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Hear it!	Telling the Bees by Deborah Digges "It fell to me to tell the bees..."
	Read by the author April 28, 2004 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Ten Maps of Sardonic Wit by Christian Bök
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tent by Ann Lauterbach
	Read by the author May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Testing Gardening by Marie Ponsot
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Text Message by Oni Buchanan "oni, u rancorous scam, u r no rare ace...."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Thank Gerard by Marie Ponsot
	Read by the author April 21, 2008 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Thank You For Saying Thank You 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!	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

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!	The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde] by Carolyn Forché "In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde..."
	October 25, 1995 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass "They are walking in the woods along the coast..."
	1988 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop "This is the time of year..."
	Read by the author November 29, 1977 Guggenheim Museum from the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Art of Translation by Adrienne Rich
	Read by the author May 06, 1997 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Bearhug by Nick Laird
	Read by the author May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Beautiful Changes by John Ashbery
	Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL 2003 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Believed-In by James McMichael
	Read by the author September 1, 2007 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Bell Zygmunt by Jane Hirshfield
	Read by the author September 22, 2008 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Black Riviera by Mark Jarman "There they are again. It's after dark...."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Black Unicorn by Audre Lorde
	March 22, 1977 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Blade of Nostalgia by Chase Twichell "When fed into the crude, imaginary..."
	Read by the author From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Blue by David Baker "heron is gray, not blue, but great enough..."
	Read by the author March 2, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta, GA From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Burning of Paper Instead of Children by Adrienne Rich
	Read by Sharon Olds March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Center of Attention by Daniel Hoffman "As grit swirls in the wind the word spreads...."
	Read by the author October 27, 1980 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Change by Tony Hoagland "The season turned like the page of a glossy fashion magazine..."
	Read by Nick Flynn February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Cossacks by Linda Pastan "For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming...."
	Read by the author September 30, 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	The Cows At Night by Hayden Carruth "The moon was like a full cup tonight..."
	Read by the author May 9, 1989 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Day Duke Raised: May 24th, 1974 by Quincy Troupe "that day began with a shower..."
	Academy Audio Archive Recorded April 24, 1990 at the Donnell Library Center Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Death of Ignatz by Monica Youn "Fallow lies Ignatz..."
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Descent by Fanny Howe
	Read by the author January 1, 2009 Vineyard Haven, MA From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Dragonfly by Louise Bogan
	Read by the author November 12, 1968 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Edges of Time by Kay Ryan
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Exorcist of Notre Dame 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!	The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity by Mary Jo Bang
	Read by the author November, 2007 Washington University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Face Without Makeup by Victor Hernández Cruz
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Feast by David Baker "The moon tonight is..."
	Read by the author March 2, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta, GA From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Ferryer by Sharon Olds "Three years after my father's death..."
	Read by the author May 05, 1993 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Flash Reverses Time by A. Van Jordan
	Read by the author February 2, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart by Jack Gilbert
	Read by the author April 12, 2005 The New School, Wollman Hall, New York From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Forms of Love by George Oppen "Parked in the fields..."
	Read by the author April 9, 1964 Guggenheim Museum, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Future by Lyn Hejinian
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Girl I Call Alma by Linda Gregg "The girl I call Alma who is so white..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Grandsire Bells by Linda Bierds
	Read by the author March 23, 1993 Alliance Francaise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Greek Ships 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!	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!	The Heart by Robert Creeley
	Read by the author July 17, 2001 Columbia University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Hive by Ellen Bryant Voigt
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Hour and What Is Dead by Li-Young Lee "Tonight my brother, in heavy boots, is walking..."
	Read by the author From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	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!	The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir by Richard Hugo
	Read by the author March 4, 1969 The Guggenheim Museum, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Lady That Loved a Swine by Anonymous "There was a lady loved a swine..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree..."
	Read by the author from Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Life of Trees by Dorianne Laux
	Read by the author February 11, 2009 Raleigh, North Carolina From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	the lost women by Lucille Clifton "i need to know their names..."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Lovers of the Poor by Gwendolyn Brooks "arrive. The Ladies from the Ladies' Betterment..."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Map by Larry Levis
	1978 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Mark by Louise Bogan
	1968 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The More Loving One by W. H. Auden "Looking up at the stars, I know quite well..."
	Read by Nick Laird May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Nailhead by David Ignatow
	Academy Audio Archive Recorded April 9, 1964 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes "I've known rivers..."
	Read by the author from The Voice of Langston Hughes Folkways Records Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Niagara River by Kay Ryan "As though..."
	Read by the author October 6, 2006 Kaye Playhouse, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Nonconformist's Memorial by Susan Howe
	Read by the author May 31, 1994 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Old Man at the Wheel by Frank Bidart
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The One-Strand River by Richard Kenney
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Park by August Kleinzahler
	Read by the author May 5, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archiv Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Part of the Bee's Body Embedded in the Flesh by Carol Frost "The bee-boy, merops apiaster, on sultry thundery days..."
	Read by the author April 22, 2003 New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Plural of Jack-in-the-Box by John Ashbery "How quiet the diversion stands..."
	Read by the author November 9, 1978 Science Center Harvard University Cambridge, MA Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Portrait by Stanley Kunitz "My mother never forgave my father..."
	Read by the author December 12, 1991 French Institue Alliance Française From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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 Public Garden by Robert Lowell
	Read by the author October 31, 1963 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Pulley by George Herbert "When God at first made man,  ..."
	Read by Carl Phillips September 18th, 2007 East Harwich, Massachusetts From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Question answerd by William Blake "What is it men in women do require..."
	Read by Robert Pinsky November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary..."
	Read by Anne Waldman October 1, 2012 New York, NY Produced by Ambrose Bye Fast Speaking Music Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Reader by Richard Wilbur "She is going back these days..."
	Read by the author January, 2003 Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Red Poppy by Louise Glück "The great thing..."
	Read by the author March 17, 1992 French Institute Alliance Francaise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood..."
	Read by the author from Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Self in Poetry: A GNAT (Grossly Non-Academic Talk) with a Weaving Metaphor by Rachel Zucker
	Read by the author April 17, 2011 New York, NY Recorded by the author Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Smokehouse by Yusef Komunyakaa
	1993 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Soul selects her own Society (303) by Emily Dickinson "The Soul selects her own Society—..."
	Read by Galway Kinnell October 21, 2007 Marymount Manhattan College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude by Rita Dove
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY 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!	The Study of Happiness by Kenneth Koch
	November 18, 1969 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Supple Deer by Jane Hirshfield
	Read by the author September 22, 2008 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Supremes by Mark Jarman "In Ball's Market after surfing till noon,..."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Sweetwater Caverns by Kimiko Hahn
	Read by the author June 26, 2007 Bryant Park Reading Series From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Transparent Man by Anthony Hecht "I'm mighty glad to see you, Mrs. Curtis,..."
	Read by the author January 24, 1991 Pierpont Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Weight by Linda Gregg "Two horses were put together in the same paddock..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Widening Sky by Edward Hirsch "I am so small walking on the beach..."
	Read by the author April 13, 2003 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Wild Iris by Louise Glück "At the end of my suffering..."
	Read by the author March 17, 1992 French Institute Alliance Francaise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Writer by Richard Wilbur "In her room at the prow of the house..."
	Read by the author January, 2003 Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Year of the Kiln Portraits by Les Murray
	Read by the author May 09, 1996 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) by Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna "The yellow bittern that never broke out..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 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!	Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethewey "You can get there from here, though..."
	Read by the author March 3, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	This Bridge, Like Poetry, is Vertigo by Marie Ponsot
	Read by the author October 29, 2010 Tishman Auditorium, The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	This City by Liam Rector "This apartment with no furniture..."
	Read by the author December 10, 1985 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tide of Voices: Why Poetry Matters Now by Mark Doty
	John Hersey Memorial Lecture Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL January, 2008 Add to Notebook

