Guide to Poetry & Literature Webcasts

Individual Poets, Novelists, and Writers

Note: The writers in the section include poets, fiction writers, and their critics, as well as select writers of literary non-fiction.

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Jack, Janelle

Research Channel

Jackson, Angela

UCTV

Jackson, Major

WHYY's The Philadelphia Project

Jacobson, Howard

The Roland Collection

Jamal, Mahmood

57 Productions

James, P. D.

The Roland Collection

Jance, J. A.

2003 National Book Festival

Jarnot, Lisa

Poem Present

Jen, Gish

2005 National Book Festival

Johnson, Charles

Research Channel

Johnson, Crystal

WGBH Forum Network

Johnson, Linton Kwesi

57 Productions

Johnson, Ralph

Poem Present

Johnston, Devin

Poem Present

Jones, Edward P.

2004 National Book Festival

Online NewsHour

Jones, Evan

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "The Song of the Banana Man"

Jones, Rodney

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Jonson, Ben

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Still to be Neat" (direct link - starts at 06:57)

Jordan, June

Kelly Writers House

Joris, Pierre

Poem Present

Joseph, Allison

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Joseph, Lawrence

WGBH Forum Network

Junger, Sebastian

2002 National Book Festival

UCTV

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Kanigel, Robert

MIT World

Kapuscinski, Ryszard

The Roland Collection

Karasick, Adeena

Karasick Home Page
"Mumbia" videopoem
"Alphabet City" videopoem

Karon, Jan

2001 National Book Festival

WGBH Forum Network

Karr, Mary

2006 National Book Festival

Lunch Poems

Katz, Eliot

Best Mind Poetry Series
Reading from "Liberation Recalled" (direct link)

Katz, Vincent

Poem Present

Kay, Terry

WGBH Forum Network (with Judson Mitcham)

WGBH Forum Network (with Jeff Fields)

Keita, Nzadi

WHYY's The Philadelphia Project

Keillor, Garrison

WGBH Forum Network

Kellogg, Steven

2003 National Book Festival

Kelton, Elmer

2006 National Book Festival (with Lucia St. Clair Robson)

Kenan, Randall

WGBH Forum Network

Kendrick, Dolores

2005 National Book Festival

LC Poetry Webcast (with Philip Levine)

Kennedy, Lena

The Roland Collection

Kennedy, X. J.

2003 National Book Festival

Kennedy, William

The Roland Collection

Kerouac, Jack

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Kertesz, Imre

Online NewsHour

Khoury-Ghata, Vénus

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Words," tr. from French by Marilyn Hacker (direct link)

Kidd, Sue Monk

2005 National Book Festival

Kim, Suji Kwock

2004 National Book Festival

Lunch Poems

Kim, Suki

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Kimrey, Catherine

ResearchChannel

Kincaid, Jamaica

WGBH Forum Network

King, Cassandra

2003 National Book Festival

WGBH Forum Network

King, Larry L.

2001 National Book Festival

Kingston, Maxine Hong

Lunch Poems

ResearchChannel

UC Berkeley

Kinnell, Galway

BaylorTV

Fooling with Words
Reads "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
Online NewsHour Poetry Series

LC Webcast (with David Tucker)

Kirby, David

2005 National Book Festival

Library of Congress Webcast (with Li-Young Lee)

Klink, Joanna

Poem Present

Komunyakaa, Yusef

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Facing It"

Poetry Everywhere
Reads "Facing It"

UCTV

Konigsburg, E.L.

2004 National Book Festival

Kooser, Ted

2004 National Book Festival

LC Poetry
A Literary Evening with John Prine and Ted Kooser
Ted Kooser: Out of the Ordinary
Poet Laureate Ted Kooser Opens Literary Season (10/13/2005)

Online NewsHour
October 21, 2004 (named U.S. Poet Laureate)
April 4, 2005 (wins Pulitzer Prize)

UCTV
Poetry Reading: Ted Kooser (8/1/2005)
Ted Kooser at UC Davis (1/01/2007)

Kornblatt, Marc

Cooperative Children's Book Center

Kramer, Wendy

TheEastVillage.com

Kumin, Maxine

BaylorTV

LC Webcast (with Wesley McNair)

