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Rueben Jackson
jamal's lamentation (RA download & QT download) (site)
self portrait, 1988 (RA download & QT download) (site)
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)
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
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
Bookworm on KCRW, January 4, 2001 (site)
WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) August 24, 2000 (RA download) (site)
UC Berkeley Reading, February 2, 2000 (site)
All Things Considered, June 1, 2001 (site)
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)
The Creation (text)
We To America (RA download & QT download) (site)
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)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 11, 2001 (site)
Ode to a Dressmaker's Dummy (text)
A Study in Chronometric Geometries (text)
Fresh Air (NPR) December 29, 1999 (site)
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?
Adaptation (text)
Fallow (text)
The Melody Haunts My Reverie... (text)
Nocturnal House (text)
The Rabbiters: A Pastoral (text)
Roman Park, Noon (wmp) (text)
Parent's Pantoum (text)
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)
Ann Online Interview (site)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Potato (text)
When You Tell Me (text)
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)
ON (Open) (.wav) (text)
Opening Day (site)
(text)
Persimmons (text)
Bookworm (KCRW) September 27, 2001 (site)
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"
Tenebrae (site)
Woman Alone / Homage to Pavese (3:33) (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
St. Marks Church, NYC, April, 20, 1977
At the Piroska Cafe (text)
Come Back (text)
A Day (text)
Homesick (text)
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)
Love Nips Of The Boa (text)
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)
Laser Palmistry: The Early Days (text)
The Empress of Sighs (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Weekend Warrior (RA & mp3) (site)
Survivors (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Hard Evidence
The Emperor's Comet (text)
Shore Leave (text)
The Track of Water Over the Dam (text)
Learning Window (wmp) (text)
Photographs (wmp) (text)
The Strangers (wmp) (text)
Dahomey (site)
(off-site
text)
from A Litany for Survival (text)
from A Litany for Survival (QT download) (text)
Adios Again, My Blessed Angel
of Thunderheads and Urine (text)
Song of the Snake (text)
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)
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)
Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)
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)
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
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)
Ardent (wmp) (text)
Borrowing Milky-White for the St. Paul's Student Production
of Into the Woods (wmp) (text)
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)
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)
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)
The Dead (wmp) (text)
Bliss (wmp) (text)
Conspiracy Theory (wmp) (text)
His Garden (wmp) (text)
Sentimental Standards (wmp) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 2001 (site)
The Egg Story (site)
Free Banking (site)
Tireless Home (text)
Velvet Kennedys (site)
We Talk Two Ways (site)
Walking With Walter (text)
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)
Poem in Blank Rhyme (text)
Rumpelstiltskin (text)
Time's Fool [excerpt] (text)
The Apotheosis of Delacroix (wmp) (text)
All-American Sestina (text)
Bluebonnets (text)
Horizon (wmp) (text)
Hypnosis (wmp) (text)
They Can't Take That Away From Me (text)
Young Apple Tree, December (text)
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
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)
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]
Love is Not All (site)
(off-site
text)
“Not in a silver casket cool with pearls” [Sonnet XI]
(RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
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
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
Golden Bough: The Feather Palm (text)
Lost Parrot (text)
Paranormal Writing (mp3) (text)
Paranormal Writing (.wav) (text)
Edward (wmp) (text)
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)
Rough Beast (text)
Girdling (text)
The Grain of Sound (text)
Option (text)
Wind From a Waterfall (text)
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)
Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)
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)
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)
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
The Mitchells (site)
The Year of the Kiln Portraits (site)
Duffy and Snellgrove Interview (site)
SMH/Dymocks Literary Lunch, October 1, 1999 (site)
Benares (wmp) (text)
In Memoriam (wmp) (text)
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
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
Dusting (text)
Ruellia Noctiflora (text)
Altar Boy Highlights (text)
Ornette Coleman, Live at the Golden Circle (text)
The Lovely Tall Novelist Danced (text)
Poetry Reading, (November, 1970) (site)
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)
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)
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
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)
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
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)
God's Acrostic (wwp) (text)
Spring Sonnet, with my sister's favorite bit of Deborah ...
