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Rueben Jackson

jamal's lamentation (RA download & QT download) (site)

self portrait, 1988 (RA download & QT download) (site)

Mark Jarman

Arf and Barf (text)

At the Next Table (text)

Canticle (text)

Decision (text)

Grave Alignments (text)

In the Tube (text)

Prayer to End a Dry Spell (text)

Psalm (text)

Ruby Throated Moses (text)

Short Drill (text)

Unholy Sonnet (text)

Unholy Sonnet [1] (text)

Unholy Sonnet [2] (text)

Unholy Sonnet [3] (text)

Unholy Sonnet [4] (text)

Victims (text)

Wailers (text)

Randall Jarrell

Bats (site) (off-site text)

The Bird of Night (site) (off-site text)

Gleaning (site)

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (site) (off-site text)

The Lines (RA download) (site)

The Lost World, I: Childrens Arms (site)

The Lost World, II: A Night With Lions (site)

The Lost World, III: A Street Off Sunset (site)

The Mockingbird (site)

In Montecito (site)

Next Day (text)

Next Day (site) (off-site text)

Three Bills (site)

The Woman at the Washington Zoo (site) (off-site text)

The 92nd Street Y Reading, April 28, 1963 (site)

Introductory Remarks
The Mockingbird
The Bird of Night (off-site text)
Bats (off-site text)
Next Day (off-site text)
Three Bills
Gleaning
In Montecito
The Lost World, I: Childrens Arms
The Lost World, II: A Night With Lions
The Lost World, III: A Street Off Sunset

Gray Jacobik

The Initiation (text)

Temperments (text)

Working Stiff (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) July 13, 1999 (site)
reading, Every Man Whose Soul is Not a Clod Hath Visions

Ha Jin

Bookworm on KCRW, January 4, 2001 (site)

WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) August 24, 2000 (RA download) (site)

Ted Joans

UC Berkeley Reading, February 2, 2000 (site)

All Things Considered, June 1, 2001 (site)

Rodney Jones

Beautiful Child (text)

First Coca-Cola (text)

On Pickiness (text)

Pleas for Forgiveness (text)

Raccoon Time (text)

TV (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) July 4, 1999 (site)

excerpt Elegy For The Southern Drawl (offsite text)

James Weldon Johnson

The Creation (text)

We To America (RA download & QT download) (site)

June Jordan

In Memoriam: Martin Luther King, Jr. (site)

The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one (text)

The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one (site) (off-site text)

Kelly Writer's House Reading (site)

Kelly Writer's House Lecture (site)

Judy Jordon

All Things Considered (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)

Donald Justice

Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy (text)

Robert Kendall

A Study in Chronometric Geometries (text)

Jane Kenyon

Fresh Air (NPR) December 29, 1999 (site)

Galway Kinnell

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (text)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (text)

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)

Another Night in the Ruins and other poems (RA & mp3) (site)

Another Night in the Ruins
The Frog Pond

Wait (QT) (site) (off-site text)

UC of Berkeley, April 5, 2001 Reading [excerpts] (site)

Poetry Breaks (QT) (site)
When did you start writing?

John Kinsella

Adaptation (text)

Fallow (text)

The Melody Haunts My Reverie... (text)

Nocturnal House (text)

The Rabbiters: A Pastoral (text)

Karl Kirchwey

Roman Park, Noon (wmp) (text)

Carolyn Kizer

Parent's Pantoum (text)

Etheridge Knight

Hard Rock Returns To Prison ... (site) (off-site text)

The Idea Of Ancestry (site) (off-site text)

The Idea Of Ancestry (site) (off-site text)

Kenneth Koch

Ann Online Interview (site)

Yusef Komunyakaa

Anodyne (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

from Autobiography of My Alter Ego (wmp) (text)

Blue Light Lounge Sutra... (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

Facing It (site) (off-site text)

Venus's-flytraps (site) (off-site text)

The Whispering Gallery (wmp) (text)

Reading and Interview at Cortland Review (site)

Introduction by David Lehman
An Old Low-down Blues
Ode to a Drum (off-site text)
The Deck (off-site text)
Camouflaging the Chimera (off-site text)
Ode to the Maggot (off-site text)
The Scapegoat
Venus's-flytraps (off-site text)
My Father's Love Letters (off-site text)
Slam, Dunk, & Hook (off-site text)
Blue Light Lounge Sutra... (off-site text)
Thanks (off-site text)
We Never Know (off-site text)
Rhythm Method (off-site text)
Jasmine
Facing It (off-site text)
Anodyne (off-site text)
Yellowjackets (off-site text)
No-good Blues
Interview by David Lehman