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!	Title It Shotgun Wound by Gregory Pardlo "on the bar of the Cedar Tavern: the shot..."
	Read by the author Juliy 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To a Butterfly by James Merrill
	1992 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	To a Maple by Wayne Koestenbaum "Green leaves outside my window..."
	October 30, 2010 Wollman Hall, The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To Autumn by John Keats "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,..."
	Read by Stanley Plumly February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To Elsie by William Carlos Williams "The pure products of America..."
	Read by the author Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To Go by Heather McHugh
	April 21, 1992 French Institue Alliance Française From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	To Her Body, Against Time by Robert Kelly "Long over, what's on the tree..."
	Read by the author January 21, 2008 Red Hook, New York From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	To Juan at the Winter Solstice by Robert Graves
	Read by the author December 03, 1966 Hunter College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	To the Dead by Frank Bidart
	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!	To the Reader by Jena Osman "There’s a voice in the room and what are you noticing..."
	Read by the author June 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Today Mr. Rufo by Oni Buchanan "Today Mr. Rufo died. During a game of bocce ball,..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tornado by Dorothea Lasky "I rember you as bent down like a whirlpool..."
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY 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!	Transcript: C. K. Williams and Robert Fagles by Robert Fagles
	Read by the author Episode 30: A Tribute to Robert Fagles December 6, 2007 The Poets.org Poetcast Add to Notebook

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

Hear it!	Transcript: Mary Jo Bang in Conversation by Mary Jo Bang
	Read by the author November, 2007 Washington University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Transcript: Q&A on Ars Poetica (cocoons) by Dana Levin
	from From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Transcript: Robert Frost's Contrarieties by Stanley Burnshaw
	Read by the author October 9, 1990 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Transcript: Tony Hoagland in Conversation by Tony Hoagland
	Read by the author September 28, 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Transfiguration by Mark Jarman "They were talking to him about resurrection, about law,..."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tranter in America by August Kleinzahler
	Read by the author May 5, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Trapeze by Deborah Digges "See how the first dark takes the city in its arms..."
	Read by the author April 28, 2004 Poets House 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!	Triggerfish by Jeffrey Yang
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Turbulence by Richard Kenney
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Two Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance by John Cage
	Read by Susan Howe March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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