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Hear it!	"What Do Women Want?" by Kim Addonizio "I want a red dress...."
	Read by the author August 29, 2007 Oakland, California From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Edge and Fold, sections 15-49 by Paul Hoover
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	La Figlia Che Piange by T. S. Eliot "Stand on the highest pavement of the stair--..."
	Read by the author from Caedmon Add to Notebook

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,..."

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!	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

Hear it!	Blur by Andrew Hudgins "Storms of perfume lift from honeysuckle,..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Bolshevescent by Peter Gizzi "You stand far from the crowd, adjacent to power..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Borges at the Northside Rotary 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!	By Small and Small: Midnight to Four A.M. 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!	Catastrophe Theory II by Mary Jo Bang "The foot goes forward, yes..."
	Read by the author November, 2007 Washington University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Catastrophe Theory III by Mary Jo Bang "Now we sit and play with a tiny toy..."
	Read by the author November, 2007 Washington University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Certain Principles Must Be Observed by Cole Swensen
	Read by the author April 16, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Chorus from Oedipus at Colonos by Anthony Hecht "What is unwisdom but the lusting after..."
	Read by the author January 24, 1991 Pierpont Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Chosen by the Lion by Linda Gregg
	Academy Audio Archive Recorded October 8, 1991 at the French Institute Alliance Francaise Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Clementene by Jane Cooper "I always thought she was white, I thought she was an Indian..."
	Read by the author December 15, 1997 92nd St. Y, Unterberg Poetry Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Cloud Country by Carl Phillips
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Constable's Clouds, For Keats by Stanley Plumly
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Cutthroat Christ by James Fenton
	Read by the author November 29, 1994 The New School From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Day by Ann Lauterbach
	Read by the author April 29, 2008 Marymount Manhattan College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Day Job and Night Job by Andrew Hudgins "After my night job, I sat in class..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Death By Wind by Gerald Stern
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Death Is The Cool Night 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!	Death's Door by Thom Gunn
	1988 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Demolition Derby by Mónica de la Torre "Sonya's so good that all the guys..."
	Read by the author The Academy Offices June 24, 2003 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Descriptions of Heaven and Hell by Mark Jarman "The wave breaks..."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Diamonds 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!	Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night,..."
	Read by the author from Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Don't Kill Yourself by Paul Hoover
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Dream Song 1 by John Berryman "Huffy Henry hid the day,..."
	Read by the author October 31, 1963 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Dreaming About My Father by Ed Ochester
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Driver's Song by Paul Hoover
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Duende by Tracy K. Smith "The earth is dry and they live wanting..."
	from From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

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!	Elvis Be My Psychopomp 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!	Embodies by Jorie Graham "Deep autumn; the mistake occurs, the plum tree blossoms, twelve..."
	Read by the author April 3, 2008 The New Museum, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Emptying Town by Nick Flynn
	Read by the author March 3, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta, GA From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Endings by Mona Van Duyn "Setting the V.C.R. when we go to bed..."
	Read by the author May 21, 1991 New York Historical Society From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Explicit Version Number Required 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!	Fairy Tale by Ron Padgett "The little elf is dressed in a floppy cap..."
	Read by the author January 8, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy of American Poets Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Father Outside by Nick Flynn "A black river flows down the center..."
	Read by the author March 3, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Father's Day by James Tate "My daughter has lived overseas for a number..."
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Fiat Lux by Lynda Hull "Static from the radio stippled grey as anesthesia dream..."
	Read by the author October 27, 1992 French Institute From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	First Things at the Last Minute by Robert Hass
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	First Things First by W. H. Auden
	Read by the author First Things First (Audio Only) Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Fit Audience 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!	Fixed by Christopher Stackhouse
	Read by the author April 21, 2008 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	For the Sake of Retrieval by Linda Bierds
	Read by the author March 23, 1993 Alliance Francaise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	For the Stranger by Carolyn Forché
	Read by the author December 07, 1978 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Fred Astaire by Ed Ochester
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Friday's Child by W. H. Auden
	Read by the author March 12, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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

Hear it!	From Happily by Lyn Hejinian "The manner in which we are present at this time to and fro appears, we come to point of view before us..."
	Read by the author May 15, 2001 Academy of American Poets Award Ceremony From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	from Helen in Egypt: Pallinode, Books I & III by H. D.
	Read by the author from Watershed Records Add to Notebook

Hear it!	from Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden] by Major Jackson
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	from The Descent of Alette ["A car" "awash with blood"] by Alice Notley
	Read by the author October 29, 2007 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	from The End of the Alphabet [page 3] by Claudia Rankine
	Read by the author July 20, 2001 Philosophy Hall Lounge Columbia University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	from The Rwanda Poems by Kamau Brathwaite
	From the Academy Audio Archive Recorded Oct. 6, 1994 New School University Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	From the Long Sad Party by Mark Strand "Someone was saying..."
	Read by the author May 09, 1978 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Gold by Donald Hall "Pale gold of the walls, gold..."
	Read by the author Academy Audio Archive 1970 Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Green Sees Things in Waves by August Kleinzahler "Green first thing each day sees waves—..."
	Read by the author May 5, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Groovin' Low by A. B. Spellman
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Ground Swell by Mark Jarman "Is nothing real but when I was fifteen,..."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Hackett Avenue by John Koethe "I used to like connections:..."
	Read by the author April 14, 2003 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) by Alice Notley
	Read by the author October 29, 2007 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Her Kind by Anne Sexton "I have gone out, a possessed witch,..."
	Read by the author from Anne Sexton Reads Caedmon Add to Notebook

Hear it!	homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton "these hips are big hips...."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Home to Roost by Kay Ryan
	Read by the author October 6, 2006 Kaye Playhouse, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Homecoming 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!	How We Did It by Muriel Rukeyser
	Read by the author December 7, 1976 From the Academy Audio Archive Listen to this recording in the latest Poetcast Add to Notebook

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!	I'm A Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady "Some folks will tell you the blues is a woman,..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	I'm Over the Moon by Brenda Shaughnessy "I don't like what the moon is supposed to do..."
	Read by the author October 19, 2007 The New School, Tishman Auditorium From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	If a Wilderness by Carl Phillips "Then spring came..."
	Read by the author September 18th, 2007 East Harwich, Massachusetts From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	If See No End In Is 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!	In Memoriam Mae Noblitt by A. R. Ammons "This is just a place: / we go around, distanced,..."
	Read by the author October 28th, 1996 92nd St. Y From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	In Paris With You by James Fenton
	Read by the author November 29, 1994 The New School From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Influenza 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!	Irritable Mystic by Nathaniel Mackey " His they their..."
	November 15, 2006 Academy of American Poets Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	It Was Raining In Delft by Peter Gizzi "A cornerstone. Marble pilings. Curbstones and brick...."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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Jeffers
by Mark Jarman
"To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rollin