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Hear it!	The Junior High School Band Concert by David Wagoner "When our semi-conductor..."
	Read by the author March 07, 1995 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Lesson for This Sunday by Derek Walcott "The growing idleness of summer grass..."
	Read by the author October 15, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Derek Walcott CD by Derek Walcott
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Hear it!	Pieces of an Hour [excerpt] by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Four Noble Truths by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Lady Tactics by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author May 23, 2009 Saint Peter's Church, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Peon, May I Speak Thus? by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Stereo by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Robert Penn Warren CD by Robert Penn Warren
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Hear it!	The Nature of a Mirror by Robert Penn Warren
	Read by the author February 08, 1977 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Tide Pickers by Rosanna Warren
	Read by the author April 26, 1988 Donnell Library Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Lamentations #1 by Afaa M. Weaver
	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Mt. Zion Baptist by Afaa M. Weaver
	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	My Father's Geography by Afaa M. Weaver "I was parading the Côte d'Azur,..."
	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Starlings by Afaa M. Weaver
	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Theme For Intermediate Chinese by Afaa M. Weaver
	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Meeting Again, After Heine by Susan Wheeler "The moon rose like a blooming flower..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Roanoke and Wampumpeag by Susan Wheeler "Child, entering Ye Olde Trading Post, takes the pegs upon the walls..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song For the Spirit of Natalie Going by Susan Wheeler "Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Green Stamp Book by Susan Wheeler "Child in the thick of yearning. Doll carted and pushed..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!

America
by Walt Whitman
"Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,..."

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This is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what some believe to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from the poem "America."

For more information on this controversial recording, see Ed Folsom's "The Whitman Recording," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, No. 9, p. 214-16, and Allen Koenigsberg's "Walt Whitman (1819-1892) Speaks?" Antique Phonograph Monthly No. 87, p. 9-11.

Reproduced courtesy of The Walt Whitman Archive, ed. Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price (www.whitmanarchive.org).

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Hear it!	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman "Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face..."
	Read by Lucille Clifton Sections 3-10 May 26, 1992 Cathedral of St. John the Divine From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song of Myself, III by Walt Whitman "I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end..."
	Read by Lucille Clifton May 26, 1992 Cathedral of St. John the Divine From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Richard Wilbur CD by Richard Wilbur
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Hear it!	The Prisoner of Zenda by Richard Wilbur "At the end a..."
	Read by the author December 07, 1989 Pierpont Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Covenant by C. K. Williams
	Read by the author November 17, 1992 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Love Song by William Carlos Williams "What have I to say to you..."
	Read by Ron Silliman July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To Elsie by William Carlos Williams "The pure products of America..."
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Hear it!	Human Form by David Wojahn
	Read by the author March 23, 1993 Alliance Francaise, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Photo of My Father in a Snowbound Train by David Wojahn
	Read by the author March 23, 1993 Alliance Francaise, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tribute and Ash by David Wojahn
	Read by the author March 23, 1993 Alliance Francaise, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth "Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind..."
	Read by Susan Stewart November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tours by C. D. Wright "A girl on the stairs listens to her father..."
	Read by the author March 2, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Charles Wright & Adrienne Rich CD by Charles Wright
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Hear it!	Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening by Charles Wright
	Read by the author May 06, 1997 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio by James Wright "In the Shreve High football stadium,..."
	Read by the author March 20, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	James Wright CD by James Wright
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Hear it!	Living by the Red River by James Wright
	Read by the author New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
	Read by the author March 20, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Transcript: James Wright on the Poetic Prose of H. L. Mencken, Mark Twain, E. M. Forster, and Leo Tolstoy by James Wright
	Read by the author New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

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