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Alfred
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) reading
“The Bugle Song” and “The Charge of the Light
Brigade”
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Robert
Browning (1812-1889) reading “How They Brought
the Good News from Ghent to Aix”
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Walt
Whitman (1819-1892) reading “America”
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W.B.
Yeats (1865-1939) reading “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
and “Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931”
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Gertrude
Stein (1874-1946) reading “Christian Berard”
and “She Bowed to Her Brother”
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Robert
Frost (1874-1963) reading “The Oven Bird,”
“The Road Not Taken,” “Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening,” “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
and “The Silken Tent”
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Carl
Sandburg (1878-1967) reading “Grass,” “Cool
Tombs” and ”107” from The People, Yes.
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Wallace
Stevens (1879-1955) reading “Fabliau of Florida,”
“Bantams in Pine-Woods,” “So-And-So Reclining
on Her Couch” and “ Not Ideas About the Thing
But the Thing Itself”
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William
Carlos Williams (1883-1963) reading “Queen-Anne’s-Lace,”
“To Elsie” and “The Red Wheelbarrow”
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Ezra
Pound (1885-1972) reading “Cantico Del Sole,”
an excerpt from “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly” and “Canto
XLV”
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| H.D.
(1886-1961) reading an excerpt from “Helen in Egypt” |
| Robinson
Jeffers (1887-1962) reading “The Day Is a Poem”
and “Oh, Lovely Rock” |
| John
Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) reading “Captain Carpenter”
and “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter” |
| T.S.
Eliot (1888-1965) reading “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock” and “La Figlia Che Piange” |
| Edna
St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) reading “Recuerdo,”
“I Shall Forget You Presently My Dear” and “Childhood
Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies” |
| Dorothy
Parker (1893-1967) reading “One Perfect Rose,”
“Resume” and “Afternoon” |
| E.E.
Cummings (1894-1962) reading “anyone lived in a pretty
how town” and “as freedom is a breakfastfood” |
| Louise
Bogan (1897-1970) reading “The Dream” and “Song
for the Last Act” |
| Melvin
B. Tolson (1898-1966) reading “An Ex-Judge at the
Bar” and “Dark Symphony” |
| Laura
(Riding) Jackson (1901-1991) reading “Death as Death”
and “Nothing So Far” |
| Langston
Hughes (1902-1967) reading “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,”
“Mother to Son,” “The Weary Blues” and
“Harlem [2]” |
| Ogden
Nash (1902-1971) reading “I Do, I Will, I Have”
and “I Must Tell You about My Novel” |
| W.H.
Auden (1907-1973) reading “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,”
“Musee des Beaux Arts” and “If I Could Tell
You” |
| Louis
MacNeice (1907-1963) reading “Conversation”
and “Meeting Point” |
| Theodore
Roethke (1908-1963) reading “My Papa’s Waltz,”
”The Waking” and “I Knew a Woman” |
| Elizabeth
Bishop (1911-1979) reading “The Fish” and an
excerpt from “Crusoe in England” |
| Robert
Hayden (1913-1980) reading “Those Winter Sundays”
and “El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)” |
| Muriel
Rukeyser (1913-1980) reading “Night Feeding,”
“The Poem as Mask” and “Waiting for Icarus” |
| William
Stafford (1914-1993) reading “The Star in the Hills”
and “Traveling Through the Dark” |
| Randall
Jarrell (1914-1965) reading “The Death of the Ball
Turret Gunner” and “Seele im Raum” |
| John
Berryman (1914-1972) reading “The Ball Poem,”
“4” and “22” from The Dream Songs |
| Dylan
Thomas (1914-1953) reading “Fern Hill” and “Among
Those Killed in the Dawn Raid Was a Man Aged a Hundred” |
| Robert
Lowell (1917-1977) reading “Skunk Hour” and
“Home After Three Months Away” |
| Gwendolyn
Brooks (1917-2000) reading “Song in the Front Yard,”
“kitchenette building” and “We Real Cool” |
| Robert
Duncan (1919-1988) reading “Poetry, A Natural Thing”
and “Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” |
| Philip
Larkin (1922-1985) reading “Places, Loved Ones”
and “The Old Fools” |
| Denise
Levertov (1923-1997) reading “The Secret” and
“Her Sadness” |
| Allen
Ginsberg (1926-1997) reading an excerpt from “Howl”
and “A Supermarket in California” |
| Frank
O’Hara (1926-1966) reading “Ave Maria”
and “Poem (Lana Turner Has collapsed!)” |
| Anne
Sexton (1928-1974) reading “The Truth the Dead Know”
and “The Operation” |
| Etheridge
Knight (1931-1991) reading “The Idea of Ancestry”
and “Belly Song” |
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Sylvia
Plath (1932-1963) reading “Daddy” and “Lady
Lazarus”
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