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Hear it! Hear it! The Junior High School Band Concert
by David Wagoner
"When our semi-conductor..."
David Wagoner Read by the author
March 07, 1995
New School University
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Hear it! Hear it! A Lesson for This Sunday
by Derek Walcott
"The growing idleness of summer grass..."
Derek Walcott Read by the author
October 15, 1964
Guggenhiem Museum
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Hear it! Hear it! The Nature of a Mirror
by Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren Read by the author
February 08, 1977
Guggenhiem Museum
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Hear it! Hear it! Tide Pickers
by Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren Read by the author
April 26, 1988
Donnell Library Center
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Hear it! Hear it! Lamentations #1
by Afaa M. Weaver
Afaa M. Weaver Read by the author
March 19, 2008
The Academy Offices
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Hear it! Hear it! Mt. Zion Baptist
by Afaa M. Weaver
Afaa M. Weaver Read by the author
March 19, 2008
The Academy Offices
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Hear it! Hear it! My Father's Geography
by Afaa M. Weaver
"I was parading the Côte d'Azur,..."
Afaa M. Weaver Read by the author
March 19, 2008
The Academy Offices
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Hear it! Hear it! The Starlings
by Afaa M. Weaver
Afaa M. Weaver Read by the author
March 19, 2008
The Academy Offices
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Hear it! Hear it! Theme For Intermediate Chinese
by Afaa M. Weaver
Afaa M. Weaver Read by the author
March 19, 2008
The Academy Offices
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Hear it! Hear it! America
by Walt Whitman
"Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,..."
Walt Whitman Read by the author
This is a 36-second wax cylinder recording of what is thought to be Whitman's voice reading four lines from the poem "America." For more information on this recording, see Ed Folsom, "The Whitman Recording," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 9 (Spring 1992), 214-16.

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

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Hear it! Hear it! The Prisoner of Zenda
by Richard Wilbur
"At the end a..."
Richard Wilbur Read by the author
December 07, 1989
Pierpont Morgan Library
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Hear it! Hear it! The Covenant
by C. K. Williams
C. K. Williams Read by the author
November 17, 1992
French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise
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Hear it! Hear it! To Elsie
by William Carlos Williams
"The pure products of America..."
William Carlos Williams Read by the author

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Hear it! Hear it! Human Form
by David Wojahn
Read by the author
March 23, 1993
Alliance Francaise, New York City
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Hear it! 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
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Hear it! Hear it! Tribute and Ash
by David Wojahn
Read by the author
March 23, 1993
Alliance Francaise, New York City
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Hear it! Hear it! Tours
by C. D. Wright
"A girl on the stairs listens to her father..."
C. D. Wright Read by the author
March 2, 2007
AWP Conference, Atlanta
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Hear it! Hear it! Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening
by Charles Wright
Charles Wright Read by the author
May 06, 1997
New School University
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Hear it! Hear it! Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright
"In the Shreve High football stadium,..."
James Wright Read by the author
March 20, 1964
Guggenhiem Museum
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Hear it! Hear it! Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota
by James Wright
James Wright Read by the author
March 20, 1964
Guggenhiem Museum
From the Academy Audio Archive

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