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Jun 24, 2009

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Recordings of poet William Carlos Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1942, New York, NY, and May 5, 1945, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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Jun 24, 2009

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Titles in the series (79)

Listen to Donald Hall's selection of classic American poets reading from their work. These recordings are being made available as the result of a collaboration between US and UK poet laureates Donald Hall and Andrew Motion.

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Jean Valentine: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Jean Valentine, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Yusef Komunyakaa: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Yusef Komunyakaa, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded April 5, 2007, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Philip Levine: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Elizabeth Bishop: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of former poet laureate Elizabeth Bishop, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in New York City in 1947 and at the Library of Congress in 1974. by Essential American Poets
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David Wagoner: Essential American Poets: Recordings of David Wagoner, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, in Seattle. by Essential American Poets
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C.K. Williams: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet C.K. Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded May 16, 2007, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Theodore Roethke: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of Theodore Roethke, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1950s, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, NY. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. by Essential American Poets
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Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of former poet laureate Brooks, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded January 19, 1961, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. by Essential American Poets
12 min listen
Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Rodney Jones, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded March 1, 2008, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
11 min listen
Maxine Kumin: Essential American Poets: Recordings of former poet laureate Maxine Kumin, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 27, 2007, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
7 min listen
Galway Kinnell: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Galway Kinnell, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 19, 2007, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
13 min listen
Li-Young Lee: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Li-Young Lee, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded March 3, 2008, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
18 min listen
Kay Ryan: Essential American Poets: Recordings of current poet laureate Kay Ryan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 11, 2007, in studio, San Francisco, CA. by Essential American Poets
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Heather McHugh: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Heather McHugh, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded September 21, 2007, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
11 min listen
Ted Kooser: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Ted Kooser, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded July 10, 2007, Lincoln, NE. by Essential American Poets
17 min listen
Hayden Carruth: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of Hayden Carruth, with an introduction to his life and work. All recordings are from Hayden Carruth: A Listener’s Guide. Copper Canyon Press, 1999. by Essential American Poets
10 min listen
Yvor Winters: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Yvor Winters, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded July 2, 1945, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. by Essential American Poets
13 min listen
Kenneth Koch: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Kenneth Koch, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1960 and 1976, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
22 min listen
Thomas McGrath: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Thomas McGrath, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1960, KPFK Radio, Los Angeles, CA. by Essential American Poets
13 min listen
J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of J. V. Cunningham, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1958, Cambridge Massachusetts, and 1968, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. by Essential American Poets
10 min listen
Charles Wright: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Charles Wright, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 2008, in studio, Charlottesville, Virginia. by Essential American Poets
10 min listen
William Carlos Williams: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet William Carlos Williams, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1942, New York, NY, and May 5, 1945, Recording Laboratory, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
10 min listen
Marilyn Hacker: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Marilyn Hacker, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded February 28, 2007, in studio, Atlanta, GA. by Essential American Poets
20 min listen
Mark Strand: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Mark Strand, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
10 min listen
Carolyn Forché: Essential American Poets: Recordings of the poet Carolyn Forché, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2008, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
14 min listen
Anne Sexton: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Anne Sexton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1960. by Essential American Poets
29 min listen
Robert Hass: Essential American Poets: Recordings of Robert Hass, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2007, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
17 min listen
Linda Gregg: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Linda Gregg, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2008, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
11 min listen
Howard Nemerov: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Howard Nemerov, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1962 and 1964, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
15 min listen
W.D. Snodgrass: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet W. D. Snodgrass, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1963, Library of Congress, Washington DC, and 2007, Baldwinsville, NY. by Essential American Poets
16 min listen

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Richard Hugo: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Richard Hugo, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1975, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Robert Pinsky: Essential American Poets: Recordings of former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 2007, in studio, Boston, MA. by Essential American Poets
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Michael Palmer: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Michael Palmer, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1995 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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A.R. Ammons: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet A.R. Ammons, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1963 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Jorie Graham: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Jorie Graham, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1995 and 1998 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Robinson Jeffers, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1941 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Carolyn Kizer, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1958 and 1973 in Seattle, WA, and at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Muriel Rukeyser: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Muriel Rukeyser, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1962 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Robert Creeley: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Robert Creeley, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1961, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Lucille Clifton: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of poet Lucille Clifton, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 1973 and 1989 at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Mona Van Duyn: Essential American Poets: Archival Recordings of former poet laureate poet Mona Van Duyn, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded in 1966. by Essential American Poets
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Kenneth Rexroth: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Kenneth Rexroth, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded October 25, 1965, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Louis Simpson: Essential American Poets: Recordings of poet Louis Simpson, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1959 and 1966, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Wallace Stevens: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Wallace Stevens, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1954, YMHA Poetry Center, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Thylias Moss: Essential American Poets: Recordings of the poet Thylias Moss, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2007, in studio, WBEZ, Chicago. by Essential American Poets
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Stanley Kunitz: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of former poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2001, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Robert Hayden: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Robert Hayden, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1968 and 1977, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Robert Bly: Essential American Poets: Recordings of the poet Robert Bly, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, in studio, New York, NY. by Essential American Poets
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Conrad Aiken: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of Conrad Aiken reading his poems, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1959, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Denise Levertov: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Denise Levertov, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 1976, Library of Congress, Washington DC. by Essential American Poets
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Anthony Hecht: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Anthony Hecht, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at Harvard University. by Essential American Poets
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Allen Tate: Essential American Poets: Archival recordings of the poet Allen Tate, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1947, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. by Essential American Poets
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Billy Collins: Essential American Poets: Recordings of the poet Billy Collins, with an introduction to his life and work. by Essential American Poets
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Sharon Olds: Essential American Poets: Recordings of the poet Sharon Olds, with an introduction to her life and work. by Essential American Poets
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