Essential American Poets
Poetry FoundationListen 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.
Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets
Mar 14, 2012 • 15m
Gertrude Stein: Essential American Poets
Jan 25, 2012 • 17m
Charles Simic: Essential American Poets
Jan 4, 2012 • 11m
Alan Dugan: Essential American Poets
Dec 14, 2011
Gary Snyder: Essential American Poets
Nov 30, 2011 • 22m
Adrienne Rich: Essential American Poets
Sep 8, 2011
Richard Hugo: Essential American Poets
Aug 24, 2011
Robert Pinsky: Essential American Poets
Aug 10, 2011
Michael Palmer: Essential American Poets
Jul 27, 2011 • 10m
A.R. Ammons: Essential American Poets
Jul 13, 2011 • 9m
Jorie Graham: Essential American Poets
Jun 29, 2011 • 19m
Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets
Jun 15, 2011 • 16m
Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets
Jun 1, 2011
Muriel Rukeyser: Essential American Poets
May 19, 2011 • 32m
Robert Creeley: Essential American Poets
May 3, 2011 • 12m
Lucille Clifton: Essential American Poets
Apr 13, 2011
Mona Van Duyn: Essential American Poets
Mar 30, 2011 • 17m
Kenneth Rexroth: Essential American Poets
Mar 16, 2011
Louis Simpson: Essential American Poets
Mar 2, 2011 • 10m
Wallace Stevens: Essential American Poets
Feb 16, 2011
Thylias Moss: Essential American Poets
Feb 2, 2011 • 25m
Stanley Kunitz: Essential American Poets
Jan 19, 2011
Robert Hayden: Essential American Poets
Jan 5, 2011
Robert Bly: Essential American Poets
Dec 22, 2010
Conrad Aiken: Essential American Poets
Dec 8, 2010
Denise Levertov: Essential American Poets
Nov 24, 2010 • 12m
Anthony Hecht: Essential American Poets
Nov 10, 2010
Allen Tate: Essential American Poets
Oct 27, 2010 • 11m
Billy Collins: Essential American Poets
Oct 13, 2010
Sharon Olds: Essential American Poets
Sep 29, 2010 • 10m
Carl Sandburg: Essential American Poets
Sep 15, 2010
Josephine Miles: Essential American Poets
Sep 1, 2010
William Matthews: Essential American Poets
Aug 18, 2010
George Oppen: Essential American Poets
Aug 9, 2010
Carolyn Forché: Essential American Poets
Jul 21, 2010
Delmore Schwartz: Essential American Poets
Jul 7, 2010
Jane Kenyon: Essential American Poets
Jun 24, 2010 • 9m
Robert Duncan: Essential American Poets
Jun 9, 2010
W.S. Merwin: Essential American Poets
May 26, 2010
Barbara Guest: Essential American Poets
May 12, 2010 • 13m
Thomas McGrath: Essential American Poets
Apr 28, 2010
E.E. Cummings: Essential American Poets
Apr 14, 2010 • 11m
W.D. Snodgrass: Essential American Poets
Mar 31, 2010 • 15m
Howard Nemerov: Essential American Poets
Mar 3, 2010
Anne Sexton: Essential American Poets
Feb 17, 2010 • 29m
Weldon Kees: Essential American Poets
Feb 3, 2010 • 10m
James Schuyler: Essential American Poets
Jan 21, 2010 • 19m
William Stafford: Essential American Poets
Jan 6, 2010 • 12m
John Ashbery: Essential American Poets
Dec 30, 2009 • 22m
Robert Hass: Essential American Poets
Dec 10, 2009
Kenneth Koch: Essential American Poets
Dec 1, 2009
Mark Strand: Essential American Poets
Nov 11, 2009 • 10m
James Tate: Essential American Poets
Oct 28, 2009
Gerald Stern: Essential American Poets
Oct 14, 2009 • 14m
Louise Bogan: Essential American Poets
Oct 8, 2009
Yvor Winters: Essential American Poets
Sep 16, 2009
Li-Young Lee: Essential American Poets
Sep 2, 2009 • 18m
Amy Clampitt: Essential American Poets
Aug 20, 2009
Philip Levine: Essential American Poets
Aug 5, 2009
J. V. Cunningham: Essential American Poets
Jul 22, 2009 • 9m
Linda Gregg: Essential American Poets
Jul 10, 2009 • 11m
David Wagoner: Essential American Poets
Jun 12, 2009 • 12m
Elizabeth Bishop: Essential American Poets
May 28, 2009
Charles Wright: Essential American Poets
May 13, 2009
August Kleinzahler: Essential American Poets
Apr 30, 2009 • 18m
Yusef Komunyakaa: Essential American Poets
Apr 16, 2009 • 7m
Marilyn Hacker: Essential American Poets
Apr 2, 2009
Maxine Kumin: Essential American Poets
Mar 19, 2009
C.K. Williams: Essential American Poets
Mar 4, 2009 • 10m
Ted Kooser: Essential American Poets
Feb 19, 2009 • 17m
Heather McHugh: Essential American Poets
Feb 4, 2009 • 10m
Galway Kinnell: Essential American Poets
Jan 26, 2009 • 13m
Theodore Roethke: Essential American Poets
Jan 6, 2009 • 8m
Jean Valentine: Essential American Poets
Dec 19, 2008 • 7m
Rodney Jones: Essential American Poets
Dec 3, 2008 • 10m
Hayden Carruth: Essential American Poets
Nov 18, 2008
Kay Ryan: Essential American Poets
Oct 17, 2008 • 8m
Gwendolyn Brooks: Essential American Poets
Sep 16, 2008 • 11m
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