In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry

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I Knew a Woman Theodore Roethke

01:47

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Elegy for Jane Theodore Roethke

01:13

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Rough Stephen Spender

00:53

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Thoughts During an Air Raid Stephen Spender

01:33

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My Sisters, O My Sisters May Sarton

02:57

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In Our Time Muriel Rukeyser

00:22

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Despisals Muriel Rukeyser

01:35

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The Ballad of Orange and Grape Muriel Rukeyser

02:45

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The world is so difficult to give up... David Ignatow

00:24

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This is the solution to be happy with slaughter... David Ignatow

00:19

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Here i am with mike in hand, shoothing down the rapids... David Ignatow

00:38

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I killed a fly... David Ignatow

00:29

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What about dying?... David Ignatow

00:51

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Scars William Stafford

00:44

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It Is William Stafford

00:41

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas

01:38

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If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love Dylan Thomas

03:17

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Happiness John Ciardi

01:48

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The Old Flame Robert Lowell

02:00

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Skunk Hour Robert Lowell

02:25

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Epilogue Robert Lowell

01:26

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Crossing Over William Meredith

02:16

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See it was like this when... Lawrence Ferlinghetti

00:42

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24.

Underwear Lawrence Ferlinghetti

03:33

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The Secret of My Endurance Charles Bukowski

02:17

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Thanksgiving Howard Nemerov

01:28

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Sonnet for Minimalists Mona Van Duyn

00:43

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Shame Richard Wilbur

01:49

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Apology Richard Wilbur

00:37

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Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Richard Wilbur

01:54

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American Haikus (Excerpt) Jack Kerouac

06:09

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Monet Refuses the Operation Lisel Mueller

02:29

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America Allen Ginsberg

08:45

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Song John Ashbery

01:27

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After Making Love, We Hear Footsteps Galway Kinnell

01:29

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Last Gods Galway Kinnell

02:00

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America Walt Whitman

00:38

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2.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats

01:09

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The Song of the Old Mother William Butler Yeats

00:52

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The Road Not Taken Robert Frost

01:04

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Birches Robert Frost

03:03

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The Gift Outright Robert Frost

00:53

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If I Had Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso Gertrude Stein

03:37

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So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch Wallace Stevens

02:10

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The Red Wheelbarrow William Carlos Williams

00:16

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To Elsie William Carlos Williams

02:33

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Hugh Selwyn Mauberley Ezra Pound

04:57

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12.

Bird-Witted Marianne Moore

02:16

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Recuerdo Edna St. Vincent Millay

01:27

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Love Is Not All Edna St. Vincent Millay

01:12

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next of course god america E. E. Cummings

01:00

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anyone lived in a pretty how town E. E. Cummings

03:40

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To Juan at the Winter Solstace Robert Graves

02:21

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The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg Stephen Vincent Benét

03:50

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The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes

00:50

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Ballad of the Gypsy Langston Hughes

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Mulatto Langston Hughes

01:38

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Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man Ogden Nash

02:04

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Love Recognized Robert Penn Warren

01:15

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King of the River Stanley Kunitz

03:21

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In Memory of W.B.Yeats (Part 1) W. H. Auden

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The River Bees W.S. Merwin

01:18

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A Blessing James Wright

01:49

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The Truth the Dead Know Anne Sexton

01:41

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All My Pretty Ones Anne Sexton

03:27

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Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou

02:06

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Even in Paris Richard Howard

06:28

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Diving Into the Wreck Adrienne Rich

04:02

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Omeros (excerpt) Derek Walcott

03:01

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The Song of the Taste Gary Snyder

00:58

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10.

How Poetry Comes to Me Gary Snyder

00:17

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Why I Take Good Care of My Macintosh Computer Gary Snyder

01:29

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Daddy Sylvia Plath

03:41

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Ariel Sylvia Plath

01:02

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The Greatest Poem in the World David Ray

01:20

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An Oddly Loving Day Alone John Updike

02:09

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16.

Learning About Easter and Passover Dan Jaffe

02:09

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Bang, Bang Outishly Amiri Baraka

01:28

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18.

Rhythim Blues Amiri Baraka

00:23

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Shazam Doowah Amiri Baraka

00:50

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The Story of Issac Leonard Cohen

03:36

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Dahomey Audre Lorde

02:08

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Putting the Good Things Away Marge Piercy

03:02

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Right to Life Marge Piercy

04:08

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Keeping Things Whole Mark Strand

00:29

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The Way It Is Mark Strand

03:03

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The Poem Mark Strand

02:30

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Zimmer Imagines Heaven Paul Zimmer

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yes Lord, he was born... Lucille Clifton

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cruelty Lucille Clifton

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I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face Diane Wakoski

06:43

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Dear John, Dear Coltrane Michael S. Harper

02:34

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We were so poor... Charles Simic

00:30

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I was stolen by the gypsies... Charles Simic

00:36

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Everybody knows the story... Charles Simic

00:40

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Lester Leaps In Al Young

01:08

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For Poets Al Young

00:41

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A Dance for Militant Diletantes Al Young

01:29

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Odysseus to Telemachus Иосиф Бродский

01:40

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Ode to My Shoes Erica Jong

01:53

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Prayer Joseph Bruchac

00:31

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Translator's Son Joseph Bruchac

00:44

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Wonder Sharon Olds

01:38

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The Lost Pilot James Tate

01:56

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One Kiss Tess Gallagher

01:55

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The Tent People of Beverly Hills James Ragan

02:49

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Uh Oh Plutonium Anne Waldman

03:13

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The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer Adrian Louis

01:29

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The Sweat Lodge Adrian Louis

01:08

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Logan Heights and the World Juan Felipe Herrera

04:35

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The Colonel Carolyn Forché

02:43

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Wild Gratitude Edward Hirsch

02:55

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For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash Joy Harjo

04:15

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Tia Sophia Carmen Tafolla

03:11

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This Is Number 26 Jimmy Santiago Baca

01:25

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I Am Offering You This Poem Jimmy Santiago Baca

01:21

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27.

Parsley Rita Dove

04:14

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Raisin Eyes Luci Tapahonso

01:42

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The Children's Undercroft Donald Revell

01:59

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The Concrete River Luis J. Rodriguez

03:34

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Tia Chucha Luis J. Rodriguez

01:49

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My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Aloud Li-Young Lee

02:26

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