Internet Poetry Archive reading (site)

Ode to the Maggot (text)
Ode to the Raccoon (text)
Lime (text)
Venus's-flytraps (text)
The Smoke House (text)
Blackberries (text)
Yellow Jackets (text)
My Father's Love Letters (text)
Believing in Iron (text)
Slam, Dunk, & Hook (text)
Camouflaging the Chimera (text)
You and I Are Disappearing (text)
We Never Know (text)
A Break from the Bush (text)
Tu Do Street (text)
Prisoners (text)
Thanks (text)
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel (text)
Ode to a Drum (text)
A Reed Boat (text)
The Deck (text)
Rhythm Method (text)
Facing It (text)
Anodyne (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)

The Deck (off-site text)

All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
about The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000
with Mark Doty and Anne Waldman

All Things Considered (NPR) April 28, 1998 (site)

The Deck (off-site text)
Venus's-flytraps (off-site text)
Anodyne (off-site text)

Ted Kooser

At the Office Early (text)

Biker (text)

Nicole Krauss (no bio)

Two Poems (RA & mp3) (site)

The Idea of Helen (off-site text)
Valparaiso (off-site text)

Maxine Kumin

Continuum: A Love Poem (text)

Grace (text)

January 25th (text)

The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views (text)

Oblivion (text)

Woodchucks (text)

Woodchucks (site) (off-site text)

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Uses of Emily)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Stanley Kunitz (former Poet Laureate)

Halley's Comet (text)

King of the River (text)
introductionary remarks

The Old Darned Man (RA & mp3) (site)

The Portrait (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Quarrel (text)

The Quarrel (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Round (RA & .au) (text)
introductary remarks

Touch Me (RA & .au) (text)
introductionary remarks

Makor on WNYC (site)

All Things Considered (NPR) (site)

Morning Addition (NPR) July 31, 2000 (site)
appointed poet laureate

PBS Online Newshour, October 26, 2000, Interview
(transcript)
on becoming Poet Laureate

WBUR Interview (wmp) (site)

Laurie Lamon

Potato (text)

When You Tell Me (text)

James Laughlin

Adaptations of Greek Epigrams (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The Consolations (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The Country Road (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The Desert in Bloom (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Easter in Pittsburgh (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Experience of Blood (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The House Of Light (mp3 & m3u) (site)

In Another Country (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Junk Mail (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The Person (mp3 & m3u) (site)

The Shameful Profession (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Step on His Head (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Those to Come (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Laughlin on e.e.cummings (mp3 & m3u) (site)

Laughlin on Poetry and Pound (mp3 & m3u) (site)

PoetryPoetry Reading (m3u) (site)

Ann Lauterbach

ON (Open) (.wav) (text)

Opening Day (site) (text)

Li-Young Lee

Persimmons (text)

Bookworm (KCRW) September 27, 2001 (site)

David Lehman

February 10: The Business (wmp) (text)

March 22 (text)

April 24 (text)

May 1 (text)

August 15 (wmp) (text)

September 22 (text)

October 12 (text)

November 6 (text)

December 8 (wmp) (text)

Dark City (.au) (text)

Flashback (.au) (text)

Ode (text)

The World Trade Center (.au) (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) May 2, 2000 (site)
review of The Daily Mirror

January 1 (off-site text)
March 16
April 26 (off-site text)
December 29

Fresh Air [start 30:04] (NPR) January 11, 2000 (site)
on his new book "The Daily Mirror: a Journal in Poetry"

Fresh Air (NPR) November 10, 1998 (site)
on his new book "The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets"

Denise Levertov

Tenebrae (site)

Woman Alone / Homage to Pavese (3:33) (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
St. Marks Church, NYC, April, 20, 1977

Miriam Levine

At the Piroska Cafe (text)

Come Back (text)

A Day (text)

Homesick (text)

Philip Levine

Animals Are Passing from Our Lives (commentary) (text)

Clouds (RA download) (site)

Coming Close (text)

The Fox (RA download) (site)

Gin (text)

He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do (text)

Holy Day (text)

M. Degas Teaches Art & Science at Durfee Intermediate School (commentary) (text)

Messieur Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfy Intermediate School, Detroit 1942 (site) (off-site text)

Magpiety (text)

The New World (text)

Ode For Mrs. William Settle (text)

On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane (commentary) (text)

On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane
with commentary (text)

The Return (text)

Salts and Oils (text)
with commentary

These Streets (RA download) (site)

They Feed They Lion (text)
with commentary

A Theory of Prosody (text)
with commentary

A Walk with Tom Jefferson (RA download) (site)

The West Wind (wmp) (text)

What Work Is (text)
with commentary

The Beat Interview (NPR) February 28, 2000 (site)

The Connection (WBUR) April 30, 1999 (site)

Cortland Review Interview (text)

Introduction
Part 1 on Robert Lowell
Part 2 on John Berryman
Part 3 on Berryman as mentor
Part 4 on How to get a Good Education
Part 5 on How Teaching affects the Writing Process
Part 6 on Writing a Poem and Making Decisions
Part 7 on Method of Revision
Part 8 on How Philip Levine Learned what Work is
Part 9 on a Detroit-sized Poet
Part 10 on Writing the Elegy
Part 11 on Favorite Curse Word

Fresh Air Interview (NPR) April 23, 1999 (site)

Laurence Lieberman

Love Nips Of The Boa (text)

Lyn Lifshin

Bosnia (text)

But Instead Has Gone Underground (.wav) (site)
(off-site text)

Geese at Midnight (RA download) (text)

In Those Loose Robes, Some Say Jesus was a Flasher, An Exhibitionist, I Suppose (text)

Moving By Touch (.wav) (site) (off-site text)

My Afternoons with Dylan Thomas (text)

Sarah Lindsay

Laser Palmistry: The Early Days (text)

Beth Lisick

The Empress of Sighs (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Weekend Warrior (RA & mp3) (site)

Timothy Liu

Survivors (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Hard Evidence

Gian Lombardo

The Emperor's Comet (text)

Shore Leave (text)

The Track of Water Over the Dam (text)

James Longenbach

Learning Window (wmp) (text)

Photographs (wmp) (text)

The Strangers (wmp) (text)

Audre Lorde

Dahomey (site) (off-site text)

from A Litany for Survival (text)

from A Litany for Survival (QT download) (text)

Adrian C. Louis

Adios Again, My Blessed Angel of Thunderheads and Urine (text)

Song of the Snake (text)

Robert Lowell

Dunbarton (RA & mp3) (site)

For Sale (site) (off-site text)

For the Union Dead (RA download) (text)

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

The Public Garden (text)

Skunk Hour (site) (off-site text)

Skunk Hour (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Ulysses + Circe [9:40] (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 23, 1977

Poetry Reading (New York, 1963) (site)

Thomas Lux

Gorgeous Surfaces (text)

He Has Lived in Many Houses (text)

Henry Clay's Mouth (text)

A Kiss (text)

Lucky (text)

The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball (text)

The Road That Runs Beside The River (text)

Snake Lake (text)

Torn Shades (text)

Virgule (text)

Nathaniel Mackey

Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)

Jackson Mac Low

960 words derived from the name of a deceased friend (.au) with a Variation (site)

38th and 39th Merzgedichte in Memoriam Kurt Schwitters (site)

Forties 105 - Linguistic Relatives (RA & RA download) (site)

Phoneme Dance In Memoriam John Cage (site)

Thanks (site)

from A Vocabulary for Peter Innisfree Moore (site)

LINEbreak SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download) (site)

Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)

Radio Reading Project EPC SUNY Buffalo (RA & RA download)
(site)

J.D. McClatchy

Late Night Ode (text)

Tea With the Local Saint (wmp) (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) (site)

The Connection (NPR) September 18, 2000 (site)
on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Michael McClure

Rain Mirror (RA & mp3) (site)

West Coast Live (NPR) April 1, 2000 (site)

West Coast Live (NPR) February 3, 2001 (site)

West Coast Live (NPR) May 1, 1999 (site)

West Coast Live (NPR) March 20, 1999 (site)

West Coast Live (NPR) August 6, 1994 (site)

Jill McDonough

Ardent (wmp) (text)

Eric McHenry

Borrowing Milky-White for the St. Paul's Student Production of Into the Woods (wmp) (text)

Heather McHugh

What He Thought (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) April 15, 1997 (site)

The Size of Spokane [start 1:03]
What He Thought [start 3:49] (off-site text)

Claude McKay

If We Must Die (site) (off-site text)

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (site) (off-site text)

St. Isaac's Church, Petrograd (RA download & QT download)
(site) (off-site text)

The Tropics In New York (site) (off-site text)

The Tropics In New York (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

John McKernan

Except You Are A Woman (text)

The Future Of An Idea (text)

Letter (text)

Phone Sex (text)

Waiting For The Freight Train To Pass (text)

Words At The Edge Of The Woods (text)

Stephen McLeod

The Dead (wmp) (text)

Lynne McMahon

Bliss (wmp) (text)

Conspiracy Theory (wmp) (text)

His Garden (wmp) (text)

Sentimental Standards (wmp) (text)

Maurice Manning

All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 2001 (site)

Jose R. Martinez

The Egg Story (site)

Free Banking (site)

Tireless Home (text)

Velvet Kennedys (site)

We Talk Two Ways (site)

Sebastian Matthews

Walking With Walter (text)

William Matthews

The Blues (text)

Care (wmp) (text)

Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 (text)

Dire Cure (text)

Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog (text)

New (text)

On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H. (text)

The Shooting (text)

Glyn Maxwell

Poem in Blank Rhyme (text)

Rumpelstiltskin (text)

Time's Fool [excerpt] (text)

Mary Maxwell

The Apotheosis of Delacroix (wmp) (text)

Florence Cassen Mayers

All-American Sestina (text)

Gail Mazur

Bluebonnets (text)

Horizon (wmp) (text)

Hypnosis (wmp) (text)

They Can't Take That Away From Me (text)

Young Apple Tree, December (text)

Christopher Merrill

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Brilliant Water [start 28:00]

All Things Considered (NPR) February 20, 2000 (site)
Discussing his new book Only the Nails Remain on how poets and writers have responded to the war in the Balkans

James Merrill

Alessio and the Zinnias (RA & RA video) (text)

Alessio and the Zinnias (QT download) (text)

Another August (RA & mp3) (site)

The Ballroom at Sandover (.wav) (off-site text)

The Ballroom at Sandover (off-site text)

The Broken Home (site)

Days of 1964 (site)

A Downward Look (RA & video) (text)

A Downward Look (site)

The Emerald (RA Download) (text)

The Envoys (site)

Ice Cap (R & RA video) (text)

Ice Cap (QT download) (text)

Kimono (RA Download) (site)

Kostas Tympakianákis (site)

Lost in Translation (first four stanzas) (site)

More Enterprise (site)

Ouzo for Robin (site)

On the Block, Section I
(Lamp. Terracotta Base, U.S., ca. 1925) (site)

The Pruned Tree (RA & RA video) (text)

The Ring Cycle (QT download) (text)

The School Play (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

The School Play (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

To My Greek (site)

An Urban Convalescence (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

Violent Pastoral (site)

Words for Maria (site)

92nd St. Y's Poetry Center Reading (1967) (site)

Ouzo for Robin
The Envoys
More Enterprise
To My Greek
Words for Maria
Kostas Tympakianákis
Violent Pastoral
The Broken Home

Poems (site)

The Black Swan
Voices from the Other World
A Renewal (off-site text)
Three Chores
An Urban Convalescence (off-site text)
For Proust
The Water Hyacinth
The Broken Home
Days of 1964
Another August
Matinees
The Emerald (off-site text)
The Victor Dog (off-site text)
Dreams About Clothes
Lost in Translation
The Kimono
The School Play (off-site text)
A Downward Look
An Upward Look

The Connection (NPR) April 13, 2000 (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W.S. Merwin

Another River (text)

Any Time (text)

Before the Flood (text)

The Black Virgin (wmp) (text)

Echoing Light (text)

End of a Day (text)

Green Fields (text)

Heights (wmp) (text)

Lit in Passing (wmp) (text)

Memorandum (wmp) (text)

My Friends (text)

One Story (site)

One Story (RA download) (site)

Remembering (text)

Search Party (site)

Shore Birds (text)

The Source (wmp) (text)

The Speed of Light (text)

Term (text)

To a Friend Who Keeps Telling Me He Has Lost His Memory (wmp) (text)

Unknown Bird (text)

Vehicles (text)

Yesterday (text)

Reading from his translation of Dante's "Purgatorio,"
July 20, 2000 (site)

Canto I & intro
Canto V & intro
Canto XXVI & intro

Poetry in America: A Library of Congresss Bicentennial Celebration:
Favorite Poems by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, Rita Dove, Louise Gluck, and W.S. Merwin, along with Joshua Weiner and Naomi Shihab Nye.