Kunitz, Stanley

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Hornwork: Autumn Lamentation"
Reading Gerard Manley Hopkins's "God's Grandeur"

Fooling with Words
Reads "Halley's Comet"

Online NewsHour

Poet Vision Video Series

Poetry Everywhere
Reads "Touch Me"

Kurzweil, Allen

LC Books and Beyond

Kushner, Tony

Kelly Writers House

Princeton University WebMedia (scroll down to April 4, 2002)

Kuzwayo, Ellen

The Roland Collection

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Lahiri, Jhumpa

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Online NewsHour

Laing, R. D.

The Roland Collection

Lamkin, Curtis

Fooling with Words
Reads "jump mama"

Lamon, Laurie

LC Webcast (with David Tucker)

Lamott, Anne

UCTV

Landry, David

Electronic Poetry Center

Lasky, Kathryn

Scholastic Book Fairs (direct link)

Lee, Andrea

WGBH Forum Network

Lee, Chang-rae

UCTV

Lee, Helen E.

WGBH Forum Network

Lee, Li-Young

2003 National Book Festival

Library of Congress Webcast (with David Kirby)

Lunch Poems

Online Newshour Poetry Series

Leeson, Robert

The Roland Collection

LeHane, Dennis

WGBH Forum Network

Lehman, David

2003 National Book Festival (with Dana Gioia)

2004 National Book Festival (with Dana Gioia)

Online NewsHour

Lehrer, Jim

2002 National Book Festival

Leonardi, Susan

ResearchChannel

Lessing, Doris

Online NewsHour

Lester, Julius

Cooperative Children's Book Center (direct link)

Levertov, Denise

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Settling"

Poet Vision Video Series

Levine, Philip

LC Poetry Webcast (with Dolores Kendrick)

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "What Work Is"

Poetry Everywhere
Reads "Belle Isle, 1949"

Levis, Larry

Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts (with David Daniel)

Levy, Deborah

The Roland Collection

Levy, Newman

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "I Wonder What Became of Rand, McNally..." (direct link)

Lewis, C. S.

UCTV
Program 1
Program 2
Program 3
Program 4
Program 5
Program 6
Program 7

WGBH Forum Network

Lieberman, Laurence

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Liebler, M. L.

Best Minds Poetry Series
M. L. Liebler & The Magic Poetry Band performs "The Twilight Blues" (direct link)

Lim, Genny

United States of Poetry
Reads "Winter Place"

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin

2004 National Book Festival

Fooling with Words
Reads "Riding into California," and interviewed

Limon, Graciela

UCTV

Lippman, Laura

2003 National Book Festival

2005 National Book Festival

Lipsyte, Robert

Cooperative Children's Book Center

Lively, Penelope

The Roland Collection

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "A Psalm of Life"

WGBH Forum Network
Public Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life
Longfellow and Paul Revere's Ride
Longfellow as Translator
Longfellow and the Art of Friendship

Lopez, César

The Roland Collection (with Eliseo Diego and Pedro Pérez Sarduy)

Lopez, Josefina

UCTV
Program 1
Program 2

Lopez, Melinda

WGBH Forum Network

Lowell, Amy

WGBH Forum Network

Lowell, Robert

WGBH Forum Network

Lurie, Alison

The Roland Collection

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Mac Cormack, Karen

Kelly Writers House (10/25/01)
Readings by Mac Cormack and Allen Fisher, followed by discussion and questions (direct link)

Mac Low, Jackson

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

MacEntee, Maire

UCTV

MacHale, D. J.

Scholastic Book Fairs (direct link)

Mackey, Nathaniel

Poem Present

Mackintosh, E. A.

BBC Inside Out
Reading of "Recruitment"

MacLachlan, Patricia

2001 National Book Festival

2004 National Book Festival

Maguire, Sarah

57 Productions

Mallon, Thomas

2001 National Book Festival

Manson, Peter

Poem Present

Manzano, Sonia

2004 National Book Festival

Martel, Yann

Online NewsHour

Martin, George R.R.

