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Poets Reading Other Poets

Poets reading other Poets by author

Poets reading other Poets by reader

Richard Bausch reading For the Last Wolverine by James Dickey (site) (off-site text)

Frank Bidart reading As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman (text)

Chana Bloch

After Auschwitz by Yehuda Amichai (text)

I Studied Love by Yehuda Amichai (text)

Ein Yahav by Yehuda Amichai (text)

Yad Mordechai by Yehuda Amichai (text)

A Jewish Cemetery in Germany by Yehuda Amichai (text)

Robert Bly

Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (site)

*****

Steven Cramer reading I cannot live with You by Emily Dickinson (text)

Michael Cunningham reading St. Kevin and the Blackbird by Seamus Heaney (site)

Arna Bontemps

Dawn by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Youth by Langston Hughes (site)

Peter Davison

Birches by Robert Frost (text)

Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (text)

Love Making; April; Middle Age by L. E. Sissman (text)

The Museum of Comparative Zoology by L. E. Sissman (text)

Reluctance read by Peter Davison (text)

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (text)

The Sound of Trees by Robert Frost (text)

Tras Os Montes by L. E. Sissman (text)

The Tree Warden by L. E. Sissman (text)

The Wood-Pile by Robert Frost (text)

*****

Mark Doty reading Sonnet 116 by John Clare (text)

Allan Gurganus reading To Lisby Brown by Thomas Hardy (site)

Allen Ginsberg reading The Brooklyn Bridge Blues by Jack Kerouac (site)

Linda Gregerson reading To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (text)

Edward Hirsh

The Race by Sharon Olds,
on Anthem (site)

Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales by Billy Collins on Anthem (site)

Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell on Anthem (site)

Donald Hall

The Wood Pile by Robert Frost (text)

During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy (text)

Drawing from the Past by Jane Kenyon (text)

Woman, Why are You Weeping by Jane Kenyon (text)

Man Eating by Jane Kenyon (text)

Surprise by Jane Kenyon (text)

*****

Marie Howe reading As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman (text)

Erica Jong reading Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay (site) (off-site text)

Jamaica Kincaid reading I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (site) (off-site text)

Galway Kinnell reading As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life by Walt Whitman (text)

Carolyn Kizer reading I Am by John Clare (text)

Maxime Kumin reading The Wood Pile by Robert Frost (text)

Philip Levine

During Wind and Rain by Thomas Hardy (text)

Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (text)

*****

Sandy Liu reading Between the World and Me by Richard Wright (site) (off-site text)

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reading A New Constellation by Marge Piercy (site) (off-site text)

J.D. McClathcy reading To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (text)

Alice McDermott reading Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay (site) (off-site text)

Heather McHugh reading To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell (text)

Herbert Woodward Martin

The Colored Band by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

Discovered (wav) by Paul Laurence Dunbar (site)
(off-site text)

Douglass by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

The Farm Child's Lullaby by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar (wav) (site)
(off-site text)

In the Morning by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

Little Brown Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

A Negro Love Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar (wav) (site) (off-site text)

Ode To Ethiopia by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

The Poet And His Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

The Sand-Man by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

The Seedling by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

Theology by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

We Wear The Mask by Paul Laurence Dunbar (wav) (site) (off-site text)

When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

When Malindy Sings by Paul Laurence Dunbar (text)

*****

Gail Mazur reading My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson

W.S. Merwin

reading Sonnet 116 by John Clare (text)

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

Canto I
Canto V
Canto XXVI

*****

Sumiya Nowshin reading Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand (site) (off-site text)

Joyce Carol Oates reading Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (site) (off-site text)

Grace Paley reading 1919 by W. B. Yeats (site)

Robert Pinsky

Adam's Curse by William Butler Yeats (wmp) (text)

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy (wmp) (text)

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy (site)

Directive by Robert Frost (site) (off-site text)

Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowper (wmp) (text)

God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins (text)

The Horses by Edwin Muir (wmp) (text)

I Am by John Clare (wmp) (text)

Incantation by Czeslaw Milosz (site)
(off-site 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)

Legacy by Frank Bidart (site) (off-site text)

Love Song by William Carlos Williams (wmp) (text)

My Beard by Shel Silverstein

My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson (wmp) (text)

My Picture Left in Scotland by Ben Jonson (site)
(off-site text)

The Pleasures of Merely Circulating by Wallace Stevens (wmp) (text)

