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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!	Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] by Gertrude Stein "A light in the moon the only light is on Sunday...."
	Read by Lyn Hejinian November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

Hear it!	Howl, Part III and Footnote to Howl by Allen Ginsberg "Carl Solomon! I'm with you in Rockland..."
	Read by the author August 9, 1975 From the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives, made available for non-commercial use under the Creative Commons License. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Howl, Parts I & II by Allen Ginsberg "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked..."
	Read by the author August 9, 1975 From the Naropa Poetics Audio Archives, made available for non-commercial use under the Creative Commons License. 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!	Letter to Brooks [Spring Garden] by Major Jackson "When you have forgotten (to bring into..."
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] by Jenny Boully "But the rocking chair appears to be missing a little something..."
	Read by the author July 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [If she lays out two spoons] by Jenny Boully "If she lays out two spoons (two real spoons) and two forks (two real forks)..."
	Read by the author July 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [The Wendy girl] by Jenny Boully "The Wendy girl will live longer than you; the Never bird will live longer than you..."
	Read by the author July 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Pieces of an Hour [excerpt] by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Tender Buttons [Apple] by Gertrude Stein "Apple plum, carpet steak, seed clam......"
	Read by Ann Lauterbach May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Come, give us your hand, duke] by Mark Twain
	Read by James Wright New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [One morning about daybreak] by Mark Twain
	Read by James Wright New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	The Book of a Thousand Eyes [To achieve reality] by Lyn Hejinian "To achieve reality..."
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

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

Hear it!	The Feeling of the World As a Bounded Whale Is the Mystical [The child affixes] by Darcie Dennigan "The child affixes one of her little pictures to my refrigerator...."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

Hear it!	Two ramages for old masters [Silent in the moonlight] 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!	way [excerpts] by Leslie Scalapino
	Donnell Library New York City March 13, 1990 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	What [Friends ask us why] by Ron Silliman
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	What [The flower sermon] by Ron Silliman "The flower sermon..."
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive 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 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

Hear it!	Backchat: Albert Goldbarth in Conversation by Albert Goldbarth
	From the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust Download the full podcast. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Backchat: Marie Howe in Conversation by Marie Howe
	From the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Backchat: Philip Levine in Conversation by Philip Levine
	From the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust Download the full podcast. Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Bardo by Dana Levin
	Read by the author December 21, 2008 Santa Fe, New Mexico From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	basin of hills... by Rusty Morrison
	Read by the author November 7, 2008 The New School, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Before by Khaled Mattawa "Somewhere between faith and grace..."
	October 29, 2010 Tishman Auditorium, The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Behind the Curtains: Close-Reading Ruth Stone by Dorianne Laux
	From the 2010 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Recorded by The Poetry Trust Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Birthday by Henri Cole
	Read by the author April 17, 2007 Housing Works Bookstore Café From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Blowjob (Vulgar Slang) by Sharon Olds
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	Body and Soul by Charles Wright "The world's body is not our body..."
	February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Body and Soul II by Charles Wright "The structure of landscape is infinitesimal,..."
	February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. 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!	Brian, Age 7 by Mark Doty
	Read by the author September 30, 2006 Stanhope, New Jersey 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!	Caesarion by C. P. Cavafy "In part to verify a date..."
	Read by Avi Sharon Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Carolyn Forché CD by Carolyn Forché
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Hear it!	Carolyn Kizer & David Wagoner CD by Carolyn Kizer
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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!	Charles Simic CD by Charles Simic
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Hear it!	Charles Wright & Adrienne Rich CD by Charles Wright
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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 "I am the one chosen by the lion at sundown..."
	Academy Audio Archive Recorded October 8, 1991 at the French Institute Alliance Francaise Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Cleis by Marilyn Hacker
	Read by the author March 31, 1992 Alliance Francaise, New York City 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!	Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment [excerpt] by Anne Waldman
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY 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!	Copyright by Gregory Pardlo "Of course I know the story of the scorpion..."
	Read by the author Juliy 1, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Counting by Gerald Stern
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman "Flood-tide below me! I watch you face to face..."
	Read by Lucille Clifton Sections 3-10 May 26, 1992 Cathedral of St. John the Divine 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!	Czeslaw Milosz CD by Czeslaw Milosz
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Hear it!	Daffy Duck In Hollywood by John Ashbery "Something strange is creeping across me...."
	Read by the author May 16, 1976 Sanders Theatre Cambridge, MA 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!	Daybreak by Daniel Halpern
	Read by Robert Hass May 6, 2010 New York University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Dear Claudia: A Letter in Response by Tony Hoagland
	Read by Claudia Rankine February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Dear Lonely Animal, by Oni Buchanan "I'm writing to you from the loneliest, most..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City 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!	Deep Lane by Mark Doty
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Definition of Stranger by Idra Novey
	Read by the author May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg 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!	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!	Derek Walcott CD by Derek Walcott
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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!	Discrete Series by George Oppen
	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!	Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens "The houses are haunted..."
	Read by Ann Lauterbach May 30, 2009 The Strand Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich "First having read the book of myths,..."
	Read by Anne Waldman May 23, 2009 Saint Peter's Church, 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!	Donald Hall CD by Donald Hall
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Hear it!	Donald Justice CD by Donald Justice
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Hear it!	Door in the Mountain by Jean Valentine
	Read by the author Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold "The sea is calm tonight,..."
	Read by David Kirby February 2, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Dramatic Monologue Against the Self by Ken Chen "Hello, my name is Ken Chen..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY 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!	Dream Song 4 by John Berryman "Filling her compact & delicious body..."
	October 31, 1963 Guggenheim 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!	During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy "They sing their dearest songs..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Each Moment a White Bull by Jane Hirshfield
	Read by the author September 22, 2008 From the Academy Audio Archive 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!	Earth Took of Earth by Anonymous "Earth took of earth earth with ill..."
	Read by Galway Kinnell March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Egon Schiele's Wife by Carol Frost
	Read by the author April 22, 2003 New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Electron Face by Matt Hart "It's true that two hummingbirds singing in the exact same pitch..."
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	Embers by Henri Cole
	Read by the author April 17, 2007 Housing Works Bookstore Café 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!	Evasive Action by Charlie Smith "the clip ped possessive moment, the barber on his porch..."
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Ever Read a Book Called Awe by Dorothea Lasky "Ever Read a Book Called Awe..."
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	1966 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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Hear it!	From by A. Van Jordan " from (→) prep. 1. Starting at (a particular place or time): As in, John was..."
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Hear it!	From an Italian Postcard Factory by Margaret Atwood
	1978 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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Hear it!	homage to my hips by Lucille Clifton "these hips are big hips...."
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Hear it!	I am Raftery the Poet by Anthony Raftery "I am Raftery the oet..."
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Hear it!	In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte "i knew you before you had a mother..."
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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

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Hear it!	Jeffers by Mark Jarman "To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rolling a stone..."
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	Read by the author November 29, 1994 The New School From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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Hear it!	Just Before by Jorie Graham "At some point in the day, as such, there was a pool. Of..."
	Read by the author April 3, 2008 The New Museum, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author April 16, 1964 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author March 9, 1978 Donnell Library Center, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive. Add to Notebook

