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

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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke "The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy..."
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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!	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!	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!	Messieur Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfy Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 by Philip Levine
	Read by the author October 08, 1991 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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

Hear it!	Nearing Dawn by Jorie Graham "Sunbreak. The sky opens its magazine. If you look hard..."
	Read by the author April 3, 2008 The New Museum, 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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	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

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!	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!	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!	The Red Poppy by Louise Glück "The great thing..."
	Read by the author March 17, 1992 French Institue Alliance Fran‡aise 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!	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!	My Parents Have Come Home Laughing by Mark Jarman "My parents have come home laughing..."
	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 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 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!	Jeffers by Mark Jarman "To raise a stump of rock into a tower, rolling a stone..."
	Read by the author February 1, 2008 AWP Conference, Hilton Hotel, New York City 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!	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!	Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin "Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right...."
	Read by the author February 06, 1979 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

Hear it!	This Bridge, Like Poetry, is Vertigo 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!	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!	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!	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!	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!	Long Companions 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!	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!	Death's Door by Thom Gunn
	1988 From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	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!	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!	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!	The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,..."
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Hear it!	To Elsie by William Carlos Williams "The pure products of America..."
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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!	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!	First Things First by W. H. Auden
	Read by the author First Things First (Audio Only) Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	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!	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!

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!	Mood Indigo by William Matthews
	Read by the author From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook Buy the CD

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!	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!	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 Widening Sky by Edward Hirsch
	Read by the author April 13, 2003 Poets House From the Academy Audio Archive Add to Notebook

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!	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!	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!	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!	We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks "We real cool. We..."
	Read by the author May 03, 1983 Guggenhiem Museum From the Academy Audio Archive