April 3, 2000 (site)
April 4, 2000 (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Talk of the Nation (NPR) September 25, 2001 (site) [41:14]

To the Words [42:31]
To Ashes [44:36]
The Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas [47:29]

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is Not All (site) (off-site text)

“Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” [Sonnet XI]
(RA download) (site) (off-site text)

E. Ethelbert Miller

1962: My Brother Richard Returns From The Monastery
(RA download) (site)

1962: My Brother Richard Returns From The Monastery
(QT download) (site)

Helen (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Helen And Martha (RA download & QT download) (site)

Martha And Helen (RA download & QT download) (site)

Slow dancing in D.C. (site)

Public Interest Interview (NPR) May 19, 1999 (site)
with other local poets

Czeslaw Milosz

And the City Stood in its Brightness (text)

Conversation with Jeanne (text)

A Poem for the End of the Century (text)

UC Berkeley Reading, February 3, 2000 (site)

UC Berkeley Reading , April 4, 1983 (site)
with Robert Pinsky and Robert Hass

Introduction
Reading

Bookworm on KCRW, November 24, 1998 (site)
on Old Age and Influence

Bookworm on KCRW, November 22, 1998 (site)
on Post War

Bookworm on KCRW, November 19, 1998 (site)
Introduction and Childhood

Bookworm on KCRW, November 12, 1998 (site)
on Young Adulthood

Bookworm on KCRW, November 5, 1998 (site)
Introduction and Childhood

Susan Mitchell

Golden Bough: The Feather Palm (text)

Lost Parrot (text)

Ange Mlinko

Paranormal Writing (mp3) (text)

Paranormal Writing (.wav) (text)

Honor Moore

Edward (wmp) (text)

Marianne Moore

Armor's Understanding Modesty (site)

A Carriage from Sweden (site) (off-site text)

from Fables of La Fontaine (site)

A Face (site)

The Fish (site)

The Fish (QT download) (site)

The Mind is an Enchanted Thing (site)

Nevertheless (site) (off-site text partial)

Nine Nectarines (site) (off-site text)

Propriety (site)

Rigorists (site)

Spenser's Ireland (site) (off-site text)

To a Steam Roller (site) (off-site text)

What are Years? (site)

The Wood-Weasel (site)

Poetry Reading (Harvard, date unknown) (site)

Jean Monahan

Rough Beast (text)

Robert Morgan

Girdling (text)

The Grain of Sound (text)

Option (text)

Wind From a Waterfall (text)

Tracie Morris

Chain Gang (mp3) (site)

Project Princess (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

Project Princess (.wav) (text)

Word Up! Reading (site)

 
Project Princess (off-site text)
A Flood: Speaks for Itself
Mother Load
Prelude to a Kiss
The Gangsta Suite: Who Knew
Skin

All Things Considered (NPR) November 17, 1997 (site)

Jennifer Moxley

Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)

Wendy Mnookin

Annie Oakley Blows Kisses To Her Audience (text)

His Odyssey (wmp low quality) (text)

His Odyssey (wmp high quality) (text)

His Odyssey (mp3) (text)

Let's Do It This Year (text)

Scar (text)

Shine (text)

To My Readers (text)

Paul Muldoon

The Sightseers (text)

The Sightseers (text) (site)

Symposium (site) (off-site text)

Why Brownlee Left (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) November 24, 1997, (site)

All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)

David Mura

Poems (site)

Grandfather and Grandmother in Love
An Argument: On 1942
from After We Lost Our Way
Listening (off-site text)
from Colors of Desire
selection from Turning Japanese: Memoirs of an Sansei

Les Murry

The Mitchells (site)

The Year of the Kiln Portraits (site)

Duffy and Snellgrove Interview (site)

SMH/Dymocks Literary Lunch, October 1, 1999 (site)

Carol Muske

Benares (wmp) (text)

In Memoriam (wmp) (text)

Eileen Myles

Maxfield Parrish (.au) (text)

Merk (site)

On the Death of Robert Lowell (site)

On the Death of Robert Lowell (mp3) (site)

School of Fish (.wav) (text)

Sleepless (site)

Sleepless (mp3) (site)

Tuesday Brightness (0:50) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Dec. 7, 1977

Ogden Nash

World of Books (BBC) October 31, 1964 (site)

the influence of James Joyce, picking and stealing and rhyming techniques
women
other people’s descriptions of him
the influences and development of American humour

