (m3u) (text)

Jig-Sawyer (mp3) (text)

Scratch (m3u) (text)

Scratch (mp3) (text)

1949 Santa Fe Lounge Car (m3u) (text)

1949 Santa Fe Lounge Car (mp3) (text)

Venus (m3u) (text)

Venus (mp3) (text)

June 25, 2001:

Joy Harjo

Native America Calling Interview (NPR) (site)

June 23, 2001:

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

WBEZ Interview 1961 (NPR Chicago) (site)

Part 1 [start 32:57]
Part 2 [start 33:38]

Gwendolyn Brooks

WBEZ Interview 1961 (NPR Chicago) (site)

Robert Frost

University of Iowa Reading (site)

June 20, 2001:

Yusef Komunyakaa

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

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

June 18, 2001:

Donald Hall

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

Rita Dove

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

Robert Pinsky

Morning Edition Literacy Project (NPR), March 19, 2001 (site)

David Lehman

February 10: The Business (wmp) (text)

June 16, 2001:

Elizabeth Bishop

Filling Station (RA download) (site) (off-site text) [new to download page only]

June 11, 2001:

Stephen Dunn

Ars Poetica and "Did I Miss Anything?" (by Tom Wayman) (site)

Bill Moyers Interview (site)

Online News Hour (PBS) April 26, 2001 (site)
on winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry

June 10, 2001:

Sherman Alexie

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

Amiri Baraka

InWalked Bud (site)

InWalked Bud (mp3) (site)

Steven Cramer

Word Gets Around (wmp) (text)

Diane Di Prima

BayTV Interview (site)

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

Martin Espada

Another Nameless Prostitute Says the Man is Innocent (off-site text) (site)
start audio at 49:14

Circle of Resistance (site)
interview with poet Martin Espada about censorship on NPR, the importance of Puerto Rican independence and the future of poetry

Part 1
Part 2

Allen Ginsberg

singing on CNN (QT) (site)

Lynne McMahon

Sentimental Standards (wmp) (text)

James Merrill

A Downward Look (text)

A Downward Look (video) (text)

Ice Cap (text)

Ice Cap (video) (text)

The Pruned Tree (text)

The Pruned Tree (video) (text)

Alessio and the Zinnias (text)

Alessio and the Zinnias (video) (text)

Tracie Morris

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

Liam Rector

I Get a Feeling (text)

This Summer (wav) (text)

Sherod Santos

Llandudno (wmp) (text)

Patricia Smith

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

Sekou Sundiata

the sound of the memory (site)

the sound of the memory (mp3) (site)

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

Terese Svoboda

Land's Cape (wmp) (text)

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)

Happy Birthday Elvis! (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)

June 6, 2001:

Ted Joans

UC Berkeley Reading, February 2, 2000 (site)

All Things Considered, June 1, 2001 (site)

May 31, 2001:

Ammiel Alcalay

UC San Diego, 2001 Reading (site)

Part 1
Part 2

Maya Angelou

The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)

Amiri Baraka

Jazz Perspectives (site)

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 Poet Rumi

Gwendolyn Brooks

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(Emily & I Are Absolutely Different In The Details Of Our Lives)

Billy Collins

Forgetfulness (site) (off-site text)

I Chop Some Parsley (site) (off-site text)

Nightclub (site) (off-site text)

Nostalgia (site) (off-site text)

On Turning Ten (site) (off-site text)

Toi Derricotte

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

Sandra Gilbert

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

Allen Ginsberg

92nd Street Y Reading, February 28, 1997 (site)

The Roland Collection (mpeg) (site)

Michael Harper

If You Don’t Force It (site)

Edward Hirsch

Anthem (NPR) December 19, 1998 (site)
discusses and reads "Saint Francis and the Sow" by Galway Kinnell

Langston Hughes

New York Times Reading (site)

One Way Ticket (site)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site) (off-site text)
Trumpet Player (site) (off-site text)
Ballad of the Gypsy (site)
Kid Sleepy (site)
Puzzled (site)
Southern Mammy Songs (site)

One Way Ticket (site)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site) (off-site text)

Trumpet Player (site) (off-site text)

Ballad of the Gypsy (site)

Kid Sleepy (site)

Puzzled (site)

Southern Mammy Songs (site)

Maxine Kumin

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

David Lehman

Fresh Air [part 2] (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"

Lyn Lifshin

Geese at midnight (RA download) (text)

Claude McKay

If We Must Die (site) (off-site text)

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (site) (off-site text)

The Tropics In New York (site) (off-site text)

W.S. Merwin

Heights (wmp) (text)

Marilyn Nelson

Dusting (text)

Ruellia Noctiflora (text)

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Sharon Olds

Essay/Reading on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(I Think Emily Dickinson Would Have Been Political Today)

Alicia Ostriker

The Kiss of Judas (text)

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

Robert Pinsky

Jar of Pens (text)

Adrienne Rich

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

Ruth Stone

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

Walt Whitman

America (text) [history of recording]

America (site) (off-site text)