(wmp) (text)
The Kiss of Judas (text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(When I Was Growing Up Our Teachers Told Us)
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)
As a Real House (text)
Book of the Yellow Castle (text)
Sun (text)
Flamingo (text)
Fog (text)
Men
(.wav & .au) (text)
Crocuses (text)
Deer (text)
Green Thumb (text)
The New Dog (text)
Prosody 101 (text)
Postscript (text)
Lilacs on My Birthday (wmp) (text)
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)
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)
Born Again (text)
from A Christmas Poem (text)
Renting July (text)
Train with Snow and Ice (text)
Syntax (.wav) (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, March 20, 1998 (site)
reading These Images in honor of the first day of spring
ABC (site)
(off-site
text)
ABC (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
ABC (QT) (site)
(off-site
text)
Biography (text)
First Early Mornings Together (.wav) (text)
The Haunted Ruin (text)
The Haunted Ruin (wmp) (text
bottom of page)
Jar of Pens (text)
Samurai Song (site)
(off-site
text)
The Want Bone (site)
(off-site
text)
History of My Heart (text)
from The Inferno of Dante (site)
- From Canto I (1-69, 89-109)
- From Canto II (1-11)
- From Canto V (22-44, 64-127) (off-site
text)
Jar of Pens (text)
Jersey Rain (text)
The Tuning (text)
Vessel (text)
Internet Poetry Archive (entire reading) (text)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Shirt (with commentary) (text)
- Ginza Samba (with commentary) (text)
- Impossible to Tell (with commentary and afterword) (text)
- Poems with Refrains (with commentary) (text)
- The Night Game (with commentary) (text)
- Ode to Meaning (with commentary) (text)
- To Television (text)
- The Green Piano (with commentary) (text)
- At Pleasure Bay (with commentary) (text)
New York Times, Farrar Straus Giroux reading (site)
- Several Voices Out of a Cloud
- Chanson Un Peu Naïve
- Simple Autumnal (by Louise Bogan)
- The Want Bone (off-site
text)
- The Shirt (off-site
text)
Anthem (NPR) January 30, 1999 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Runagate, Runagate, by Robert Hayden
Anthem (NPR) January 9, 1999 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Anthem (NPR) May 9, 1998 (site)
on Lawrence Tribe's favorite poem
Anthem (NPR) January 3, 1998 (site)
talks about Favorite Poems
Anthem (NPR) January 3, 1998 (site)
on Library of Congress's Favorite Poems reading
American Laureate Leads Poetry Revival
(wmp) (interview
text)
The Connection (WBUR) June 12, 2000 (site)
Millennium Evening at White House April 22, 1998: (site)
Guest Lecturers: Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass and Rita Dove
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)
Morning Edition Literacy Project (NPR), March 19, 2001 (site)
Wired for Books, Mark Halliday interviews Robert Pinsky (site)
Wired for Books, John Ray interviews Robert Pinsky (site)
Poet Laureate's Annual Lecture, October 8, 1998 (site)
Poetry and American Memory
Poet Laureate's Annual Lecture Alternate Link (alternate
site)
PBS Online Newshour, April 10, 2000, Interview (transcript)
on the Favorite Poem Project
PBS Online Newshour, April 2, 1997, Interview (transcript)
- To Television (off-site
text)
- December Blues (off-site
text)
Talk of the Nation: Magnetic Poetry (NPR) (site)
Weekend Addition (NPR) February 28, 1998 (site)
speaks about Pledge Allegiance Pause
All the Dead Dears (site)
(off-site
text)
The Applicant (site)
(off-site
text)
Ariel (site)
(off-site
text)
Battle-Scene (site)
(off-site
text)
A Birthday Present (site)
(off-site
text)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Black Rook in Rainy Weather (site)
(off-site
text)
Candles (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (site)
Daddy (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (site)
(off-site
text)
Daddy (QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Departure of the Ghost (The Ghost's Leavetaking) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Disquieting Muse (site)
(off-site
text)
Fever 103ş (site)
(off-site
text)
Full Fathom Five (site)
(off-site
text)
Full Fathom Five (site)
(off-site
text)
The Ghost's Leavetaking (Departure of the Ghost)
(site)
(off-site
text)
Lady Lazarus (text)
Lady Lazarus (site)
(off-site
text)
Lady Lazarus (site)
(off-site
text)
Leaving Early (site)
(off-site
text)
Lorelei (RA download) (site) (off-site
text)
Lorelei (site)
(off-site
text)
Lorelei (site)
(off-site
text)
Mushrooms (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Nick and the Candlestick (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (site)
(off-site
text)
November Graveyard (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Decline of Oracles (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Decline of Oracles (site)
(off-site
text)
On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad (RA & mp3)
(site)
On the Difficulty of Conjuring Up a Dryad (site)
On the Plethora of Dryads (site)
Perseus: The Triumph of Wit Over Suffering (site)
(off-site
text)
Point Shirley (site)
(off-site
text)
Point Shirley (site)
(off-site
text)
Purdah (site)
(off-site
text)
Sow
(RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Sow (site)
(off-site
text)
The Stones (site)
(off-site
text)
Poems from Harper Audio Listening Room (site)
The Connection (NPR) December 15, 2000 (site)
PBS Online NewsHour, February 18, 1998 (transcript)
Ted Hughes' poems about Sylvia Plath
Cheer (wmp) (text)
Grievers (wmp) (text)
In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel (text)
John 6:17 (text)
The Marriage in the Trees (text)
Naps (text)
Piano (text)
Strays (text)
Turn, Counterturn, Stand (wmp) (text)
Will Work for Food (text)
Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me
My Address is on the Street (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Eight Forty-Eight (site)