2005 National Book Festival

Martin, Judith

2002 National Book Festival

Martinez, Demetria

UCTV

Martinez, Magda

WHYY's The Philadelphia Project

Marvell, Andrew

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "To His Coy Mistress"

Mason, Bobbie Ann

2005 National Book Festival

Mason, David

2003 National Book Festival

Matthews, Harry

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Mazur, Gail

WGBH Forum Network

McBride, James

2003 National Book Festival

McCann, Richard

LC Webcast (with Kenny Carroll)

McCourt, Frank

Online NewsHour

WGBH Forum Network

McCrumb, Sharyn

2006 National Book Festival

McCutcheon, John

2006 National Book Festival

McDermott, Alice

2001 National Book Festival

2006 National Book Festival

McEwan, Ian

Online NewsHour

The Roland Collection

McKay, Claude

Columbia News Video Brief

McKissack, Patricia and Frederick

2001 National Book Festival

McMahon, Lynne

Onine NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "Spring"

McNair, Wesley

LC Webcast (with Maxine Kumin)

McPherson, James Alan

Kelly Writers House

Medwed, Mameve

WGBH Forum Network

Meltzer, Brad

2006 National Book Festival

Melville, Herman

Columbia News Video Brief

Columbia News Video Forum

Menashe, Samuel

Fooling with Words
Reads "Salt and Pepper"

2005 National Book Festival

Merrill, James

The Borzoi Reader Online
From this page access videos of Merrill reading his poems "Icecap," "The Ring Cycle," and "Alessio and the Zinnias"

Merwin, W. S.

Fooling with Words
Reads "Yesterday"

Library of Congress Webcast

Meyer, Stephenie

2006 National Book Festival

Middleton, Christopher

Poem Present

Mikhail, Dunya

Grinnell College

Miller, Caroline

WGBH Forum Network

Miller, E. Ethelbert

ResearchChannel

Milton, John

Favorite Poem Project
Reading from "Lycidas"

Minor, Wendell

2003 National Book Festival

Mistral, Gabriela

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Piececitos"

Mitchell, Adrian

57 Productions

Mitcham, Judson

WGBH Forum Network
An Evening with Judson Mitcham
Townsend Prize: Terry Kay and Judson Mitcham

Moggach, Deborah

The Roland Collection (with Fay Weldon)

Momaday, N. Scott

UCTV

Moody, Rick

Kelly Writers House, 9/28/00 (direct link)

Moorcock, Michael

The Roland Collection

Moore, Marianne

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "What Are Years"

Moore, MariJo

2004 National Book Festival

Mora, Pat

2005 National Book Festival

Morris, James Ryan

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Morris, Tracie

United States of Poetry
Reads "Project Princess"

Morrison, Toni

The Roland Collection

Mortimer, John

The Roland Collection

Moses, Sheila P.

2006 National Book Festival

Mosley, Walter

2001 National Book Festival

Moss, Thylias

The United States of Poetry
Reads from "Green Light and Gamma Ways"

Motion, Andrew

LC Poetry Webcast (with Donald Hall)

Muldoon, Paul

BaylorTV

Fooling with Words
Reads "The Sightseers," and interviewed

Online NewsHour

Princeton University WebMedia (scroll down to December 8, 2005)

Mullen, Harryette

Lunch Poems

Muller, Marcia

2005 National Book Festival

Murphy, Timothy

2004 National Book Festival

Muske-Dukes, Carol

ResearchChannel

Myers, Christopher

2003 National Book Festival

Myers, Walter Dean

2001 National Book Festival

2003 National Book Festival

2005 National Book Festival

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Nash, Thomas

Monroe County College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Spring, the Sweet Spring" (direct link)

Naylor, Gloria

The Roland Collection

Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds

2005 National Book Festival

Nelson, Marilyn

2003 National Book Festival

Nemerov, Howard

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "The Makers"

Monroe County College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "The Makers" (direct link)

Nepo, Mark

WGBH Forum Network

Neruda, Pablo

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Sonnet XVII" (direct link)

