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"A precious treasure chest has been unearthed with these historic recordings." --Booklist

About the Series

The Academy’s Poetry Audio Archive contains hundreds of unique live recordings made since 1963, when the Academy hosted its first public reading. A number of these recordings are available for purchase in CD-R format, and the list of titles in our catalog increases annually.

Each recording represents a reading in its entirety, chronicling a distinct moment in the career of a poet and in the arc of their art. While many masterworks exist here in their original forms--often in their premier public performance--many unpublished poems have also hereby been saved from obscurity.

About the Recordings

Audio Archive

Our Poetry Audio Archive recordings come from a variety of years, locations, and technologies. Each one has been diligently re-mastered to provide a moving, memorable listening experience.

Though we strive to improve the audio quality of each recording to the best of our ability--we carefully remove distracting tones--some recordings contain anomalies we have been unable to remove and are therefore noisier than studio recordings.

Each single CD is $12; double-CD sets are $17.
<!...a...>Poets in the Parks Poets in the Parks

Selections from the acclaimed Poets in the Parks reading series, featuring some of the best younger contemporary poets.

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All Three Audio Archive Anthologies All Three Audio Archive Anthologies

For a Limited Time: Get all three Anthologies from the Academy of American Poets' Audio Archive for the reduced price of $30.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume I Audio Archive Anthology, Volume I

This collection of historic recordings spans 40 years of public readings sponsored by The Academy of American Poets.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume II Audio Archive Anthology, Volume II

The second volume in our incredibly popular Audio Archive Anthology series contains twenty-two poems read by some of contemporary poetry's most influential authors.

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Audio Archive Anthology, Volume III Audio Archive Anthology, Volume III

The third volume in the incredibly popular Audio Archive Anthology series features 21 poems read by some of the most influential poets of the twentieth century.

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John Ashbery CD

One listens to him reading for the musicality, for the snatches of humor or twists of a phrase.

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Margaret Atwood CD

Atwood provides vivid insights into her sources and stories of her process.

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W.H. Auden CD

Recorded live at the Guggenheim Museum.

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Frank Bidart & C.K. Williams CD

Here are two poets whose work intensifies when read aloud.

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Louise Bogan CD

Presents the range and diversity of her achievement over a period of nearly a half century.

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Joseph Brodsky CD

The world seems larger in Brodsky's poetry than in anyone else's now writing.

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Amy Clampitt CD

Clampitt is a genius for places, with a large, confident, humane imagination.

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Lucille Clifton & Gwendolyn Brooks CD

Captures all the conviviality between the poets and their warm interaction with the audience.

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Rita Dove & Rosanna Warren CD

Operas of celebration, love, and loss.

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Alan Dugan CD

His poems are spare, quirky, fierce, unconcessive, grudging, loving, and terribly real.

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Robert Duncan CD

Duncan is at the height of his powers at the time of this reading.

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Carolyn Forché CD

Hearing this recording proves that poems exist in a reading as much as they do on the page.

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Kamau Brathwaite & Allen Ginsberg CD

This recording presents two poets who are both oral and highly literary.

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Louise Glück CD

There is perhaps no other poet who can speak so ardently in the voice of flowers or atmospheric conditions and pull it off.

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Robert Graves CD

A representation of his poems covering a span of more than 50 years.

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Linda Gregg CD

Two readings which span a decade of her work.

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Donald Hall CD

He reads selections from the acclaimed The Alligator Bride and The Yellow Room.

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Robert Hass & Thom Gunn CD

This reading from two Bay Area poets gives a glimpse of both of them in mid-career.

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Robert Hayden CD

Given in the midst of his service as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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Anthony Hecht CD

Hecht's work is possessed of a singular integrity, a grave moral purpose that broods on humankind entangled with history.

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John Hollander CD

A remarkable and representative selection from nine of the poet's sixteen verse collections.

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Richard Howard CD

He reads three dramatic monologues based on Robert Browning's life and work.

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Randall Jarrell CD

Hear how Jarrell gained his reputation as one of this century's most astute poetry critics.

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Marilyn Hacker & June Jordan CD

A phenomenal pairing of two poets who compliment each other with their very distinct formal concerns.

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Donald Justice CD

Most of the poems from this reading appear in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Selected Poems.

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Galway Kinnell CD

Given shortly before he won the 1982 Pulitzer Prize.

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Carolyn Kizer & David Wagoner CD

Two important American poets brought together forty years after they studied under Stanley Kunitz, who introduces this reunion.

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Kenneth Koch CD

Readings by the widely celebrated poignant humorist of the New York School.

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Yusef Komunyakaa & Sharon Olds CD

These two poets captive their audience with this remarkable reading.

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Maxine Kumin CD

Rich with beautiful poems of the animal and human world.

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Stanley Kunitz CD

Kunitz's work takes on an autobiographical quality not always apparent in his books.

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Li-Young Lee & Chase Twichell CD

Previously unreleased work of two intense poets in the early stages of their careers.

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Philip Levine CD

From one of America's strongest readers.

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Audre Lorde CD

Lorde reads largely from her widely acclaimed seventh book The Black Unicorn.

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Robert Lowell & John Berryman CD

The first public reading by Berryman of his Pulitzer Prize-winning Dream Songs.

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William Matthews CD

A poet who relished the nuances and sensuality of language, food, love, and jazz.

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Heather McHugh & Gerald Stern CD

Energy, wit, inventiveness, and the element of spiritual fire fuels this lively reading.

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James Merrill CD

Library Journal called Stephen Yenser's introduction to this reading "brilliant."

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W.S. Merwin CD

Merwin captured at a crucial point in his career.

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Czeslaw Milosz CD

A rich and broad selection from 30 years of the poet's work.

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Paul Muldoon & Les Murray CD

Listeners to this recording will enjoy their unique and distinctive styles as well as their adept and inventive use of language.

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Howard Nemerov CD

This reading took place during Nemerov's tenure as U.S. Poet Laureate.

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George Oppen & David Ignatow CD

This unexpected pairing of poets represent two very distinct lines of poetic thought.

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Robert Pinsky CD

Pinsky emphasized the vocal experience of the art of poetry.

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Charles Simic CD

The poems have a lot to say to any ear which can hear their extraordinary, visionary magic.

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William Stafford CD

Each poem is the expression of a strong and alert sensibility.

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Mark Strand CD

The poet's incantatory style has a powerful effect on the listener.

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May Swenson CD

Swenson was one of the surest poets, clear-eyed and absolute in her delineations.

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James Tate CD

Tate gave this superbly comic reading in connection with his receipt of the second Wallace Stevens Award.

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Quincy Troupe CD

Quincy Troupe reflects on the impact that blues and jazz has had on American poetry.

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Mona Van Duyn CD

Given in the year Mona Van Duyn won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Derek Walcott CD

Captures the Nobel Laureate at the outset of his career.

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Robert Penn Warren CD

Intricate portraits of lackadaisical Southern life that move almost seamlessly into myth.

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Richard Wilbur CD

Like the poems themselves, Wilbur's performance here is flawless.

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Charles Wright & Adrienne Rich CD

This great pairing of two great poets took place on a night when each received a major prize in poetry.

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James Wright CD

A rare collection of James Wright's radiant poems of astonishment.

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