reading Sharecropper at end of program
Drunk And Disorderly, Big Hair (wmp audio & video) (site)
I've Been Around: It Gets Me Nowhere (wmp) (site)
Pourriture Noble (wmp) (site)
Wearing the Gaze of an Archaic Statue (wmp) (site)
What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up [Part 1] (wmp)
(site)
What Would You Like To Be When You Grow Up [Part 2] (wmp)
(site)
Cantico del Sole (site)
(off-site
text)
from The Cantos
- Canto I (site)
(off-site
text)
- Canto IV (site)
- Canto XXXVI (site)
- Canto XLV (site)
- Canto LI (site)
- from Canto LXXVI (site)
- Canto LXXXIV (site)
- Canto 99 (site)
Canto 1 (text)
Excerpt from The Cantos (RA & mp3) (site)
Exile's Letter (site)
The Gypsy (site)
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (site)
(off-site
text)
Moeurs Contemporaines (site)
Harper Collins Audio (site)
The Four Steps [talk] (BBC) June 21, 1958 (site)
outlining his antipathy towards all forms of bureacracy
from WWII Radio Speeches
- "Power" (site)
Jim Powell
Siegfried's Destiny (wmp) (text)
In Horsegrazing Siena (wmp) (text)
Coping with Awe
(text)
News from the Edge
of the World (text)
These Winter Evenings
(text)
There Has Been a
Town Surged Under (text)
Picking Them
(text)
Back from Aqueduct
(text)
Silver Trumpet,
Satin Cap (text)
Brooklyn Snapshot (text)
August 1959 (text)
The Day of Good Looks (text)
The Day of Patience (text)
Conversation Piece (text)
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai (text)
Nor'easter Morning (text)
Unfinished Elegy (text)
Ah, (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Angel Applicant (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Athlete's Head (mp3 & .wav) (text)
The Body Pledges Its Allegiance (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Forgetful Angel (mp3 & .wav) (text)
The Fourth of July (site)
Gladiolus (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Gospel (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Group Portrait with Ukuleles (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Man Under a Pear Tree (mp3 & .wav) (text)
My Students Against the Cemetery Pines (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Rough-Cut Head (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Surgeon (peeling an orange) (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Winterreise (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Woman Flying (mp3 & .wav) (text)
Anhinga Reading Six Poems (all six) (site)
- Rough-Cut Head (off-site
text)
- Winterreise (off-site
text)
- Gladiolus (off-site
text)
- Group Portrait with Ukeleles (off-site
text)
- The Fourth of July
- Woman Flying (text)
I Get a Feeling (text)
This Summer (.wav) (text)
Cycle (text)
My Daughters in New York (text)
Married Blues (site)
Kaddish (site)
(off-site
text excerpt)
The Lamps are Burning (site)
Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays (site)
Salmon and Wine (site)
Samuel (site)
The Art of Translation (off-site
text)
Diving into the Wreck (site)
(off-site
text)
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(This Is My Third and Last Address to You)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
My Godzilla (wmp) (text)
Frescoes Underground (text)
Into the Wall (text)
Never Forget (text)
Piero's Resurrection (text)
Secret Hours (text)
Terra Cotta (text)
Vespers (text)
Docudrama (wmp) (text)
The Favored (wmp) (text)
What I Know (wmp) (text)
Weekend Edition (NPR) January 2, 1999 (site)
on his Word Wide residency (site)
National Endowment of the Arts program
I Need (site)
My Papa's Waltz (text)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1999) (site)
Late Elvis (site)
(text)
Lover Release Agreement (site)
(text)
Password (site)
(text)
Raven (site)
(text)
Reading at the Y (site)
(text)
Sea and Rain (site)
(text)
Sole Blessing (site)
(text)
Prologomena to a Poetics (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Bookworm on KCRW, March 22, 2001 (site)
LINEbreak (RA & RA download) (site)
That Dada Strain (selections) (RA & RA download) (site)
(off-site text)
David J. Rothman
Not My Leg (text)
The Conjugation of the Paramecium (text)
Despisals (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Despisals (site)
(off-site
text)
Poem (RA download) (site)
Among English Verbs (text)
Emptiness (text)
This Life (text)
Lavender Disaster (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, August 26, 1999 (site)
Cortland Review Interview (text)
- ...about where he gets ideas for his poems
- ...on what we should ask ourselves as poets
A Kiss in Space (text)
Song No. 2 (site)
[I've been keeping company with the layaway man]
(Set. No. 2) (RA download & QT download) (site)
Wounded in the House of a Friend (Set No. 2) (site)
Anthem (NPR) Callaloo Remembers Sterling Brown,
with Sonia Sanchez (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) March 9, 2000 (site)
Voices in the Family (WHYY) October 19, 1998 (site)
The People, Yes (site)
Earth Day Story (text)
My Place (text)
Worn Tool (text)
After Catullus (wmp) (text)
The Fostering (wmp) (text)
Illuminated Manuscript (wmp) (text)
Llandudno (wmp) (text)
Romeo & Juliet (wmp) (text)
Small Variations (wmp) (text)
Spring Elegy (wmp) (text)
(For Frank Vincent, my student, who died of AIDS
March 17, 1997)
A Tulip in Winter (wmp) (text)
for Janice Fitzpatrick
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Prisoner at a Desk
- The Phoenix
- The Lady and the Unicorn/ The Cluny Tapestries
- The Swans
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- The Muse as Medusa
- Metamorphosis; Mozart Again
- The Olive Grove
- The First Autumn (For My Mother)
- The House in Winter
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Of the Seasons/Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Santa Fe, New
Mexico
- My Sisters, O My Sisters
- The Return of Aphrodite.