Nettles, Saundra Murray

ResearchChannel

Norman, Howard

ResearchChannel

Norris, Kathleen

BaylorTV

UCTV

WGBH Forum Network

Notley, Alice

Poem Present

Numeroff, Laura

2005 National Book Festival

Nye, Naomi Shihab

Cooperative Children's Book Center (direct link)

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading from "So Much Happiness" (direct link)

UCTV

WGBH Forum Network

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Oates, Joyce Carol

2004 National Book Festival

The Roland Collection

WGBH Forum Network

O'Brien, Tim

2002 National Book Festival

O'Hara, John

UCTV

O'Hara, Frank

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "POEM"

Okri, Ben

The Roland Collection

Olds, Jennifer

Cal Poly Pomona Artist's Series

Olds, Sharon

Fooling with Words
Reads "The Clasp"

Poetry Everywhere
Reads "I Go Back to May, 1937"

Olsen, William

ASU Web Video Page (direct link)

Olson, Charles

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Oppenheim, James

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Bread and Roses" (direct link)

O'Siadhail, Micheal

Columbia University (direct link)

Osbey, Brenda Marie

YouTube (Tulane University Channel)
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Osborne, Mary Pope

2003 National Book Festival

2005 National Book Festival (with Will Osborne)

Osman, Jena

Kelly Writers House

Ostashevsky, Eugene

Lunch Poems

Ott, Gil

WHYY's The Philadelphia Project

Owen, Wilfred

Gresham College

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Dulce Et Decorum Est"

Oyeyemi, Helen

WGBH Forum Network

Oz, Amos

Online NewsHour

UCTV

Ozick, Cynthia

Kelly Writers House

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Paino, Frank

Lunch Poems

Paley, Grace

Kelly Writers House

Palmer, Michael

Poem Present

Pamuk, Orhan

Online NewsHour

Paretsky, Sara

LC Webcast

Park, Linda Sue

2005 National Book Festival

Parker, Robert B.

2004 National Book Festival

Parks, Suzan-Lori

WGBH Forum Network

Paschen, Elise

2006 National Book Festival

Pastan, Linda

BaylorTV

Online NewsHour

2004 National Book Festival

Patchett, Ann

Online NewsHour

WGBH Forum Network

Paterson, Katherine

2001 National Book Festival

2004 National Book Festival

Cooperative Children's Book Center

WGBH Forum Network

Patterson, James

2003 National Book Festival

Peck, Richard

2001 National Book Festival

2004 National Book Festival

2006 National Book Festival

Pelecanos, George

2006 National Book Festival

Perriam, Wendy

The Roland Collection

Perrotta, Tom

WGBH Forum Network
Writer's Room Presents: LeHane, Mazur and Perrotta
Tom Perrotta: The Abstinence Teacher

Peters, Elizabeth

LC Poetry

Phillips, Caryl

WGBH Forum Network

Pickard, Tom

Poem Present

Piercy, Marge

Fooling with Words
Reads "What are big girls made of?" and interviewed

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "What's That Smell in the Kitchen" (direct link)

The Roland Collection

Pietri, Pedro

United States of Poetry
Reads "Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2"

Pinckney, Darryl

WGBH Forum Network

Pinkney, Gloria Jean

2005 National Book Festival

Pinkney, Sandra

2005 National Book Festival

Pinsky, Robert

Fooling with Words (includes reading of "ABC" and interview segment)

LC Poetry
Poetry and American Memory
Poetry in the Public Sphere

MIT World

Online NewsHour
Reading "9/11"
Reading from "An Explanation of America"
Reading an excerpt from "December Blues"
Reading "Jar of Pens"
Reading a poem about tennis
Reading Emily Dickinson, #249--"Wild Nights - Wild Nights"
Reading Countee Cullen's "Incident"
Reading translated poems by Mahmoud Darwish and Yehuda Amichai
Reading E. E. Cummings' "The Passing of the Year"
Reading Robert Frost's "Mending Wall"
Reading John Hollander's "Sparklers"
Reading Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush"
Reading a Robert Herrick Christmas carol
Reading Horace's "To Licinius"
Reading Philip Levine's "What Work Is"
Reading Lynne McMahon's "Spring"
Reading Marianne Moore's "What Are Years"
Reading Alan Shapiro's "The Courts at Lawton Street"
Reading Charles Simic's "Empire of Dreams"
Reading Su Tung-p'o's "Children"
Reading Mark Turpin's "The Box"
Reading Rosanna Warren's "Child's Room in Autumn"
Reading William Wordsworth's "Mutability"
Reading W. B. Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
Remembering poet A. R. Ammons
Remembering poet Agha Shahid Ali