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Hear it!	Lay Back the Darkness by Edward Hirsch "My father in the night shuffling from room to room..."
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Hear it!	Letters to a Young Poet, 1987 by Lisa Sewell "Out of our arguments with ourselves..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Leviathan by George Oppen "Truth also is the pursuit of it..."
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Hear it!	Liner Notes to an Imaginary Playlist by Terrance Hayes "1. The Song is Called Wind Solo, by the Phelonious Monks..."
	August 19, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Little Exercise by Elizabeth Bishop "Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily..."
	Read by Richard Wilbur January, 1993 Tribute to Elizabeth Bishop Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Living on Someone Else's Money by Tom Healy "What it means is flowers always on the table..."
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Hear it!	Love Calls Us to the Things of This World by Richard Wilbur "The eyes open to cry of pulleys..."
	Read by the author January, 1993 Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Love in Boots by John Ashbery "Our first assignment was to make a square..."
	1994 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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Hear it!	Lucky by Tony Hoagland "If you are lucky in this life,..."
	Read by the author September 28, 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	LXI by César Vallejo "Tonight I get down from my horse..."
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Hear it!	Lying by Richard Wilbur "To claim at a dead party to have spotted a grackle..."
	Read by the author January, 2003 Key West Literary Seminar Key West, FL Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota by James Wright
	Read by the author March 20, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine
	Read by the author October 08, 1991 French Institue Alliance Française From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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	1974 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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Hear it!	Making a Fist by Naomi Shihab Nye "For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,..."
	Read by the author March 13, 1991 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them by Naomi Shihab Nye "Where do you keep all these people?..."
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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Hear it!	Maroon Canoe by Oni Buchanan "o canoe, maroon canoe..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author April 22, 2003 New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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Hear it!	Me and the Otters by Dorothea Lasky "Love makes you feel alive..."
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Meeting Again, After Heine by Susan Wheeler "The moon rose like a blooming flower..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author June 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author March 3, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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	Read by the author March 19, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	my dream about being white by Lucille Clifton "hey music and me only white..."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	My Father and My Mother Decide My Future, and How Could We Forget Wang Wei? by Ken Chen "The suitcase open on the bed..."
	July 15, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	My Father's Geography by Afaa M. Weaver "I was parading the Côte d'Azur,..."
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Hear it!	My Father's Leaving by Ira Sadoff "When I came back, he was gone..."
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Hear it!	My Father's Love Letters by Yusef Komunyakaa "On Fridays he'd open a can of Jax..."
	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!	My Friends by W. S. Merwin "My friends without shields walk on the target..."
	Read by the author October 27, 1966 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	My Galley Charged with Forgetfulness by Thomas Wyatt "My galley charged with forgetfulness..."
	Read by Peter Sacks March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	My Last Duchess by Robert Browning "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,..."
	Read by Richard Howard October 3, 1994 The Morgan Library, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan "My mother would be a falconress,..."
	1969 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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	1992 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke "The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy..."
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Hear it!	My Philosophy of Life by John Ashbery "Just when I thought there wasn't room enough..."
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Hear it!	Nearing Dawn by Jorie Graham "Sunbreak. The sky opens its magazine. If you look hard..."
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	October, 6 1994 The New School From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Next Day by Randall Jarrell "Moving from Cheer to Joy, from Joy to All,..."
	Read by the author October 29, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Nikolaus Mardruz to his Master Ferdinand, Count of Tyrol, 1565 by Richard Howard "My Lord recalls Ferrara? How walls..."
	Read by the author October 3, 1994 Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City from the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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	October 29, 2010 Tishman Auditorium, The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy by Donald Justice "O my coy darling, still..."
	Read by the author December 09, 1982 Pierpont Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Of Distress Being Humiliated by the Classical Chinese Poets by Hayden Carruth "Masters, the mock orange is blooming in Syracuse without..."
	Read by the author May 9, 1989 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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Hear it!	Oklahoma City: The Aftermath by Ira Sadoff "Sometimes I'm so lachrymose I forget I was there..."
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Hear it!	On Looking for Models by Alan Dugan "The trees in time..."
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Hear it!	On the Circuit by W. H. Auden "Among pelagian travelers,..."
	Read by the author March 12, 1964 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	On Translation by Mónica de la Torre "Not to search for meaning, but to reedify a gesture, an intent...."
	Read by the author The Academy Offices June 24, 2003 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Once I Could Say by Ira Sadoff "Once I could say..."
	Audio recorded by Matt O'Donnell Courtesy of From the Fishouse Add to Notebook

Hear it!	One Train May Hide Another by Kenneth Koch "In a poem, one line may hide another line,..."
	Read by the author March 08, 1994 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	only gray rocks with drifting mist... by Rusty Morrison
	Read by the author November 7, 2008 The New School, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Open Letter: A Dialogue on Race and Poetry by Claudia Rankine
	Read by the author February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