Harper Audio Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- On a Winter Night
- Death and the Turtle
- A Celebration of George Sarton
- An Observation, Girl with Cello
Talk of the Nation (NPR) June 25, 1999 (site)
Letter to the Draft Board (text)
Prayer to Simone Weil (text)
Sleep, Gods, the Night Is Long (text)
Sonnet (text)
from bum series (site)
(text)
from Friendship (site)
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (site)
LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download) (site)
He Tells His Mother What He's Working On (wmp) (text)
Her Waltz (wmp) (text)
Shut-Eye (text)
Small Airport in Brazil (text)
The Two Horses, a Memory (wmp) (text)
Fresh Air (NPR) November 20, 2000 (site)
Got him another look... (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (site)
(off-site text)
The Year 2000 (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
All My Pretty Ones (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Her Kind (text)
Her Kind (site)
(off-site
text)
Music Swims Back to Me (RA dowload) (text)
You Doctor Martin (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Said the Poet to the Analyst (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Truth The Dead Know (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
- Self in 1958
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods
- Making a Living
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Her Kind (off-site
text)
- The Ambition Bird (off-site
text)
- Ringing the Bells (off-site
text)
- Music Swims Back to Me (off-site
text)
- The Truth the Dead Know (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- With Mercy for the Greedy (off-site
text)
- The Starry Night (off-site
text)
- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
(off-site
text)
- Self in 1958
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods Making a Living
- Jesus Cooks
- Jesus Walking
- The Fury of Overshoes (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Rowing (off-site
text)
- Riding the Elevator Into the Sky (off-site
text)
- The Play
- The Rowing Endeth (off-site
text)
- Us
- The Touch (off-site
text)
Poems (site)
- Her Kind (off-site
text)
- The Ambition Bird (off-site
text)
- Ringing the Bells (off-site
text)
- Music Swims Back to Me (off-site
text)
- The Truth the Dead Know (off-site
text)
- With Mercy for the Greedy (off-site
text)
- The Starry Night (off-site
text)
- Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound
(off-site
text)
- Self in 1958
- Divorce, Thy Name is Woman
- Gods
- Making a Living
- Jesus Cooks
- Jesus Walking
- The Fury of Overshoes (off-site
text)
- Rowing (off-site
text)
- Riding the Elevator Into the Sky (off-site
text)
- The Play
- The Rowing Endeth (off-site
text)
- Us
- The Touch (off-site
text)
Anne Sexton singing with Her Kind (rock group) (site)
- Woman with Girdle (.aiff & .wav)
- Woman with Girdle sample (.aiff & .wav)
The Accident (wmp) (text)
Bonsai, Golden Lotus (wmp) (text)
Hallway (wmp) (text)
The Naked Eye (wmp) (text)
Old Joke (wmp) (text)
Phone Call (wmp) (text)
Scan (wmp) (text)
Anthem (NPR) January 16, 1999 (site)
poems on Michael Jordon
All Things Considered, Obituary, May 17,2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Dear Gonglya (site)
(off-site text)
Dear Gonglya (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Your One Good Dress (site)
(off-site text)
Your One Good Dress (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)
Baby in the Treetop (text)
Gerbilicious Winter (text)
God speed (text)
Hermana Sandinista (text)
Noon Whistle (text)
White Iris (text)
Albany (text)
Oz (text)
Oz (site)
(off-site
text)
Live at the Writers House (site)
Poetry Reading (La Jolla, 1999) (site)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)
Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)
with Rae Armantrout
SUNY Buffalo EPC Reading, 1995 (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, May 10, 1999 (site)
Leaving an Unknown City (text)
Riddle (text)
We were so poor... (RA & mp3) (site)
from A Fly in the Soup (memoir) (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 23, 1999 (site)
Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis (text)
Ballade: Women of Time Past (text)
A Farewell to his Muse (text)
San Destin (wmp) (text)
Autobiographical (wmp) (text)
History (text)
Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb (wmp) (text)
Demon (wmp) (text)
Prayer (wmp) (text)
1-A, 1968 (wmp) (text)
For You (wmp) (text)
Los Dos Rancheros (site)
(off-site
text)
Los Dos Rancheros (mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Wired for Books, Fifteen Poems (site)