Marilyn Nelson

Dusting (text)

Ruellia Noctiflora (text)

Daniel M. Nester

Altar Boy Highlights (text)

Ornette Coleman, Live at the Golden Circle (text)

Laura Newbern

The Lovely Tall Novelist Danced (text)

Lorine Niedecker

Poetry Reading, (November, 1970) (site)

Naomi Shihab Nye

Praire Home Companion (site)

Wedding Cake (off-site text)
So There
How Far is it to the Land (off-site text)

All Things Considered (NPR) June 21, 1999 (site)
(just commentary, but I like it)

Joyce Carol Oates

Double Portrait (wmp) (text)

Marooned in Dallas (wmp) (text)

No Song I Know (wmp) (text)

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(The Little Caboose Of The Emily Dickinson Express)

Frank O'Hara

Poem (Lana Turner has...) / Poem (Hate is only one...) (1:45) (mp3) (off-site text) / (off-site text) (site)
Recorded by Eugene Brooks + Jerry Newman, NYC, Sept. 1963

Sharon Olds

The Unjustly Punished Child (.wav) (site)

The Clasp (text)

The Ferryer (site) (off-site text)

A Postcolonial Tale (site) (off-site text)

BOMB Audio Interview (site)

BOMB Audio Interview (mp3) (site)

Essay/Reading on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(I Think Emily Dickinson Would Have Been Political Today)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

George Oppen

A Morality Play: Preface (site)

Animula (site)

Ballad (site)

But So As By Fire (site)

Exodus (site)

From a Phrase of Simone Weil's and Some Words of Hegel's (site)

Historic Pun (site)

The Impossible Poem (site)

Latitude Longitude (site)

Of Being Numerous (1-22) (site)

"O Withering Seas..." (site)

Primitive (site)

"Silver As..." (site)

Song, Winds of Downhill (site)

The Speech at Soli (site)

The Occurrences (site)

The Taste (site)

The Translucent Mechanics (site)

West (site)

Poetry Reading (NYC, 1967) (site)
Intro. by Armand Schwerner

Simon J. Ortiz

The Beginning and Ending Song [part 1] (wmp) (site)

The Beginning and Ending Song [part 2] (wmp) (site)

Believing the Belief (wmp) (site)

Busted Boy (wmp) (site)

Greatest Believers and Greatest Disbelievers (wmp) (site)

Indians (wmp) (site)

Just call it smiling for victory (wmp) (site)

Meanwhile (wmp) (site)

A New Story [video: second part] (wmp) (site)

A New Story [audio only] (wmp) (site)

The Polka Dot Kid (wmp) (site)

See Real Indians (wmp) (site)

Strange (wmp) (site)

What I Mean (wmp) (site) (off-site text)

What Indians? (wmp) (site)

Jacqueline Osherow

God's Acrostic (wwp) (text)

Spring Sonnet, with my sister's favorite bit of Deborah ... (wmp) (text)

Alicia Ostriker

The Kiss of Judas (text)

Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(When I Was Growing Up Our Teachers Told Us)

Ron Padgett

The Drummer Boy (wmp) (text)

No Title (1:28) (mp3) (site)
St. Marks Church, NYC, Feb. 8, 1978

All Things Considered (NPR) April 5, 2001 (site)

Bookworm on KCRW, September 25, 1997 (site)

Michael Palmer

As a Real House (text)

Book of the Yellow Castle (text)

Sun (text)

Greg Pape

Flamingo (text)

Fog (text)

Dorothy Parker

Men (.wav & .au) (text)

Linda Pastan

Crocuses (text)

Deer (text)

Green Thumb (text)

The New Dog (text)

Prosody 101 (text)

Debra Pennington

Postscript (text)

Joyce Peseroff

Lilacs on My Birthday (wmp) (text)

Carl Phillips

Gesture, Possibly Archaic (wmp) (site)

A Great Noise (wmp) (text)

The Point of the Lambs (wmp) (text)

Spoils, Dividing (wmp) (text)

This Train (wmp) (text)

Marge Piercy

A kind of theft (text)

I awake feathered (text)

Oh, Veblen, this is much better (text)

Old moon cradling the new moon (text)

Quarrel in the berry patch (text)

What are big girls made of? (text)

Kevin Pilkington

Born Again (text)

from A Christmas Poem (text)

Renting July (text)

Train with Snow and Ice (text)

Wang Ping

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