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

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

Hear it!	Ordinary Landscape by Jonathan Weinert
	September 2, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf] by Derek Walcott
	October 15, 1964 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Outside by Michael Ryan "The dead thing mashed into the street..."
	Read by the author March 29, 2004 Poets House, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance by Elizabeth Bishop
	Read by John Ashbery March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Parent's Pantoum by Carolyn Kizer "Where did these enormous children come from,..."
	Read by the author March 07, 1995 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Parrotfish 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!	Passing by Carl Phillips "When the Famous Black Poet speaks,..."
	Read by the author September 18th, 2007 East Harwich, Massachusetts From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Patriotics by David Baker "Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy,..."
	Read by the author March 2, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Paul Muldoon & Les Murray CD by Paul Muldoon
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Hear it!	Paul's Tattoo by Mark Doty
	Read by the author September 30, 2006 Stanhope, New Jersey From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Penelope Considers a New Do by Jehanne Dubrow "The magazines declare: Don't ever cut your hair just after breaking up..."
	August 19, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Peon, May I Speak Thus? by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements by Lucie Brock-Broido
	Read by the author April 28, 2004 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Philip Levine CD by Philip Levine
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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 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Physical Plant 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!	Picket Monsters by Major Jackson
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Pocahontas 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!	Poem for Andrew Marvell 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!	Poem in Disconnected Parts by Robert Pinsky
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Poems We Can Understand 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!	Poet as Immortal Bird by Ron Padgett "A second ago my heart thump went..."
	Read by the author January 8, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy of American Poets Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Polar Explorer by Joseph Brodsky
	Read by Paul Muldoon 1996 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Posited by James McMichael "That as all parts of it..."
	Read by the author September 1, 2007 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Prefix: Finding the measure by Robert Kelly "Finding the measure is finding the mantram..."
	Read by the author January 21, 2008 Red Hook, New York From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Present Tense by Harryette Mullen
	Read by the author July 20, 2001 Philosophy Hall Lounge Columbia University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Primogeniture by Julie Agoos "Someone put that basket under the dresser..."
	Read by the author April 23, 2008 New York Public Library, Mulberry Branch From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Privilege of Being by Robert Hass "Many are making love. Up above, the angels..."
	From the Academy Audio Archive Recorded on May 3, 1988 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Psalm by George Oppen "In the small beauty of the forest..."
	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!	Purgatory by Maxine Kumin "And suppose the darlings get to Mantua,..."
	Read by the author February 6, 1979 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Putting Things In Proportion by Kay Ryan
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Quincy Troupe CD by Quincy Troupe
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Hear it!	Quindecagon by Ron Silliman
	Read by the author July 2, 2008 Paoli, Pennsylvania From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	R&B 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!	Randall Jarrell CD by Randall Jarrell
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Hear it!	Real Time by Charlie Smith
	Read by the author May 21, 2009 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Reasons To Survive November by Tony Hoagland
	Read by the author September 28, 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Relics by Charles Wright "After a time, Hoss, it makes such little difference what anyone writes..."
	February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Reminder by Michael Ryan "Torment by appetite..."
	Read by the author March 29, 2004 Poets House, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Render, Render by Thomas Lux "Boil it down: feet, skin, gristle,..."
	Read by the author March 29, 2004 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Rent by Jane Cooper "If you want my apartment, sleep in it..."
	Read by the author December 15, 1997 92nd St. Y, Unterberg Poetry Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Report on the 1921 Fight Between Jack Dempsey and George Carpentier [excerpt] by H. L. Mencken
	Read by James Wright New York City March 30, 1977 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Restless Leg Syndrome by James Tate
	Read by the author May 01, 1996 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Reunion 2005 by Rita Dove
	Read by the author October 18, 2007 The Times Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Rhode Island by William Meredith "Here at the seashore they use the clouds over & over..."
	Read by the author October 26, 1975 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Rhyme of My Inheritance by Joan Larkin
	Read by the author May 23, 2009 Saint Peter's Church, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Rialto by Ron Padgett "When my mother said Let’s go down to the Rialto..."
	Read by the author January 8, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy of American Poets Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Richard Howard CD by Richard Howard
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Hear it!	Richard Wilbur CD by Richard Wilbur
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Hear it!	Riddle by Charles Simic
	Read by the author May 03, 1977 Donnell Library Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Rita Dove & Rosanna Warren CD by Rita Dove
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Hear it!	Road Warriors by Charles Wright "My traveling clothes light up the noon..."
	February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Roanoke and Wampumpeag by Susan Wheeler "Child, entering Ye Olde Trading Post, takes the pegs upon the walls..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Robert Duncan CD by Robert Duncan
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Hear it!	Robert Graves CD by Robert Graves
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Hear it!	Robert Hass & Thom Gunn CD by Robert Hass
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Hear it!	Robert Hayden CD by Robert Hayden
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Hear it!	Robert Penn Warren CD by Robert Penn Warren
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Hear it!	Robert Pinsky CD by Robert Pinsky
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Hear it!	Robin Hood's Barn by John Ashbery
	May 6, 2010 New York University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Round by Tom Sleigh "Somebody's alone in his head, somebody's a kid..."
	Read by the author April 19, 2007 Regina Peruggi Room, Marymount Manhattan College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216) by Emily Dickinson "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—..."
	Read by Kay Ryan November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sally's Hair by John Koethe "It's like living in a light bulb, with the leaves..."
	Read by the author April 14, 2003 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Salmon by Kim Addonizio "In this shallow creek..."
	Read by the author August 29, 2007 Oakland, California From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Science by Robert Kelly "Science explains nothing..."
	Read by the author January 21, 2008 Red Hook, New York From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

