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Poetry Readings

[ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ]

Ammiel Alcalay

UC San Diego, 2001 Reading (site)

Elizabeth Alexander

Lunch Poems Reading at UC Berkeley (site)

Bruce Andrews

Whitney Museum reading (site)
Crease

Rae Armantrout

Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1998) (site)

W. H. Auden

92nd St. Y's Poetry Center reading (1972) (site)

The Aliens
A New Year Greeting
Epistle to a Godson
Lines to Dr. Berk on the Occasion of His Retiring From General Practice
Friday's Child
IV. Autumn Song (from Twelve Songs) (off-site text)
The Fall of Rome (off-site text)
A Walk After Dark (off-site text)
Song of the Devil
Metalogue to The Magic Flute
Talking to Dogs
Talking to Mice
Talking to Myself

Poetry Reading New York (1964) (site)
Introduction by Marianne Moore

Jimmy Santiago Baca

Poetry reading (site)

Michael Basinski

Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1999 (site)

Poetry Reading, Buffalo, 1997 (site)

Marvin Bell

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

Ted Berrigan

Memorial Day Reading (site)
with Anne Waldman

Poetry Reading (1981) (site)

Wendell Berry

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Jayber Crow

John Berryman

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Charles Bernstein

Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)

Cortland Review Interview (site)

Introduction by David Lehman
A Defense of Poetry
Ruminative Ablution
Poem Composed for Jackson Mac Low...
Thinking I Think I Think
An Affirmation
Make it Snappy & That's Final
from Every Which Way but Loose
Hoods and Scatters
The Boy Soprano
Laurel's Eyes
Death is the Cool Night
dew and die
The Impunity of Garden Flowers
Like This

Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge

Poetry Reading (Reed College, 1991) (site)

Robin Blaser

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1987) (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)

Christian Bok

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 2001) (site)

Michael Boughn

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1986)  (site)

Neil Bowers

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Loose Ends

Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Lucille Clifton

Poetry Reading (New York, 1983) (site)

Poetry Reading (Unknown Recording) (site)

Stephen Cope

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1998) (site)

Gregory Corso

Naropa University reading (1987) (site)
reading selected poems from Gasoline, Long Live Man, and The Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit.
(with introduction by Allen Ginsberg)

Robert Creeley

UC of Berkeley, May 11, 1976 Interview/Reading
(some poor quality) (site)

Evening of Poetry SUNY Buffalo (site)

Kelly Writer's House Reading (site)

Poetry Reading (Helsinki, 1989. Taped intro by Anselm Hollo) (site)

Poetry Reading (NYC, 1966) (site)
Intro by Ed Sanders

WBFO Reading (RA download) (site)

Ed Dorn

Poetry reading (Buffalo, 1974) (site)

Reading and discussion of Gunslinger (Buffalo, 1974) (site)

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)

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

Robert Duncan

Poetry Reading--preamble (Buffalo, 1982) (site)

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1982) (site)

Reading and Discussion of his work (Unknown Recording) (site)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Live at the Writers House (site)

Draft IXX: Working Conditions
Draft XXV: [????]

Lynn Emanuel

Wired for Books Reading 2001 [47:51] (site)
reading at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

Ben Friedlander

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1997) (site)

Suny Buffalo EPC Interview/Reading (1995)
(RA & RA download) (site)

Robert Frost

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

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

University of Iowa Reading (site)

Heather Fuller

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1998) (site)

Forrest Gander

Poetry Reading (SFSU, 1996) (site)

Regie Gibson

PoetryPoetry reading (m3u & mp3) (site)

Introduction
 
Unclothed
 
Mississippi 66
 
 
In the Year I Loved Your Mother
Warehouse
The Moon
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep
Rosita Mae
 
Unclothed
 
 
 
In the Year I Loved Your Mother
Warehouse
The Moon
I Will Not Know You Until I Have Watched You Sleep
 
Rosita Mae

Allen Ginsberg

92nd Street Y Reading, February 28, 1997 (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

Dia Center Reading, December 9, 2000 (site)

Thom Gunn

reading from his book Boss Cupid (site)

A Home, intro (site)
A Home (site)
In the Post Office, intro (site)
In the Post Office (site)
Famous Friends, intro (site)
Famous Friends (site)
7 a.m. in the bar, intro (site)
7 a.m. in the bar (site)
Convergence, intro (site)
Convergence (site)
Nights With the Speed Bros. (site)
Painting by Vuillard, intro (site) (off-site text)
Painting by Vuillard (site)
Office Hours, intro (site)
Office Hours (site)

Donald Hall

Prairie Home Companion Part 1 (NPR) April 26, 1997 (site)
reading Spring Glen School

Prairie Home Companion Part 2 (NPR) April 26, 1997 (site)
reading Baseball

Seamus Heaney

Farrar Straus Giroux reading (site)

Source (by Ted Hughes)
Keeping Going
The Strand

Richard Howard

92 Street Y Reading, January 10, 2000 (site)

Dorothea Tannings "Cousins" (off-site text)
Disclaimers (off-site text)
Family Values I
Family Values II
Family Values III
Among the Missing
At 65

Fanny Howe

UC Berkeley, December 7, 2000 (site)
reading with Mark Levine, & Carol Snow

Susan Howe

Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)

Langston Hughes

New York Times Reading (site)

One Way Ticket
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (off-site text)
Trumpet Player (off-site text)
Ballad of the Gypsy
Kid Sleepy
Puzzled
Southern Mammy Songs

Randall Jarrell

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

Ha Jin

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

Ted Joans

UC Berkeley Reading, February 2, 2000 (site)

June Jordan

Kelly Writer's House Reading (site)

Yusef Komunyakaa

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

James Laughlin

PoetryPoetry Reading (m3u) (site)

Timothy Liu

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

Robert Lowell

Poetry Reading (New York, 1963) (site)

Nathaniel Mackey

Poetry Reading (Boulder, 1991) (site)

Jackson Mac Low

Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (site)

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

Christopher Merrill

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

James Merrill

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

W.S. Merwin

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)

Czeslaw Milosz

UC Berkeley Reading, February 3, 2000 (site)

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

Introduction
Reading

Marianne Moore

Poetry Reading (Harvard, date unknown) (site)

Tracie Morris

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

Jennifer Moxley

Poetry Reading (SUNY Buffalo, 1997) (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)

George Oppen

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

Robert Pinsky

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)

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)

Stanley Plumly

Live From Prairie Lights Reading (site)
poems from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me

Keith Ratzlaff

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)

Martha Ronk

Poetry Reading (San Diego, 1999) (site)

Ron Silliman

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)

Patti Smith

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)

Gary Snyder

Poetry Reading UC Berkeley, March 12, 1987 (site)

Edwin Torres

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)

Anne Waldman

Naropa University reading (site)

Derek Walcott

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

Rosmarie Waldrop

Poetry Reading (Buffalo, 1997) (site)

Shawn Walker

Kelly Writers House Reading (site)

Tennessee Williams

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

William Carlos Williams

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

Charles Wright

Dia Center Reading, December 9, 2000 (site)

Louis Zukofsky

Poetry Reading (KPFA, Berkeley. August, 1954) (site)

Poetry Reading (site)
and conversation with Hugh Kenner