Biting Back (site)
Chinese Cucumbers (site)
Chinese Cucumbers (site)
Dark Magicians (site)
New York Heavyweight Bout (mp3) (site)
(Sherman Alexie reads &Vibratto8 and Patricia Smith reads
& For John Coltrane 8)
Skinhead (site)
Sweet Daddy (site)
Terrell's Take on Things (site)
What It's Like to Be a Black Girl (For Those of You Who Aren't)
(site)
The Connection (NPR) January 5th, 2001 (site)
The Connection (NPR) May 19, 2000 (site)
After the Record Contract (site)
An Early Poem That's Still First in the Book (site)
Dream of Life: The 1980's and 1990's (site)
The Histories of the Universe (7:46) (mp3) (site)
Recorded at St. Marks Church, NYC, Jan 1, 1975
Patti Smith Reads from 'Collection' and Performs 'Last Call'
(off-site
text) and 'Beneath the Southern Cross'
(off-site
text) (site)
Question & Answer (site)
92nd Street Y reading (site)
- Introduction
- An Early Poem That's Still First in the Book
- After the Record Contract
- Dream of Life: The 1980's and 1990's
- Question & Answer
- Patti Smith Reads from 'Collection' and Performs 'Last
Call' (off-site
text) and 'Beneath the Southern Cross' (off-site
text)
All Clear (text)
Charity (text)
Comet (text)
Birdie (text)
Demotic (text)
The Girls of O'Connell Street (text)
Glossolalia (text)
House of Words (text)
A Lasting Fire (text)
Moth Aubade (text)
Nixology (text)
Sourwood (text)
Unnatural Selection (text)
Yule, Mall, Petting Zoo (text)
Cortland Review Video Reading (site)
Not Waving but Drowning (site)
(text in link)
The Lively Arts (BBC) November 21, 1965 (site)
- her sources of inspiration, the gestation of a poem
- her poem 'V'
from Heart's Needle (site)
(off-site
text)
Summer of Ninety-Seven (wmp) (text)
Poetry Reading UC Berkeley, March 12, 1987 (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) November 22, 1997 (site)
Best Minds Poetry Series (site)
PBS Online News Hour, April 22, 1996 (site)
artistic side of Earth Day, also with Robert Hass
My Mother's Chess (text)
My Daughter at Chess (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 30, 2000 (site)
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Black Star Yearning (text)
Seasons Journal (wmp) (text)
Valentine (text)
White Water Vision (text)
Choosing a Dog (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Explaining the Big One (RA download) (site)
First Grade (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Lit. Instructor (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Over the Mountain (RA download) (site)
(off-site text)
with Robert Bly reading The Foghorn and discussion
A Ritual to Read to Each Other (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Roll Call (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Security (RA download) (site) (off-site
text)
With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach (site)
(off-site
text)
With Kit, Age Seven, at the Beach (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
from A Literary Friendship (RA download) (site)
excerpts from a discussion with Robert Bly
- Early Roots
- Golden Threads
- Coincidence
- Simplicity and MTV
- Writing Poetry
- William Stafford's Work
Autumn Botany (text)
Cassandra (text)
Midas at Sunset (text)
The Sibyl Speaks (text)
"To Speke of Wo that Is in Mariage" (text)
All Things Considered, Obituary, July 30, 1998 (site)
If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso (site)
(off-site
text)
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (site)
(off-site
text)
If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Pablo Picasso (.au)
(site)
(off-site
text)
Madame Recamier: An Opera (site)
The Making of Americans (1 & 2) (site)
(off-site
text selection)
Matisse (site)
(off-site text)
A Portrait of Christian Berard, a Painter (site)
A Portrait of T.S. Eliot (site)
She Bowed to Her Brother (site)
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (RA download) (site)
A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (site)
A Valentine for Sherwood Anderson (site)
At the Hill School guest house in Pottstown, Pa. (wmp) (text)
The Dancing (text)
The Dog (mp3) (text)
Larry Levis Visits Easton, Pa., During a November Freeze
(wmp) (text)
Sylvia (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) May 2, 1999 (site)
- They Were Both 65
All Things Considered (NPR) March 28, 1999 (site)
- Excerpt, There is Wind, There are Matches
All Things Considered (NPR) March 27, 1999 (site)
- Paris
PBS Online Newshour, November 23, 1998, Interview (transcript)
Credences of Summer (site)
Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour (site)
(off-site
text)
In the Element of Antagonisms (site)
The Idea of Order at Key West (text)