Hear it!	Scumble by Rae Armantrout "What if I were turned on by seemingly innocent words..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sentences II by Charles Wright "Last chapter, last verse..."
	February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sentimental Atom Smasher by Darcie Dennigan "So this guy walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Sorry,..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Shakur by Terrance Hayes "I am coming at you live from the half-way out..."
	August 19, 2010 The Arsenal Building, Central Park New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Shirt by Robert Pinsky "The back, the yoke, the yardage. Lapped seams,..."
	Read by the author Academy Audio Archive recorded February 25, 1992 at the French Institute Alliance Francaise Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Shooting the Dog by June Jordan
	1992 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Signal by Mark Doty
	Read by the author September 30, 2006 Stanhope, New Jersey From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea (Sonnet 65) by William Shakespeare "Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea..."
	Read by Jorie Graham March 13, 1997 The New School New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	sisters by Lucille Clifton "me and you be sisters......"
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell "Nautilus Island's hermit..."
	Read by the author October 31, 1963 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Soledad by Robert Hayden "Naked, he lies in the blinded room..."
	Read by the author November 09, 1976 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Some Trees by John Ashbery "These are amazing: each..."
	Read by the author November 10, 1987 Boyslston Hall Harvard University Cambridge, MA Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song for the Clatter-Bones by F. R. Higgins "God rest that Jewy woman..."
	Read by James Wright New York City March 2, 1967 Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song For the Spirit of Natalie Going by Susan Wheeler "Small bundle of bones, small bundle of fingers, of plumpness, of heart..."
	Read by the author May 16, 2009 McNally Jackson Booksellers, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song of Myself, III by Walt Whitman "I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end..."
	Read by Lucille Clifton May 26, 1992 Cathedral of St. John the Divine From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Song of the Andoumboulou: 21 by Nathaniel Mackey "Next a Brazilian cut came..."
	Read by the author November 15, 2006 Academy of American Poets Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room] by Karen Volkman "Laughing below, the unimagined room..."
	Read by the author May 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] by Karen Volkman "Nothing was ever what it claimed to be..."
	Read by the author May 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sonnet [The pearl of interval] by Karen Volkman
	Read by the author May 13, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Souvenir from Anywhere by Harryette Mullen
	July 20, 2001 Philosophy Hall Lounge Columbia University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Stanley Kunitz CD by Stanley Kunitz
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Hear it!	Stein 100: A Feather Likeness of the Justice Chair by Jackson Mac Low "A feather table: reckless gratitude...."
	Read by the author May 16, 2000 The Morgan Library From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Stereo by Anne Waldman
	Read by the author January 31, 2008 AWP Conference, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Still by A. R. Ammons "I said I will find what is lowly..."
	Read by the author October 28th, 1996 92nd St. Y From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Stillbirth by Laure-Anne Bosselaar "On a platform, I heard someone call out your name..."
	Read by the author April 5, 2007 Marymount College, New York From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Street by George Oppen
	April 9, 1964 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Street Music by Robert Pinsky
	February, 25 1992 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Streets by Naomi Shihab Nye "A man leaves the world..."
	Read by the author March 13, 1991 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Stringed Instrument Collection 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!	Structure of Rime IV by Robert Duncan
	1969 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth "Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind..."
	Read by Susan Stewart November 8, 2008 New York University, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Surrounded as we are, unlit, unshadowed by Carl Phillips "Squalor of leaves..."
	October 28, 2010 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Susan's Photograph by Jean Valentine
	Read by the author May 23, 2009 Saint Peter's Church, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Swarm by Nick Flynn "When you see us swarm — rustle of..."
	Read by the author March 3, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sycamores by Henri Cole
	Read by the author April 17, 2007 Housing Works Bookstore Café From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Sylvia by Gerald Stern
	1992 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Symposium by Paul Muldoon
	Read by the author May 09, 1996 New School University From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Syria Renga by Marilyn Hacker
	October 21, 2011 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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..."
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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