Pot Roast by Mark Strand

A Question Answered by William Blake (wmp) (text)

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden (wmp) (text)

The Turtle (wmp) (For My Grandson) by William Carlos Williams (wmp) (text)

To Elsie by William Carlos Williams (site) (off-site text)

To a Friend, on Her Examination for the Doctorate in English by J.V. Cunningham (text)

What Work Is by Phillip Levine

Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

Child by Sylvia Plath and The Gift by Louise Gluck for Mother's Day

St. Patrick's Day Poem, PBS Online News Hour, March 17, 1998 (text)

Last Fruit off an Old Tree by Walter Savage Landor (text)

Sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop (text)

*****

Stanley Plumly reading This Lime-tree Bower My Prison by Samuel Coleridge (text)

Francine Prose reading In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop (site) (off-site text)

Mary Jo Salter reading When I Was Fair and Young by Elizabeth I (site) (off-site text)

Mary Jo Salter reading I cannot live with You by Emily Dickinson (text)

Mark Strand reading Sonnet by Elizabeth Bishop (text)

Kiyani Whitfield reading Ego-Tripping: There May Be a Reason Why by Nikki Giovanni (site) (off-site text)

Richard Wilbur reading Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (text)

The Favorite Poem Project (New York) April 8, 1999 (site)

Introduction by Bill Wadsworth
Robert Pinsky talks about the Favorite Poetry Project
Richard Bausch reading For the Last Wolverine by James Dickey (off-site text)
Michael Cunningham reading St. Kevin and the Blackbird by Seamus Heaney
Allan Gurganus reading To Lisby Brown by Thomas Hardy
Erica Jong reading Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay (off-site text)
Robert Pinsky introduces student readers
Sandy Liu reading Between the World and Me by Richard Wright (off-site text)
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy reading A New Constellation by Marge Piercy (off-site text)
Jamaica Kincaid reading I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth (site) (off-site text)
Alice McDermott reading Dirge Without Music by Edna St. Vincent Millay (off-site text)
Robert Pinsky introduces student readers
Sumiya Nowshin reading Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand (off-site text)
Kiyani Whitfield reading Ego-Tripping: There May Be a Reason Why by Nikki Giovanni (off-site text)
Joyce Carol Oates reading Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (off-site text)
Grace Paley reading 1919 by W. B. Yeats
Francine Prose reading In the Waiting Room by Elizabeth Bishop (off-site text)
Robert Pinsky reading Incantation by Czeslaw Milosz (off-site text)

Poets Reading other Poets by author

Yehuda Amichai

After Auschwitz read by Chana Block (text)

I Studied Love read by Chana Block (text)

Ein Yahav read by Chana Block (text)

Yad Mordechai read by Chana Block (text)

A Jewish Cemetery in Germany read by Chana Block (text)

Frank Bidart

Legacy read by Robert Pinsky (site) (off-site text)

Elizabeth Bishop

In the Waiting Room read by Francine Prose (site)
(off-site text)

Sonnet read by Robert Pinsky (text)

Sonnet read by Mark Strand (text)

William Blake

A Question Answered read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

John Clare

I Am read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Samuel Coleridge

This Lime-tree Bower My Prison read by Stanley Plumly (text)

William Cowper

Epitaph on a Hare read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Billy Collins

Sunday Morning with the Sensational Nightingales read by Edward Hirsh on Anthem (site)

J.V. Cunningham

To a Friend, on Her Examination for the Doctorate in English read by Robert Pinsky (text)

Dante

WS Merwin reading his translation of Purgatorio,
July 20, 2000 (site)

Canto I
Canto V
Canto XXVI

Robert Pinsky reading from his translation of
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)

Emily Dickinson

I cannot live with You read by Steven Cramer (text)

I cannot live with You read by Mary Jo Salter (text)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Colored Band read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

Dawn by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Youth by Langston Hughes (site)

Douglass read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

Discovered (wav) by Herbert Woodward Martin (site)
(off-site text)

The Farm Child's Lullaby read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

He Had His Dream read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar (wav) (site)
(off-site text)

In the Morning read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

Little Brown Baby read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

A Negro Love Song read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

A Negro Love Song read by Herbert Woodward Martin (wav) (site) (off-site text)

Ode To Ethiopia read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

The Poet read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

The Poet And His Song read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

The Sand-Man read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

The Seedling read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

Theology read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

We Wear The Mask read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

We Wear The Mask read by Herbert Woodward Martin (wav) (site) (off-site text)

