Essential American Poets
By Poetry Foundation
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Podcast Description
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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Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Lorine Niedecker with an introduction to her life and work. Recor | -- | 3/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gertrude Stein: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Gertrude Stein, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded | -- | 1/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Charles Simic: Essential American Poets Recordings of former poet laureate Charles Simic, with an introduction to his life and | -- | 1/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Alan Dugan: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Alan Dugan, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 1962 | -- | 12/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gary Snyder: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Gary Snyder, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in 19 | -- | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Adrienne Rich: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Adrienne Rich, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded i | -- | 9/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Richard Hugo: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Richard Hugo, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded in | -- | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Pinsky: Essential American Poets Recordings of former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, with an introduction to his life and | -- | 8/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Michael Palmer: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Michael Palmer, with an introduction to his life and work. | -- | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A.R. Ammons: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet A.R. Ammons, with an introduction to his life and work. Recor | -- | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jorie Graham: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Jorie Graham, with an introduction to her life and work. Rec | -- | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Robinson Jeffers, with an introduction to his life and w | -- | 6/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Carolyn Kizer, with an introduction to her life and work. R | -- | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Muriel Rukeyser: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Muriel Rukeyser, with an introduction to her life and wor | -- | 5/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Creeley: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of the poet Robert Creeley, with an introduction to his life and w | -- | 5/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Lucille Clifton: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of poet Lucille Clifton, with an introduction to her life and wor | -- | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mona Van Duyn: Essential American Poets Archival Recordings of former poet laureate poet Mona Van Duyn, with an introduction to | -- | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Kenneth Rexroth: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Kenneth Rexroth, with an introduction to his life and work. Record | -- | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Louis Simpson: Essential American Poets Recordings of poet Louis Simpson, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 1 | -- | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wallace Stevens: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of the poet Wallace Stevens, with an introduction to his life and | -- | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Thylias Moss: Essential American Poets Recordings of the poet Thylias Moss, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded | -- | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stanley Kunitz: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of former poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, with an introduction to h | -- | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Hayden: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of the poet Robert Hayden, with an introduction to his life and wor | -- | 1/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Robert Bly: Essential American Poets Recordings of the poet Robert Bly, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 200 | -- | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conrad Aiken: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of Conrad Aiken reading his poems, with an introduction to his life | -- | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 25 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Great but very long
I love poetry so when i saw this podcast i thought,"This i going to be perfect." I purchased the Jean valentine collection and i don't regret it! It was lovely but long. At the beginning the introduce the poet and give a short bio. about his/her life and i found it very interesting. This is great if u love poetry, podcasts, and listening for long amounts of time.
One of the better poetry podcasts available
"Essential American Poets" offers one of the better poetry podcasts available, offering a range of major American poets free of charge. At first the list of poets was too narrow and mostly male, but over the last year the Poetry Foundation has offered a much richer slice of poets former Poet Laureate Donald Hall deemed "essential." Some podcasts are better than others: clearer, longer, with a range of the poet's work. Some are too brief. But you get a very good sampling nevertheless. I wish the Poetry Foundation would leave up all the podcasts, though, becomes some of the initial ones are no longer available. Having only 25 available means that if someone happens upon these podcasts at a certain point, they may miss some of the amazing poets (Lucille Clifton, John Ashbery, etc.) who have already posted. Also, given the foundation's resources it would be great if it would update the poets a bit more. Nevertheless, it's a great resource for lovers of poetry. If you never got to hear the great Adrienne Rich, who recently passed away, read her poetry live, you can hear it here.
