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Hear it!	A Defense of Poetry by Charles Bernstein
	Read by the author July 20, 2001 Philosophy Hall Lounge, Columbia University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Hermit Thrush by Amy Clampitt "Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day,..."
	Read by the author December 01, 1987 Pierpont Morgan Library 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!	A Light Says Why by Karen Volkman "A light says why. From all the poor prying. Again we attain a more..."
	Read by the author May 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Litany by Gregory Orr
	Read by the author October 13, 2006 Academy of American Poets Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Man Like You, But Older by David Kirby
	Read by the author February 2, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Perfume by John Koethe "There were mice, and even..."
	Read by the author April 14, 2003 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters by June Jordan
	Read by the author Academy Audio Archive 1992 Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Pot of Tea by Richard Kenney "Loose leaves in a metal ball..."
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Season by Joseph Brodsky
	Read by the author December 18, 1980 Donnell Library Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Slice of Wedding Cake by Robert Graves
	December 03, 1966 Hunter College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Song for Many Movements by Audre Lorde
	1977 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg "What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked..."
	Read by the author from Rhino/Word-Beat Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Advice From the Geese by Robert Bly
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell "For I can snore like a bullhorn..."
	Read by the author March 18, 1980 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	Afternoon Memory by Gary Soto "Sometimes I'll look in the refrigerator..."
	April 7, 1997 92nd St. Y From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	All Their Stanzas Look Alike by Thomas Sayers Ellis "All their fences..."
	Read by the author August 9, 2006 Bryant Park, 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 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!	An American in Hollywood by Frank Bidart
	Read by the author April 10, 2008 Affinia Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	An Old-Fashioned Song by John Hollander "No more walks in the wood:..."
	Read by the author January 14, 1992 Pierpont Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	And the City Stood in its Brightness by Czeslaw Milosz
	Read by the author December 17, 1974 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin "Six monarch butterfly cocoons..."
	from From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Artifact by Claudia Emerson
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

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