The Idea of Order At Key West (site)
(off-site
text)
Large Red Man Reading (site)
The Life of a Poet (A Prose Note) (site)
Looking across the Fields and Watching the Birds Fly (site)
(off-site
text)
Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself (.aiff) (site)
(off-site
text)
Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain (site)
(off-site
text)
from Prologues to What is Possible (site)
Puella Parvula (site)
This Solitude of Cataracts (site)
(off-site
text)
The Theory of Poetry (A Prose Note) (site)
To an Old Philosopher in Rome (RA & .au) (off-site
text)
To An Old Philosopher In Rome (site)
(off-site
text)
Two Illustrations The the World Is What You Make of It (site)
Vacancy in the Park (site)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- The Idea of Order at Key West (off-site
text)
- The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain
- Vacancy in the Park
Essay on Emily Dickinson from Titanic Operas (text)
(Breaking the Tired Mold of American Poetry)
From a Litany (site)
From the Long Sad Party (text)
The Night, the Porch (wmp) (text)
Somewhere Else (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, October 26, 2000 (site)
Bookworm on KCRW, September 14, 2000 (site)
PBS Online Newshour, April 15, 1999, Interview (transcript)
for Pulitzer Prize
Talk of the Nation (NPR) December 22, 1999 (site)
talks about state of poetry today with Deborah Garrison
the sound of the memory (RA & mp3) (site)
Fresh Air Interview (NPR) February 5, 1999 (site)
second half of audio
Ceramic Fish (site)
(off-site
text)
Chimera (site)
Dasein (text)
Deep Adjustments (text)
Heart of the Fugue (text)
Laughter of the Loon (text)
Mirror, Cignal, Minerva (text)
Reading Palms (site)
Shakespeare, Semaphore (text)
Aubade (text)
Belles Lettres (text)
Land's Cape (wmp) (text)
Bookworm on KCRW, August 5, 1999 (site)
The Mediterranean (text)
Restless Leg Syndrome (text)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (text)
After Basho (text)
Event Horizons (text)
History's Stories (text)
History's Stories (text)
Moment (text)
South Beach Wedding (text)
South Beach Wedding (text)
Thera (text)
Wilderness (text)
And Death Shall Have No Dominion (.wav) (site)
(off-site
text)
The Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait (.wav) (site)
(text)
A Child's Christmas In Wales (site)
A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems (site)
A Child's Christmas in Wales (RA & mp3) (site)
Do not go gentle into that good night (text)
Do not go gentle into that good night (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Do not go gentle into that good night (.wav) (off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- No Sun Shines (off-site
text)
- The Hand that Signed the Paper (off-site
text)
- Should Lanterns Shine (off-site
text)
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion (off-site
text)
- and the first verse of Altarwise by Owl Light
(off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems
(RA & .au) (site)
- Poem in October (off-site
text)
- This Side of the Truth (off-site
text)
- Love in the Asylum (off-site
text)
- The Hunchback in the Park (off-site
text)
Harper Collins, Poems (RA & .au) (site)
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (off-site
text)
- On the Marriage of a Virgin (off-site
text)
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (off-site
text)
- Ceremony After a Fire Raid
Misc. Poems (site)
- Death Shall Have No Dominion (off-site
text)
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (off-site
text)
- On the Marriage of a Virgin (off-site
text)
- In My Craft or Sullen Art (off-site
text)
- Ceremony After a Fire Raid
- No Sun Shines (off-site
text)
- The Hand that Signed the Paper (off-site
text)
- Should Lanterns Shine (off-site
text)
- Altarwise by Owl Light (off-site
text)
- Poem in October (off-site
text)
- This Side of the Truth (off-site
text)
- Love in the Asylum (off-site
text)
- The Hunchback in the Park (off-site
text)
Reminiscences of Childhood (BBC) May 6, 1953 (site)
- first childhood impressions of his home town
- school, and the endurance of childhood memories
- the local park as his childhood world
- secret societies and their initiation rites
All Colors Not White (RA & mp3) (site)
All Colors Not White (site)
Exotic People (RA & mp3) (site)
Mirror-fuc-cation (site)
A Page from the Flictionary of Deafeningition Part 1 (site)
A Page from the Flictionary of Deafeningition Part 2 (site)
Rhumba Bomballett (site)
Untitled Eternity (mp3) (site)
A Wutherance of E (site)
A Wutherance of E (site)
Kelly Writer's House Reading/Performance (site)
Super Fine Pitch (site)
