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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 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!	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 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!	A Language for Nature: Preserving the Hawaiian Rainforest by W. S. Merwin
	The California Academy of Sciences San Francisco, CA July 19, 2006 Add to Notebook

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 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!	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 New Day by Philip Levine
	February, 23 1978 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on] by Joseph Brodsky
	Read by Mark Strand 1980 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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 Possum Entering the Argument by Tom Healy "We're talking about when we met, and you say..."
	August 19, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	A Wedding Toast by Richard Wilbur "St. John tells how ..."
	Read by the author January, 2003 Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

Hear it!	A Woman's Delusion by Susan Howe
	Read by the author May 31, 1994 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	About a Field by Idra Novey "After the last house the land extends like a hand..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Adam's Curse by W. B. Yeats "We sat together at one summer's end..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 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!	Advice to Young Poets: Sharon Olds in Conversation by Sharon Olds
	From the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust Download the full podcast. 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!	Against Elegies by Marilyn Hacker "James has cancer. Catherine has cancer..."
	Read by the author March 31, 1992 Alliance Francaise, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Alan Dugan CD by Alan Dugan
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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!	Alive by Naomi Shihab Nye "Dear Abby, wrote someone from Oregon..."
	October 28, 2010 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Alone and Not Alone by Ron Padgett "Out of the water came the one who reached back into the water..."
	October 28, 2010 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY 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!	American Sonnet (35) by Wanda Coleman "boooooooo. spooky ripplings of icy waves. This..."
	Read by the author May 15, 2000 The Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	An Outsider on Poetry [excerpt] by E. M. Forster
	Read by James Wright New York City March 30, 1977 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!	And It Begins Like This by Carl Phillips
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY 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!	And the Trains Go On by Philip Levine
	February, 23 1978 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Animals and Art by Ron Padgett
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Anthony Hecht CD by Anthony Hecht
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Hear it!	Apiary IX by Carol Frost
	Read by the author April 22, 2003 New York City From the Academy Audio Archive 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!	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? 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!	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!	As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter, I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor by James Wright
	March 20, 1964 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme by Gerard Manley Hopkins "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme..."
	Read by Idra Novey May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Assault by Edna St. Vincent Millay "I had forgotten how the frogs must sound..."
	Read by Dorianne Laux February 11, 2009 Raleigh, North Carolina From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	At Dusk, the Catbird by George Witte "Twitched in the forsythia..."
	August 19, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	At North Farm by John Ashbery
	Read by the author November 10, 1987 Boyslston Hall Harvard University Cambridge, MA Add to Notebook

Hear it!	At Pegasus by Terrance Hayes "They are like those crazy women..."
	Read by the author April 20, 2000 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Atlantic City Sunday Morning by Gregory Pardlo "Plow-piled snow shrouded..."
	Read by the author July 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Audre Lorde CD by Audre Lorde
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Hear it!	Autobiography of the Body by Elizabeth Arnold
	Read by the author May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, 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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