Hear it!	Unday by Fanny Howe "From no nowhere not near the sea..."
	Read by the author January 1, 2009 Vineyard Haven, MA From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Under the Viaduct, 1932 by Rita Dove
	1988 From the Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Untitled [So what is it then] 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!	Voiced Stops by Forrest Gander
	Read by the author July 18, 2001 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Vowels 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!	W.H. Auden CD by W. H. Auden
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Hear it!	W.S. Merwin CD by W. S. Merwin
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Hear it!	Ways Poets Go Crazy by C. K. Williams "Wordsworth has crawled from his cradle ..."
	October 28, 2010 The Skirball Center for Performing Arts, NYU New York, NY From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	we both split by Abraham Smith "like summer melon..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	We Heard Health Care by Claudia Rankine "We heard ..."
	Read by the author February 4, 2011 AWP Conference Omni Shoreham Hotel Washington, D.C. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks "We real cool. We..."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Weathering Out by Rita Dove "She liked mornings the best—Thomas gone..."
	Read by the author April 26, 1988 Donnell Library Center From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	What He Thought by Heather McHugh "We were supposed to do a job in Italy..."
	Read by the author April 21, 1992 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	What I Am by Terrance Hayes "Fred Sanford's on at 12..."
	Read by the author April 20, 2000 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	When Black People Are 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!	When You're Lost in Juarez in the Rain and It's Easter Time Too by Charles Wright
	1997 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	whim man mammon by Abraham Smith "secret soil coital..."
	Read by the author August 5, 2008 The Arsenal, Central Park, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	White by J. Michael Martinez "as the meat..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch "Tonight when I knelt down next to our cat, Zooey..."
	Read by the author April 13, 2003 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Wild Yeasts by Annie Finch "Rumbling a way up my dough's heavy throat to its head,..."
	Read by the author October 19, 2006 Academy of American Poets Offices From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	William Matthews CD by William Matthews
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Hear it!	William Stafford CD by William Stafford
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Hear it!	wind is... by Rusty Morrison
	Read by the author November 7, 2008 The New School, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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

Hear it!	Winter Field by Joanna Klink
	Read by the author April 21, 2008 Housing Works Bookstore, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Witchgrass by Louise Glück
	March 17 1992 French Institue Alliance Française From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach by William Stafford "We would climb the highest dune,..."
	Read by the author April 18, 1974 Hunter College From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin "Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right...."
	Read by the author February 06, 1979 Guggenheim Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Words from the Front by Ron Padgett "We don't look as young..."
	Read by the author January 8, 2008 The Academy Offices From the Academy of American Poets Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Workshop by Billy Collins "I might as well begin by saying how much I like the title..."
	Read by the author From The Best Cigarette CD, made available for non-commercial use under the Creative Commons License. Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Xicano by J. Michael Martinez "as light..."
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	XIII by César Vallejo "I think about your sex..."
	Read by Read by Clayton Eshleman November 16, 1992 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	Yonder by Rae Armantrout "Anything cancels..."
	Read by the author March 1, 2007 AWP Conference, Atlanta From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	You Begin by Margaret Atwood "You begin this way:..."
	From the Academy Audio Archive Recorded on April 11, 1978 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	Yusef Komunyakaa & Sharon Olds CD by Yusef Komunyakaa
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Hear it!	Zozo-ji by Dana Levin "One cry from a lone bird over a misted river..."
	Read by the author December 21, 2008 Santa Fe, New Mexico From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[Artfully adorned Aphrodite] by Sappho
	Read by Jim Powell May 16, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[Hiking up Topanga Canyon] by Harryette Mullen
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[In my eyes he matches the gods] by Sappho "In my eyes he matches the gods, that man who..."
	Read by Jim Powell May 16, 1995 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[My Visitor from Nebraska] by Harryette Mullen
	Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

Hear it!	[Time (Outside the Quincunx)] 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!	[Toward the empty earth] by Osip Mandelstam
	Read by Jean Valentine Oct. 16, 2009 Tischman Auditorium, New York City From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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