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris Reading
University of Hawai'i, Manoa Reading (site)
Dragonfly (wmp) (text)
Last Hike Before Leaving Montana (wmp) (text)
Missoula Winter: the Thaw, the Ice Floes, and the Boy (wmp)
(text)
Change for Margaret & Porter (text)
link in text
Poem For Magic (site)
(off-site
text)
Skulls Along the River (mp3) (site)
So What (RA & mp3) (site)
Cleveland Public Radio (site)
discussing James Baldwin and Miles Davis
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
Whad'Ya Know (WPR), September 23, 2000 (site)
My Toshiba (wmp) (text)
Roach Holder, c. 1967 (wmp) (text)
Poems from The Kshanti Literary Review (.wav) (text)
- Early Lesson
- Zazen, Wired
- Zazen, Tired
- Mountains and Rivers
- Cat and Mirror
- Stray
- Ignorant Poem
from Endings (text)
Himalaya (wmp) (text)
Song and Story (text)
I've had to Learn to Live with My Face (site)
(off-site text)
Hopes & Fears (site)
Naropa University reading (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) September 24, 2000 (site)
about The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 2000
with Yusef Komunyakaa and Mark Doty
Crusoe's Island (site)
(off-site text)
A Lesson for the Sunday (site)
Star (wmp) (text)
speaking on the Odyssey (site)
Poetry Reading (New York, 1963) (site)
(off-site text)
Farrar Straus Giroux reading (site)
- In late afternoon light the tops of the breadfruit leaves
- After the plague, the city-wall caked with flies, the
smoke's amnesia
- Lullaby
- Love Song
WBFO Spoken Arts (NPR) May 3, 2001 (RA download) (site)
Reproduction of Profiles (site) (text)
Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1997) (site)
Corner B (site)
The Bottomless Bottle (site)
64 Cent Sonnet (site)
(text)
Push (site) (text)
Kelly Writers House Reading (site)
Ballad of the Hoppy-Toad (text)
Big John Henry (text)
Dark Blood (text)
Delta (text)
For My People (text)
I Hear a Rumbling… (text)
I Want to Write (text)
Kissie Lee (text)
Long John Nelson and Sweetie Pie (text)
Love Song for Alex, 1979 (text)
Molly Means (text)
October Journey (text)
Sorrow Home (text)
Southern Song (text)
The Struggle Staggers Us (text)
We Have Been Believers (text)
Internet Poetry Archive
Answers to Audience Questions (site)
- where the word "goopher man" comes from
- about her relationship to Richard Wright
- about publishing her first book
- insights on her transition to Jubilee
- advice to students
- on which poem speaks most to the strengths of women
Vasectomy (text)
All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, May 25, 1998 (site)
The Nature of a Mirror (site)
Coin On The Floor At The Redroom (RA download)
(off-site
text) (site)
Duped (RA download) (text)
Feminine (RA download) (off-site
text) (site)
Happy Birthday Elvis (RA download) (site)
Happy Birthday Elvis! (site)
I'm Falling In Love With My Pillow Over You (RA download)
(site)
A Journey (RA download) (off-site
text) (site)
Passing Through El Paso (RA download) (off-site
text) (site)
So I Read You (RA download) (off-site
text) (site)
To Be As Drunk And Successful (RA download) (site)
The Turquoise Dress (RA download) (off-site
text) (site)
Wildman Of Ninth Avenue (RA download) (text)
Wildman Of Ninth Avenue (QT download) (off-site
text) (site)
The Body of My Brother (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Chronic Pain Sydrome (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
The Girl in the Painting by Vermeer (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
July 16th (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Late February (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
MS (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Physical Exam (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Restrictive (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Starting the IV: Anesthesia (aiff download) (text)
with commentary
Croquet (text)
Enthusiasm (text)
Giant Fungus (text)
Post-Vacation Tristesse (text)
Reservations Confirmed (text)
Silent Letters (text)
Stuck in Traffic... (text)
Suitcase (text)
The Wife of the Mind (text)
Letter Found Blown Against a Fence (wmp) (text)
Poem (wmp) (text)
Home and Away [last 10 in 50] (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Air Map (wmp) (text)
The 1-Minute Author Interview (site)
Poets & Writers Interview (site)
America (text)
[history
of recording]
America (site)
(off-site
text)
Bone Key (text)
C Minor (text)
The Disappearing Alphabet (text)
The Prisoner of Zenda (text)
She (text)
Internet Poetry Archive reading (site)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Hamlen Brook (text)
- A Fable (text)
- A Storm in April (text)
