Laurable:  1.  Susceptible, capable, or worthy of being Laura.  2.  Inclined or given to a state of Laura or acting as Laura.  [Middle English, from Old French laureole, from Latin laureola, diminutive of laurea, Laurel tree. Poetry Audio Links

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A.R. Ammons

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

Maya Angelou

Signifying (RA download) (site)

Signifying (QT) (site)

on Sesame Street (QT) (site)

John Ashbery

Soonest Mended (RA download) (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W. H. Auden

IV. Autumn Song (site) (off-site text)

IV. Autumn Song (from Twelve Songs) (site) (off-site text)

Moon Landing (off-site text) with August 1968 (off-site text) (site)

Musée des Beaux Arts (site) (off-site text)

Amiri Baraka

Rhythim Blues (site)

Rhythim Blues (RA download & QT download) (site)

Shazam Doowah (site)

Shazam Doowah (RA download QT download) (site)

Coleman Barks

New Year's Day Nap (text)

The Connection (NPR) November 22, 1999 (site)
on the Persian poet Rumi

Marvin Bell

The Mystery of Emily Dickinson (wmp) [download] (site)

That Swine are Intelligent (wmp) [download] (site)

To Dorothy (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

White Clover (wmp) [download] (site) (off-site text)

Written During Depression: How to be Happy (wmp) [download] (site)

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000

Iowa Talks November 9, 2000 (site)
interview including the poems

To Dorothy [7:35] (off-site text)
My Hate [16:08]
Today Tibet [21:45]
Tomorrow Tibet [22:51]
One of the Animals [25:53]
About the Dead Man [32:09]
More About the Dead Man [33:14]
To No One in Particular [47:46]

John Berryman

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Robert Bly

Prairie Home Companion (site)

Waking on a Farm
When the Cat Stole the Milk
The Day We Visited New Orleans
Visiting Sand Island
Conversation with a Mouse (off-site text)

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Mother (site) (off-site text)

The Mother (RA download & QT download) (site)
(off-site text)

We Real Cool (text)

We Real Cool (text)

We Real Cool (site) (off-site text)

We Real Cool (site) (off-site text)

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Sterling Brown

Ma Rainey (site)

Old Lem (site)

Strong Men (site) (off-site text)

Lucille Clifton

Cruelty (site)

Cruelty (RA download & QT download) (site)

Homage to My Hips (text)

Homage to my Hips (site) (off-site text)

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Billy Collins

Forgetfulness (text)

The First Dream (text)

Japan (text)

Marginalia (text)

Nightclub (site) (off-site text)

On Turning Ten (site) (off-site text)

Jane Cooper

Rent (text)

Rent [download RealJukebox] (site) (off-site text)

All Things Considered (NPR) June 29, 2000 (site)

Rent (off-site text)
The Blue Anchor

Robert Creeley

Echo (site)

Echo (RA download) (site)

First Love (site)

First Love (RA download) (site)

First Love (mp2) (site)

First Love (.wav) (site)

Thinking (site) (off-site text)

Thinking (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Windows (site)

Windows (RA download) (site)

Windows (mp2) (site)

Windows (.wav) (site)

The Connection, (WBUR) January 4, 2000 (site)

LINEbreak from SUNY Buffalo (RA download & mp2) (site)

e.e. cummings

anyone lived in a pretty how town, excerpt (wmp) (site)

why must itself up every of a park (text)

Mark Doty

The Embrace (text)

Golden Retrievals (text)

Key West Valentine (wmp) (text)

Bookworm on KCRW, May 2, 1996 (site)

Bookworm on KCRW, July 23, 1998 (site)

Rita Dove

Poets In Person Interview (mp3) (site)

Prairie Home Companion Part 1 (NPR) February 14, 1998 (site)

Chocolate (off-site text)
Ghost Walk
Courtship
The Secret Garden (off-site text)
Pastoral

Prairie Home Companion Part 2 (NPR) February 14, 1998 (site)

Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967
Flirtation (off-site text)
Testimonial

Stephen Dunn

Morning Edition (NPR) December 11, 2000 (site)

Different Hours [start 1:17]
Men in the Sky [start 4:20]

Morning Edition (NPR) October 25, 1996 (site)

After Making Love [start 0:18]
Diminuendo [start 3:50]

Online News Hour (PBS) April 26, 2001 (site)
on winning the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and reading Before the Sky Darkens

Cornelius Eady

I'm A Fool To Love You (text)

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

Russell Edson

The Alfresco Moment (text)

One Lonely Afternoon (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) July 20, 1999 (site)

The Fall (offsite text)
Anti-matter
Counting Sheep (offsite text)
On the Eating of Mice (offsite text)

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (site) (off-site text)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (mp3) (site)
(off-site text)

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (site) (off-site text)

Preludes (site) (off-site text)

The Wasteland (site) (off-site text)

The Waste Land (.au) (text)

I. The Burial of the Dead (text)
II. A Game of Chess (text)
III. The Fire Sermon and IV. Death by Drowning (text)
V. What the Thunder Said (text)

The Waste Land (RA & .au) (site)

I. The Burial of the Dead (off-site text)
II. A Game of Chess (off-site text)
III. The Fire Sermon and IV. Death By Water
(off-site text)
V. What the Thunder Said (off-site text)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Underwear (site)

Counter Balance Poetry Reading (wmp) [download] (site)

