Listen to audio-recorded readings of poets and prose writers participating in literary events at the Library of Congress Capitol Hill campus as well as sessions at the Library’s Recording Laboratory.
“The Poem I Wish I Had Read,” is a video series in which acclaimed poets discuss and read a single poem that they wish they had encountered as a teenager. In each of these video testimonials, poets talk about who they were as high school students, why reading these poems would have been transformational for them, and how these works altered their sense of what a poem can be.
The Poetry Center's dedicated online archive makes available new video recordings (with audio downloads), plus early audio recordings from the 1950s onward.
The archive features recordings from the University of Arizona Poetry Center's long-running Reading Series and other readings presented under the auspices of the Center. The earliest of these recordings is a Robert Creeley reading from 1963.
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