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"The Voice of the Poet: John Ashbery"
The award-winning poet reads "Memories of Imperialism" and "The Underwriters."
Jan 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.
Nov 26, 2002
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 11
On this final installment, the Welsh poet reads from "Adventures in the Skin Trade."
Sep 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.
Sep 18, 2002
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 8
The Welsh poet reads from the works of Shakespeare and from Milton's "Paradise Lost."
Sep 3, 2002
Dylan Thomas: The Caedmon Collection, Part 7
Thomas reads poems by Robert Graves, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Louise Bogan and others.
Aug 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.
Jul 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.
Jun 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."
Jun 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."
Apr 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."
Apr 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."
Apr 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.
Apr 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.
Apr 4, 2002
"Morning Poem #40"
New York writer and performance artist Wanda Phipps reads one of her poems set to music by Joel Schlemowitz.
Feb 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.
Jan 14, 2002
"The Voice of the Poet"
Listen to rare recordings of "The Fish," "In the Waiting Room" and "The Moose" by Elizabeth Bishop.
Nov 27, 2001
The poet's voice
Listen to rare recordings of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading her poems.
Sep 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.
Jun 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."
Apr 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 Apr 5, 2001
"Burnt Norton"
T.S. Eliot reads the first part of his famed work "Four Quartets"
Mar 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 Mar 19, 2001
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