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POETS & POETRY |
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"The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
—William Faulkner
Beginning with John Berryman’s historic first reading of The Dream Songs on Halloween night, 1963, the Academy of American Poets has presented and recorded over 800 poetry readings, lectures, and symposia, making the Poetry Audio Archive one of the world's richest aural records of poetry. |
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Poets Forum Highlights |
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The Face Without Makeup 
by Victor Hernández Cruz
Deep Lane
by Mark Doty
The Spring Cricket Considers the Question of Negritude
by Rita Dove
Syria Renga
by Marilyn Hacker
from The Book of a Thousand Eyes
by Lyn Hejinian
Everyday We Get More Illegal
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Many Asked Me Not to Forget Them
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Lying While Birdwatching
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Blowjob (Vulgar Slang)
by Sharon Olds
It Turns Out
by Ron Padgett
Animals and Art
by Ron Padgett
And It Begins Like This
by Carl Phillips
Testing Gardening
by Marie Ponsot
Putting Things In Proportion
by Kay Ryan
Counting
by Gerald Stern
Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment [excerpt]
by Anne Waldman
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Newly Added Recordings |
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A New Day
by Philip Levine
Origins [The Flowering Breaker Detonates Its Surf]
by Derek Walcott
New Stanzas for Amazing Grace
by Allen Ginsberg
When You're Lost in Juarez in the Rain and It's Easter Time Too
by Charles Wright
Shooting the Dog
by June Jordan
The Apple Trees at Olema
by Robert Hass
How the Pope is Chosen
by James Tate
To Go
by Heather McHugh
Witchgrass
by Louise Glück
A Part of Speech [As for the stars they are always on]
by Joseph Brodsky
read by Mark Strand
The Black Unicorn
by Audre Lorde
The Study of Happiness
by Kenneth Koch
Love in Boots
by John Ashbery
The Angel of History [In April, the lilacs come, wrapped in Le Monde]
by Carolyn Forché
Structure of Rime IV
by Robert Duncan
The Smokehouse
by Yusef Komunyakaa
To a Butterfly
by James Merrill
Street Music
by Robert Pinsky
On Reading a Child's Guide to Modern Physics
by W. H. Auden
Magpiety
by Czeslaw Milosz
Under the Viaduct, 1932
by Rita Dove
Under the Viaduct, 1932
by Rita Dove
For the Anniversary of My Death
by W. S. Merwin
Street
by George Oppen
A Polar Explorer
by Joseph Brodsky
read by Paul Muldoon
From an Italian Postcard Factory
by Margaret Atwood
My Mother's Lips
by C. K. Williams
The Map
by Larry Levis
The Mark
by Louise Bogan
As I Step Over a Puddle at the End of Winter,I Think of an Ancient Chinese Governor
by James Wright
Dream Song #4
by John Berryman
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Favorite Transcripts |
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Read along as poets and practitioners offer insight into the art of poetry.
Stanley Burnshaw on Robert Frost
"Contrarieties, opposing goods, opposing truths: they are everywhere in [Frost's] art..."
Tony Hoagland in Conversation
"I found poetry when I was a very troubled adolescent. Looking back, I can see that it was mysterious to me..."
Mary Jo Bang in Conversation
"My influences go back a long way, because I think that whomever you read initially becomes your received idea of what a poem is..."
C. K. Williams & Robert Fagles
" think it's hard to comprehend what a huge task Robert Fagles set himself in translating The Iliad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid..."
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Poetry Ringtones |
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"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" with free downloadable ringtones for your mobile phone, available in MP3, AAC, and iPhone (M4R) formats. Learn more >
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New Poetry Video |
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Featured CD |
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Poets.org Exclusive:
Song of the Open Road
Traverse the landscape of American poetry with this Song of the Open Road Audio Anthology, whether you're on your way or at your destination—featuring historical recordings by John Ashbery, John Berryman, Gwendolyn Brooks, Heather McHugh, Adrienne Rich, James Wright, and many more.
Learn more > |
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Featured Poetry Video |
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Other videos by
Frank Bidart,
Kay Ryan, Anthony Hecht, and W. S. Merwin. |
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Most Popular Audio |
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1. Do not go gentle into that good
night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...
2. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood...
3. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We / Left school...
4. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: / I've known rivers ancient as the world ...
5. "What Do Women Want?"
by Kim Addonizio
I want a red dress. / I want it flimsy and cheap... |
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Poets Reading Poets |
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Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock by Wallace Stevens
read by Ann Lauterbach
As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme by Gerard Manley Hopkins
read by Idra Novey
The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
read by Nick Laird
Diving Into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
read by Anne Waldman
The Question answerd by William Blake
read by Robert Piinsky
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers (216) by Emily Dickinson
read by Kay Ryan
Tender Buttons [A Light in the Moon] by Gertrude Stein
read by Lyn Hejinian
Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
read by Susan Stewart
To Autumn by John Keats
read by Stanley Plumly
A Love Song by William Carlos Williams
read by Ron Silliman
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins
read by Karen Volkman
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning
read by Richard Howard
Kublai Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
read by Robert Kelly
Karawane by Hugo Ball
read by Christian Bök
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
read by David Kirby
The Pulley by George Herbert
read by Carl Phillips
The Soul selects her own Society by Emily Dickinson
read by Galway Kinnell
The Anactoria Poem by Sappho
read by Jim Powell
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Free Album Download |
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Poets of Our Time Reading
The sold out Poets Forum Reading on October 18, 2007 provided the rare opportunity to hear some of the most acclaimed contemporary poets, reading together on one stage. Download selections from the evening's performance, including new poems by Frank Bidart, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Lyn Hejinian, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan, Susan Stewart, Gerald Stern, James Tate, Ellen Bryant Voigt. More > |
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