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Hear it!	My Father's Leaving by Ira Sadoff "When I came back, he was gone..."
	Audio recorded by Matt O'Donnell Courtesy of From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Oklahoma City: The Aftermath by Ira Sadoff "Sometimes I'm so lachrymose I forget I was there..."
	Audio recorded by Matt O'Donnell Courtesy of From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Once I Could Say by Ira Sadoff "Once I could say..."
	Audio recorded by Matt O'Donnell Courtesy of From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Anactoria Poem by Sappho "Some say thronging cavalry, some say foot soldiers,..."
	Read by Jim Powell May 16, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] by Sappho
	Read by Jim Powell May 16, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[In my eyes he matches the gods] by Sappho "In my eyes he matches the gods, that man who..."
	Read by Jim Powell May 16, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	way [excerpts] by Leslie Scalapino
	Donnell Library New York City March 13, 1990 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Ars Poetica by Philip Schultz
	Read by the author April 3, 2002 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Letters to a Young Poet, 1987 by Lisa Sewell "Out of our arguments with ourselves..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Middlemarch, 2009 by Lisa Sewell "Not afterwards which hadn't arrived..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Her Kind by Anne Sexton "I have gone out, a possessed witch,..."
	Read by the author from Anne Sexton Reads Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) by William Shakespeare "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea..."
	Read by Jorie Graham March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy "I don't like what the moon is supposed to do..."
	Read by the author October 19, 2007 The New School, Tishman Auditorium From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	What [Friends ask us why] by Ron Silliman
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	What [The flower sermon] by Ron Silliman "The flower sermon..."
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Albany by Ron Silliman "If the function of writing is to..."
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Quindecagon by Ron Silliman
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Charles Simic CD by Charles Simic
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Hear it!	Riddle by Charles Simic
	Read by the author May 03, 1977 Donnell Library Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Round by Tom Sleigh "Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid..."
	Read by the author April 19, 2007 Regina Peruggi Room, Marymount Manhattan College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	every little meth by Abraham Smith "runt crouched in..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	we both split by Abraham Smith "like summer melon..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	whim man mammon by Abraham Smith "secret soil coital..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Evasive Action by Charlie Smith "the clip ped possessive moment, the barber on his porch..."
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Los Dos Rancheros by Charlie Smith
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Real Time by Charlie Smith
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Duende by Tracy K. Smith "The earth is dry and they live wanting..."
	from From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	April Inventory by W. D. Snodgrass "The green catalpa tree has turned..."
	Read by the author March 18, 1997 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	After Vallejo by A. B. Spellman "i will die in havana in a hurricane..."
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Groovin' Low by A. B. Spellman
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	When Black People Are by A. B. Spellman
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Fixed by Christopher Stackhouse
	Read by the author April 21, 2008 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	William Stafford CD by William Stafford
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Hear it!	With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach by William Stafford "We would climb the highest dune,..."
	Read by the author April 18, 1974 Hunter College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] by Gertrude Stein "A light in the moon the only light is on Sunday...."
	Read by Lyn Hejinian November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tender Buttons [Apple] by Gertrude Stein "Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam......"
	Read by Ann Lauterbach May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Glass of Beer by James Stephens "The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Counting by Gerald Stern
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Death By Wind by Gerald Stern
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sylvia by Gerald Stern
	1992 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens "The houses are haunted..."
	Read by Ann Lauterbach May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Idea of Order at Key West by Wallace Stevens "She sang beyond the genius of the sea...."
	Read by the author from Wallace Stevens Reads Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Language by Susan Stewart
	October 28, 2010 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Lost Colony by Susan Stewart
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	From the Long Sad Party by Mark Strand "Someone was saying..."
	Read by the author May 09, 1978 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Mark Strand CD by Mark Strand
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Hear it!	How to Uproot a Tree by Jennifer K. Sweeney "Stupidity helps..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	In Flight by Jennifer K. Sweeney "The Himalayan legend says..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Anamorphosis by Cole Swensen
	Read by the author April 16, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Certain Principles Must Be Observed by Cole Swensen
	Read by the author April 16, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Orangeries by Cole Swensen
	Read by the author April 16, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	May Swenson CD by May Swenson
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Hear it!	That the Soul May Wax Plump by May Swenson "My dumpy little mother on the undertaker's slab..."
	Read by the author October 28, 1985 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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