- Boy at the Window (text)
- The Ride (text)
- Advice to a Prophet (text)
Biopsy (wmp) (text)
The Covenant (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 15, 2000 (site)
- Glass
Morning Edition (NPR) April 12, 1999 (site)
Morning Edition (NPR) January 3, 1997 (site)
about inauguration poem
Ohm (RA download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Ohm (QT download) (site)
(off-site
text)
Twice the First Time (site)
(off-site text)
Ann Online Interview (site)
Arctic Light (site)
Cellophane Boxes (site)
The Dangerous Painters (site)
A Fable (site)
Faint as a Leaf Shadow (site)
Old Men Were Never Young (site)
92nd Street Y reading (site)
- Old Men Were Never Young
- A Fable
- Faint as a Leaf Shadow
- Arctic Light
- Cellophane Boxes
- The Final Strategic Retreat (story)
- The Dangerous Painters
excerpt from Asphodel, That Greeny Flower (site)
(off-site
text)
The Botticellian Trees (site)
(off-site
text)
The Catholic Bells (site)
(off-site
text)
from The Desert Music (site)
- The Descent (off-site
text)
- To Daphne and Virginia
- The Orchestra
- For Eleanor and Bill Monahan
- The Yellow Flower
- The Host
Fish (site)
Flowers by the Sea (site)
(off-site
text)
It is a Living Coral (site)
"Lighthearded William..." (site)
(off-site
text)
On Gay Wallpaper (site)
Peace on Earth (site)
(off-site
text)
Primrose (site)
(off-site
text)
Queen-Anne's-Lace (site)
(off-site
text)
The Red Lily (site)
Smell! (site)
(off-site
text)
from Spring and All
- Spring
and All (site)
(off-site
text)
- from
xviii (site)
To Elsie (text)
To Elsie (site)
(off-site
text)
To Elsie (site)
(off-site
text)
Real Video (varied imagery) with commentary by Allen Ginsberg
The Yachts (site)
(off-site
text)
from Harper Collins Audio (site)
Poetry Reading (Harvard, date unknown) (site)
- Burning the Christmas Green (off-site
text)
- The Visit
- The Lions
- Spring and All (off-site
text)
- This is Just to Say (off-site
text)
- On Gay wall Paper
- Flowers by the Sea
- The Yacht (off-site
text)
- Virtue
- Smell! (off-site
text)
- To Greet a Letter Carrier
- At the Bar
- Perfection
- Fertile
- Picture of a Nude in a Machine Shop
- Venus Over the Desert
- Birth of Venus
Apocrypha (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
Anthem (NPR) December 5, 1998 (site)
about Yale Younger Poets award
Everyone in their car... (QT) (site)
(site text)
Everyone in their car... (.aiff) (site)
(site
text)
only the crossing counts (wmp) (text)
The Retort Room (wmp) (text)
There are enough signs... (QT) (site)
(site
text)
There are enough signs... (.aiff) (site) (site text)
This is where... (QT) (site)
(site text)
This is where... (.aiff) (site)
(site
text)
Tours (text)
Early Saturday Afternoon, Early Evening (site)
Quotations (wmp) (text)
Dia Center Reading, December 9, 2000 (site)
PBS Online Newshour, April 15, 1998, Interview (transcript)
for Pulitzer Prize
Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)
Description of Her Eyes (site)
(off-site
text)
Homage (site)
Resurrection: Elegy (site)
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (text)
Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho (text)
The Other World (text)
Winter Bale (text)
Hoboken Palace Gardens (.wav) (text)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (text)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree (site)
(off-site
text)
The Second Coming (site)
(off-site
text)
When You Are Old (site)
(off-site
text)
National Lecture on Modern Poetry (BBC) October
11, 1936 (site)
on the work of Edith Sitwell, the effect of WW1, the
revolutionary poet T.S. Eliot, the nature of Modern poets
Upon Julia's Breasts (RA & mp3) (site)
(off-site
text)
A Dance For Militant Dilletantes (site)
Lester Leaps In (site)
Poem For Players (site)
All Things Considered (NPR) February 10, 1999 (site)
- Eddy Priest's Barbar Shop and Notary
- Negative (off-site
text)
- Blues
Birth of a Star (RA download) (site)
Clouds (site)
(RA download)
The Handsome One (RA download) (site)
Ka:cim Su:dagi (RA download) (site)
Lonely Mountain (RA download) (site)
Riding the Earth (RA download) (site)
Those That Walk the Earth (site)
- Butterfly (RA download)
- Bat (RA download)
- Scorpion (RA download)
- Gila Monster (RA download)
- Horned Toad (RA download)
- Lizard (RA download)
- Hummingbird (RA download)
All Things Considered (NPR) April 26, 2001 (site)
- Pulling Down the Clouds
- Jewed 'I-Hoi
- Riding the Earth
excerpt from "A" - 12 (site)
Mantis (site)
misc poems (site)
Song 22 (site)
Poetry Reading (KPFA, Berkeley. August, 1954) (site)
Poetry Reading (site)
and conversation with Hugh Kenner
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