All Things Considered (NPR) August 13, 1998 (site)

Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night (site) (off-site text)

Acquainted with the Night (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

After Apple Picking (site) (off-site text)

After Apple Picking (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

After Apple-Picking (site) (off-site text)

After Apple-Picking (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Birches (site) (off-site text)

A Considerable Speck (site) (off-site text)

Etherealizing (site)

Happiness Makes Up in Height (site)

Why Wait for Science (site)

UC of Berkeley, May 8, 1958 Reading (site)

UC of Berkeley, November 8, 1953 Reading (site)

Poetry and Power:
J. F. Kennedy honoring the poet Robert Frost (RA download) (site)

Allen Ginsberg

Howl (site) (off-site text)

Howl (.wav & .aiff) (site) (off-site text)

A Supermarket in California (text)

A Supermarket In California (site) (off-site text)

A Supermarket in California and America (site) (off-site text)

Wired for Book Interview (site)

Louise Gluck

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)

Jorie Graham

Bookworm on KCRW, May 11, 2000 (site)

The Connection (WBUR) December 17, 1999 (site)

PBS Online News Hour, April 12, 1996 (transcript)
Interview Pulitzer Prize

Tennessee June

Donald Hall

Distressed Haiku (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) April 19, 1998 (site)

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

Michael Harper

The Connection (WBUR) February 24, 2000 (site)
on African American poetry

Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass (site) (off-site text)

Those Winter Sundays (site) (off-site text)

Those Winter Sundays (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Michael Heller

A Dialogue of Some Importance (text)

Langston Hughes

I, Too (site) (off-site text)

I, Too (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (text)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (RA download)
(site) (off-site text)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site) (off-site text)

The Negro Speaks of Rivers (site) (off-site text)

The Negro Speaks Of Rivers (RA download & QT download) (site) (off-site text)

Puzzled (site)

Puzzled (RA & mp3) (site)

Randall Jarrell

Bats (site) (off-site text)

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

The Lines (RA download) (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)

Carolyn Kizer

Parent's Pantoum (text)

Stanley Kunitz (former Poet Laureate)

Halley's Comet (text)

The Quarrel (text)

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

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

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)

Flashback (.au) (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"

Robert Lowell

Skunk Hour (site) (off-site text)

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

Poetry Reading (New York, 1963) (site)

Heather McHugh

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)

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

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

William Matthews

The Blues (text)

Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog (text)

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

James Merrill

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

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

W.S. Merwin

Any Time (text)

Before the Flood (text)

My Friends (text)

Remembering (text)

Yesterday (text)

Poets In Person Interview segment (mp3) (site)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is Not All (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)

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)

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)

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)

Marge Piercy

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

Syntax (.wav) (text)

All Things Considered (NPR) Obituary, March 20, 1998 (site)
reading These Images in honor of the first day of spring

Robert Pinsky

ABC (site) (off-site text)

ABC (mp3) (site) (off-site text)

ABC (QT) (site) (off-site text)

Samurai Song (site) (off-site text)

The Want Bone (site) (off-site text)

History of My Heart (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)

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

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 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

Keith Ratzlaff

Ah, (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)

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)

Theodore Roethke

My Papa's Waltz (text)

Muriel Rukeyser

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

Despisals (site) (off-site text)

Poem (RA download) (site)

Sonia Sanchez

[I've been keeping company with the layaway man]
(Set. No. 2) (RA download & QT download) (site)

Anthem (NPR) Callaloo Remembers Sterling Brown,
with Sonia Sanchez (site)

Fresh Air Interview (NPR) March 9, 2000 (site)

Anne Sexton

Her Kind (text)

Her Kind (site) (off-site text)

Music Swims Back to Me (RA dowload) (text)

Said the Poet to the Analyst (RA & mp3) (site) (off-site text)

The Truth The Dead Know (RA & mp3) (site) (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

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)

Charles Simic

Leaving an Unknown City (text)

Riddle (text)

Bookworm on KCRW, September 23, 1999 (site)

William Stafford

First Grade (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

Gerald Stern

The Dancing (text)

Sylvia (site)

All Things Considered (NPR) May 2, 1999 (site)

They Were Both 65

PBS Online Newshour, November 23, 1998, Interview (transcript)

Wallace Stevens

The Idea of Order at Key West (text)

The Idea of Order At Key West (site) (off-site text)

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

Mark Strand

From a Litany (site)

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

James Tate

Restless Leg Syndrome (text)

Dylan Thomas

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)

Quincy Troupe

Skulls Along the River (mp3) (site)

So What (RA & mp3) (site)

Poets & Writers Interview (site)

Rosmarie Waldrop

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1997) (site)

Robert Penn Warren

The Nature of a Mirror (site)

Walt Whitman

America (text) [history of recording]

America (site) (off-site text)

Saul Stacey Williams

Ohm (RA download) (site) (off-site text)

Ohm (QT download) (site) (off-site text)

William Carlos Williams

To Elsie (text)

To Elsie (site) (off-site text)

To Elsie (site) (off-site text)
Real Video (varied imagery) with commentary by Allen Ginsberg

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

Franz Wright

Description of Her Eyes (site) (off-site text)

Homage (site)

Resurrection: Elegy (site)

James Wright

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio (text)

W. B. Yeats

The Second Coming (site) (off-site text)

When You Are Old (site) (off-site text)