When Dey 'Listed Colored Soldiers read by Herbert Woodward Martin read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

When Malindy Sings read by Herbert Woodward Martin (text)

James Dickey

For the Last Wolverine read by Richard Bausch (site)
(off-site text)

Elizabeth I

When I Was Fair and Young read by Mary Jo Salter (site) (off-site text)

Nikki Giovanni

Ego-Tripping: There May Be a Reason Why read by Kiyani Whitfield (site) (off-site text)

Robert Frost

Birches read by Peter Davison (text)

Directive read by Robert Pinsky (site) (off-site text)

The Road Not Taken read by Peter Davison (text)

Reluctance read by Peter Davison (text)

The Sound of Trees read by Peter Davison (text)

The Wood-Pile read by Peter Davison (text)

The Wood Pile read by Maxime Kumin (text)

The Wood Pile read by Donald Hall (text)

Louise Gluck

Child by Sylvia Plath read by Robert Pinsky and The Gift by Louise Gluck read by Robert Pinsky for Mother's Day

Thomas Hardy

During Wind and Rain read by Philip Levine (text)

During Wind and Rain read by Donald Hall (text)

The Darkling Thrush read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

The Darkling Thrush read by Robert Pinsky (RA link on html)

To Lisby Brown read by Allan Gurganus (site)

Robert Hayden

Frederick Douglass read by Robert Pinsky

Those Winter Sundays read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Seamus Heaney

St. Kevin and the Blackbird read by Michael Cunningham (site)

Gerard Manley Hopkins

God's Grandeur read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Langston Hughes

Dawn by Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Youth by Langston Hughes (site)

Ben Jonson

My Picture Left in Scotland read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

My Picture Left in Scotland read by Gail Mazur (site)

Jane Kenyon

Woman, Why are You Weeping read by Donald Hall (text)

Drawing from the Past read by Donald Hall (text)

Surprise read by Donald Hall (text)

Man Eating read by Donald Hall (text)

Jack Kerouac

The Brooklyn Bridge Blues read by Allen Ginsberg (site)

Galway Kinnell

Saint Francis and the Sow read by Edward Hirsh on Anthem (site)

Walter Savage Landor

Last Fruit off an Old Tree read by Robert Pinsky

Phillip Levine

reading What Work Is read by Robert Pinsky

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress read by Heather McHugh (text)

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dirge Without Music read by Alice McDermott (site)
(off-site text)

Renascence read by Erica Jong (site) (off-site text)

Czeslaw Milosz

Incantation read by Robert Pinsky (site) (off-site text)

Edwin Muir

The Horses read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Sharon Olds

The Race read by Edward Hirsh on Anthem (site)

St. Patrick's Day poem

St. Patrick's Day Poem, PBS Online News Hour, March 17, 1998 read by Robert Pinsky (text)

Marge Piercy

A New Constellation read by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy (site)
(off-site text)

Sylvia Plath

Child by Sylvia Plath and The Gift by Louise Gluck read by Robert Pinsky for Mother's Day

Shel Silverstein

My Beard read by Robert Pinsky

L. E. Sissman

Love Making; April; Middle Age read by Peter Davison (text)

The Museum of Comparative Zoology read by Peter Davison (text)

Tras Os Montes read by Peter Davison (text)

The Tree Warden read by Peter Davison (text)

Christopher Smart

Jubilate Agno read by Joyce Carol Oates (site)
(off-site text)

Wallace Stevens

The Pleasures of Merely Circulating read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Mark Strand

Keeping Things Whole read by Sumiya Nowshin (site)
(off-site text)

Pot Roast read by Robert Pinsky

Walt Whitman

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life read by Frank Bidart (text)

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life read by Marie Howe (text)

As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life read by Galway Kinnell (text)

William Carlos Williams

Love Song read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

To Elsie read by Robert Pinsky (site) (off-site text)

The Turtle (wmp) (For My Grandson) read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

William Wordsworth

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud read by Jamaica Kincaid (site) (off-site text)

Richard Wright

Between the World and Me read by Sandy Liu (site)
(off-site text)

W. B. Yeats

1919 read by Grace Paley (site)

Adam's Curse read by Robert Pinsky (wmp) (text)

Easter 1916 by William Butler Yeats (text)

Easter 1916 read by Philip Levine (text)

Easter 1916 read by Richard Wilbur (text)