WGBH Forum Network
Reading of several Emerson essays
Conversation with Robert Pinsky

Wired for Books, Interview with Mark Halliday (direct link)

Pinter, Harold

Nobel Lecture: Art, Truth & Politics (2005)

The Roland Collection

Plath, Sylvia

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Nick and the Candlestick"

Plimpton, George

Online NewsHour

UCTV

Po, Li

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "On a Quiet Night"

Poe, Edgar Allan

ResearchChannel

Pohl, Frederick

2004 National Book Festival

Pollitt, Katha

WGBH Forum Network

Powell, Alma

2003 National Book Festival

Powell, Jim

Poem Present (readings from 2004 and 2005)

Powell, Michael

The Roland Collection

Powell, Patricia

WGBH Forum Network

Power, Susan

2003 National Book Festival

Prévert, Jacques

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Déjeuner du Matin" ("Good Morning") (direct link)

Priest, Christopher

The Roland Collection

Prunty, Wyatt

Onine NewsHour

Pushkin, Alexander

WGBH Forum Network

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Quindlen, Anna

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Quinlan, Vess

The United States of Poetry
Reads "Sold Out"

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Raban, Jonathan

ResearchChannel

Rand, Ayn

Booknotes

Rash, Ron

WGBH Forum Network

Real Bird, Henry

United States of Poetry
Reads "Driftwood Feelin'"

Rector, Liam

LC Webcast (with Henri Cole and Judith Harris)

Reed, Ishmael

Best Minds Poetry Series
Reading "November 22, 1988" (direct link)

Reed, Jeremy

The Roland Collection

Reichs, Kathy

2006 National Book Festival

Rendell, Ruth

The Roland Collection

Retallack, Joan

Kelly Writers House

Reuss, Frederick

ResearchChannel

Rexroth, Kenneth

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Rhinelander, Philip

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "It's Very Unwise to Kill the Goose" (direct link - begins at 02:18)

Rhodes, Dan

WGBH Forum Network

Rice, David

2004 National Book Festival

Rich, Adrienne

Kelly Writers House

Poetry Everyhwere
Reads "What Kind of Times Are These"

WGBH Forum Network

Roberson, Ed

Poem Present

Roberts, Michèle

The Roland Collection

Robinson, Jeanne

2006 National Book Festival (with Spider Robinson)

Robertson, Lisa

Poem Present

Robinson, Kim Stanley

UCTV
Program 1
Program 2

Robinson, Roxana

WGBH Forum Network

Robinson, Sharon

2006 National Book Festival

Robinson, Spider

2006 National Book Festival (with Jeanne Robinson)

Robson, Lucia St. Clair

2006 National Book Festival (with Elmer Kelton)

Rodefer, Stephen

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Rodriguez, Luis

Lunch Poems

Roethke, Theodore

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "My Papa's Waltz"
Reading of "The Sloth"

Rogow, Zack

Lunch Poems

Rohmann, Eric

2003 National Book Festival

Rosen, Mike

57 Productions

The Roland Collection

Rosenblatt, Roger

Online NewsHour

Roth, Philip

Online NewsHour
Part One
Part Two

Rowling, J. K.

LC Poetry
Talk by Jean Bethke Elshtain on "Harry Potter, St. Augustine, and the Confrontation with Evil"

Ruefle, Mary

Lunch Poems

Rumi, Jelaluddin

LC Webcast

UCTV

Rushdie, Salman

The Roland Collection
Video 1 (with Charlotte Cornwall)
Video 2 (with W. l. Webb)

ResearchChannel

Russo, Richard

Online NewsHour

Ryan, Kay

Online NewsHour

Ryan, Pam Muñoz

2003 National Book Festival