Poetry Audio

  • "The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery"

    The award-winning poet reads "Memories of Imperialism" and "The Underwriters."
    January 8, 2003

  • "Letters to Wendy's" by Joe Wenderoth

    Today I had a Biggie. Usually I just have a small and refill -- why pay more? But today I needed a Biggie inside me. Some days, I guess, are like that.
    November 26, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 11

    On this final installment, the Welsh poet reads from "Adventures in the Skin Trade."
    September 20, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 10

    This installment includes excerpts from Thomas' "Under Milkwood," a full-cast production of "Return Journey to Swansea" and more.
    September 18, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 8

    The Welsh poet reads from the works of Shakespeare and from Milton's "Paradise Lost."
    September 3, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 7

    Thomas reads poems by Robert Graves, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louise Bogan and others.
    August 19, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 6

    The great Welsh poet reads stories by Djuna Barnes and Sean O'Casey, and poems by Yeats and others.
    July 25, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 5

    The fifth installment in this collection features Dylan Thomas introducing and reading works by W.H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats and other poets.
    June 17, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 4

    This fourth installment features Dylan Thomas and Edith Sitwell discussing and reading Sitwell's poems, as well as various authors reading drafts of Thomas' "Over Sir John's Hill."
    June 8, 2002

  • "The People, Yes"

    Carl Sandburg reads his ode to the American people in this 1950s recording from his collection of poetry.
    May 6, 2002

  • Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes

    Listen to Hughes read three poems, including the famed "Harlem."
    April 29, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 2

    Download an hour of recordings including the poem "If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love" and the story "In Country Sleep."
    April 24, 2002

  • The Voice of the Poet: Wallace Stevens

    Listen to a rare recording of Stevens reading his poems "To the One of Fictive Music" and "Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself."
    April 22, 2002

  • Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection

    Download and listen to the entire Dylan Thomas CD "A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems," with a new introduction by Poet Laureate Billy Collins.
    April 10, 2002

  • "The Voice of the Poet: Adrienne Rich"

    Hear Rich read a group of poems called "What Kind of Times Are These," available on the latest release of the Voice of the Poet series edited by J.D. McClatchy.
    April 4, 2002

  • "Morning Poem #40"

    New York writer and performance artist Wanda Phipps reads one of her poems set to music by Joel Schlemowitz.
    February 23, 2002

  • "next to of course god america i"

    Hear a rare recording of e.e. cummings reading this famous piece and three other poems.
    January 14, 2002

  • "The Voice of the Poet"

    Listen to rare recordings of "The Fish," "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop.
    November 27, 2001

  • The poet's voice

    Listen to rare recordings of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading her poems.
    September 6, 2001

  • Rain Mirror

    Michael McClure, beat poet, Obie Award-winning playwright and co-writer of the Janis Joplin hit "Mercedes Benz," reads from his book of poems.
    June 18, 2001

  • The untalented Mr. Childish

    Billy Childish takes on the art establishment in a rambling spoken-word performance aptly titled "Crimes of the Future."
    May 23, 2001

  • William Blake

    National Poetry Month on Salon Audio: Listen to William Blake's poem "The Garden of Love."
    April 11, 2001

  • "Your One Good Dress"

    Critically acclaimed young writer Brenda Shaughnessy reads two poems from her first book, "Interior With Sudden Joy."
    By Brenda Shaughnessy April 5, 2001

  • "Burnt Norton"

    T.S. Eliot reads the first part of his famed work "Four Quartets"
    March 22, 2001

  • "On the Decline of Oracles"

    Hear two archival recordings of Sylvia Plath reading her poems "Mushrooms" and "On the Decline of Oracles."
    By Sylvia Plath March 19, 2001
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