Essential American Poets

Poetry Foundation

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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79 episodes
Updated Mar 14, 2012

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Apr 28, 2010 · 13 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Apr 14, 2010 · 11 min
E.E. Cummings: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet E.E. Cummings, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the YMHA Poetry Center New York, NY in 1959.
Mar 31, 2010 · 15 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Mar 3, 2010 · 14 min
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.
Feb 17, 2010 · 29 min
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.
Feb 3, 2010 · 10 min
Weldon Kees: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet Weldon Kees, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in Berkeley, California in 1952. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Jan 21, 2010 · 19 min
James Schuyler: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet James Schuyler, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Chelsea Hotel in New York in 1986, and at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Jan 6, 2010 · 12 min
William Stafford: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet William Stafford, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1970 and 1978, Library of Congress. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Dec 30, 2009 · 22 min
John Ashbery: Essential American Poets
Recordings of John Ashbery, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, New York, NY. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Dec 10, 2009 · 16 min
Robert Hass: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Robert Hass, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2007, New York, NY. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Dec 1, 2009 · 22 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Nov 11, 2009 · 10 min
Mark Strand: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Mark Strand, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2008, New York, NY. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Oct 28, 2009 · 8 min
James Tate: Essential American Poets
Archival recordings of poet James Tate, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1976. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Oct 14, 2009 · 14 min
Gerald Stern: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Gerald Stern, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in New York, NY and Austin, TX. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Oct 8, 2009 · 9 min
Louise Bogan: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Louise Bogan, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1968. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Sep 16, 2009 · 13 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Sep 2, 2009 · 18 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.
Aug 20, 2009 · 16 min
Amy Clampitt: Essential American Poets
Recordings of poet Amy Clampitt, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 1988, at the Library of Congress.
Aug 5, 2009 · 17 min
Philip Levine: Essential American Poets
Recordings of Philip Levine, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded September 13, 2007, New York, NY.
Jul 22, 2009 · 9 min
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. Need a transcript of this episode? Request a transcript here.

Essential American Poets

Thomas McGrath: Essential American Poets

E.E. Cummings: Essential American Poets

W.D. Snodgrass: Essential American Poets

Howard Nemerov: Essential American Poets

Anne Sexton: Essential American Poets

Weldon Kees: Essential American Poets

James Schuyler: Essential American Poets

William Stafford: Essential American Poets

John Ashbery: Essential American Poets

Robert Hass: Essential American Poets

Kenneth Koch: Essential American Poets

Mark Strand: Essential American Poets

James Tate: Essential American Poets

Gerald Stern: Essential American Poets

Louise Bogan: Essential American Poets

Yvor Winters: Essential American Poets

Li-Young Lee: Essential American Poets

Amy Clampitt: Essential American Poets

Philip Levine: Essential American Poets

J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets