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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Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

2004 National Book Festival

Sachar, Louis

2006 National Book Festival

Said, Edward

The Roland Collection

Saldaña, René

2005 National Book Festival

Salter, James

Online NewsHour

Salter, Mary Jo

2005 National Book Festival

Sams, Ferrol

WGBH Forum Network

Sanchez, Sonia

WGBH Forum Network

Sandburg, Carl

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Sanders, Ed

Best Mind Poetry Series (direct link)

Sandford, John

2005 National Book Festival

Saramago, Jose

UCTV

Sarduy, Pedro Pérez

The Roland Collection (with Eliseo Diego and César Lopez)

Sarris, Greg

UCTV
Program 1
Program 2

Sarton, May

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading from "Letter from Chicago: For Virginia Woolf" (direct link)

Sassoon, Siegfried

WGBH Forum Network

Say, Allen

2002 National Book Festival

Schmidt, Michael

BaylorTV

Schutt, Christine

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Scottoline, Lisa

2006 National Book Festival (with Daniel Silva)

Sebold, Alice

Google Video

Sedaris, David

Kelly Writers House

See, Carolyn

UCTV

Selznick, Brian

2002 National Book Festival

Sendak, Maurice

MIT World

Princeton University Archived Lectures (scroll down to October 18, 2000)

The Roland Collection

Senghor, Leopold Sedar

LC Webcast

Sentell, Todd

WGBH Forum Network (with Bobb Cupp)

Serote, Mongan

The Roland Collection

Shakespeare, William

Booknotes
Stephen Greenblatt, author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Cal Poly Pomona
Programs on Staging Shakespeare, The Globe, and Shakespeare and Royal Succession

The Electric Shakespeare
Video clips of Shakespeare's plays

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Sonnet 29"

Frontline (PBS)
Excerpts from Frontline's film Much Ado About Something, which examines the Shakespeare authorship controversy

LC Poetry
Harold Bloom discusses his book Shakespeare and Genius

Wired for Books
William Shakespeare's Plays and Poems in Audio and Video

Shanley, John Patrick

Online NewsHour

Shapiro, Alan

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "The Courts at Lawton Street"

Poem Present (scroll down)

ResearchChannel

Shapiro, David

Poem Present

Shelley, Mary

BaylorTV

WGBH Forum Network

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Princeton University WebMedia (scroll down to September 27, 2004; discussion of Shelley begins at 22:38)

Shinebourne, Janice

The Roland Collection

Shir, Mir Ali

LC Symposium
Panel 1
Panel 2
Panel 3

Shreve, Anita

2002 National Book Festival

Silva, Daniel

2004 National Book Festival

2006 National Book Festival (with Lisa Scottoline)

Silverstein, Shel

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" (direct link)
Reading of "Boa Constrictor" (direct link)

Simic, Charles

National Book Festival
2007 Podcast
2007 Webcast

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "Empire of Dreams"

Poetry Everywhere
Reads "Stone"

Simon, Maurya

University of California, Riverside (scroll down, or go to direct link)

Simpson, Mona

UCTV

Singleton, George

WGBH Forum Network

Sissay, Lemn

33e Poetry International Festival

Slaughter, Karin

2005 National Book Festival

WGBH Forum Network

Smiley, Jane

UCTV

Smith, Alexander McCall

2006 National Book Festival

BaylorTV

Smith, Cynthia Leitich

2002 National Book Festival

Smith, William Jay

2004 National Book Festival

Smith, Zadie

WGBH Forum Network

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk

2002 National Book Festival

Snyder, Gary

Best Minds Poetry Series (direct link)

UC Davis Mutimedia Archive
Panel with Robert Hass and John McPhee on writing about the natural world (scroll down to section "John McPhee talks about writing") (direct link, audio begins at 03:58)

Sontag, Susan

Kelly Writers House

Online NewsHour

Soto, Gary

2001 National Book Festival

Soyinka, Wole

The Roland Collection

UCTV

WGBH Forum Network

Sparrow

United States of Poetry
Reads "A Testimonial"

Spender, Stephen

The Roland Collection

Spinelli, Eileen

2003 National Book Festival

Spinelli, Jerry

2003 National Book Festival

St. John, David

ASU English Web Video (direct link)

Lunch Poems

Stabenow, Dana

2004 National Book Festival

LC Webcast

Stafford, William

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Traveling through the Dark" (direct link)

Stallings, A. E.

2005 National Book Festival

Stanton, Maura

BaylorTV

Stein, Gertrude

American Poet Greats Lecture Series
Kelly Writers House conversation with Marjorie Perloff and Bob Perelman about Stein (direct link)

Stein, Kevin

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Steinbeck, John

UCTV

Stephenson, Neal

2004 National Book Festival

Sterne, Lawrence

Gresham College

Stevens, Wallace

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Block City"

Stewart, Susan

Poem Present

Stine, R. L.

2003 National Book Festival

2004 National Book Festival

2005 National Book Festival

Stolowitz, Andrea

UCTV

Stoppard, Tom

UCTV

Strand, Mark

Monroe County College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Keeping Things Whole" (direct link)

Poem Present

Poetry Everywhere
Reading of "Lines for Winter"

Straub, Peter

2004 National Book Festival

Styron, William

LC Poetry

Sutherland, Keston

Poem Present

Swenson, Cole

Poem Present

Swift, Graham

The Roland Collection

Syzmborska, Wislawa

Monroe Community College National Poetry Month 2003 Video Project
Reading of "Children of our Era" (direct link)

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Tagore, Rabindranath

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Gitanjali"

Wired for Books
Martin Sheen reading "My Country Awake"

Tan, Amy

UCTV

Tapahonso, Luci

2002 National Book Festival

Tate, James

LC Poetry Reading with Jorie Graham

Poem Present

Taylor Bradford, Barbara

2002 National Book Festival

Teague, Mark

2006 National Book Festival

Scholastic Book Fairs (direct link)

Tennant, Emma

The Roland Collection

Thayer, Ernest Lawrence

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Casey at the Bat"

Theroux, Paul

UCTV

Thomas, D. M.

The Roland Collection

Thomas, Robert

Lunch Poems

Thomason, Dustin

2004 National Book Festival

Thoreau, Henry David

WGBH Forum Network

Thubron, Colin

The Roland Collection

Tillman, Lynne

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Tolkien, J. R. R.

BaylorTV

UCTV
Program 1
Program 2
Program 3

WGBH Forum Network

Tolstoy, Leo

UCTV

Torres, Edwin

Electronic Poetry Center

Kelly Writers House

Trethewey, Natasha

2004 National Book Festival

Online NewsHour

WGBH Forum Network (with Stephen Dunn)

Trilling, Lionel

Columbia News Video Forum

Discussed during Booknotes program

Tsukiyama, Gail

2001 National Book Festival

Trueman, Terry

2006 National Book Festival

Tucker, David

LC Webcast (with Laurie Lamon)

LC Webcast (with Galway Kinnell)

Tung-p'o, Su

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "Children"

Turner, Brian

Online NewsHour

Turow, Scott

2001 National Book Festival

2006 National Book Festival

Turpin, Mark

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "The Box"

Twain, Mark

Seattle Channel
Living Literature Series

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Updike, John

Online NewsHour

The Roland Collection

Urrea, Luis

WGBH Forum Network

Uyematsu, Amy

2006 National Book Festival

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Valdes-Rodriguez, Alisa

2006 National Book Festival

Vallejo, Cesar

LC Webcast

van Wilderode, Anton

LC Webcast (reading of "The Butterfly Tree")

Vargas Llosa, Mario

The Roland Collection

Vendler, Helen

Princeton University WebMedia
On George Herbert (scroll down to April 14, 2004)
On Walt Whitman (scroll down to April 15, 2004)
On John Ashbery (scroll down to April 16, 2004)

Verma, Nirmal

The Roland Collection

Vicuña, Cecilia

World of Poetry

Vidal, Gore

The Roland Collection

Villaseñor, Victor

UCTV

Vincent, Duke

Book Look Television

Viorst, Judith

2006 National Book Festival

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Walcott, Derek

UCTV

United States of Poetry
Reads "Star"

WGBH Forum Network

Waldman, Anne

Best Mind Poetry Series
Reading "Hopes & Fears" (direct link)

Waldrop, Keith

Poem Present (with Rosmarie Waldrop)

Waldrop, Rosmarie

Poem Present (with Keith Waldrop)

Walker, Alice

Barnard College Video Readings (scroll down)

Walker, Margaret

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "For My People"

Walker, Shawn

Kelly Writers House
Reading from The Purchase of a Day, 9/18/99 (direct link)

Wallace, Daniel

WGBH Forum Network

Walsh, Jill Paton

The Roland Collection

Walsh, William

WGBH Forum Network (with David Bottom)

Wambaugh, Joseph

UCTV

Warner, Marina

The Roland Collection

Warren, Rosanna

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "Child's Room in Autumn"

Warren, Robert Penn

Poet Vision (direct link)

Weil, Joe

Fooling with Words
Reads from "Painting the Christmas Trees"

Weldon, Fay

The Roland Collection
With Deborah Moggach
With Valeria Grove

Wesker, Arnold

The Roland Collection

Westlake, Donald

2001 National Book Festival

Whalen, Philip

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Wheeler, Susan

Poem Present

Whelan, Gloria

Online NewsHour

Whitehead, Colson

WGBH Forum Network

Whitman, Bruce

UCTV

Whitman, Walt

ASU Web Video Page
Terry Moore performs as Walt Whitman in "At Last: An American Bard" (direct link)

Booknotes

Favorite Poem Project
Reading from Song of Myself

LC Poetry
Daniel Mark Epstein discusses his book, Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington

Poetry Everywhere
Reading of "A Passage to India" (excerpt)

Princeton University WebMedia (scroll down to April, 2004)

Walt Whitman Archive
Recording, possibly of Whitman, reading his poem "America"

Whitman and Place

Yale University
Abraham Lincoln & Walt Whitman as Representative Americans

Wideman, John Edgar

Kelly Writers House

ResearchChannel

WGBH Forum Network

Wieners, John

TheEastVillage.com

Wier, Dara

Poem Present

Wiesel, Elie

UCTV

Willems, Mo

2006 National Book Festival

Williams, C. K.

Online NewsHour
April 19, 2000 (3rd video down)
November 24, 2003

Poem Present

Williams, Raymond

The Roland Collection

Williams, William Carlos

American Poet Greats Lecture Series

Willis, Connie

2004 National Book Festival

Wilson, Edmund

WGBH Forum Network

LC Webcast

Wiman, Christian

2005 National Book Festival

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Wodehouse, P.G.

WGBH Forum Network

Wolfe, Tom

The Roland Collection

2005 National Book Festival

Wong, Janet

2003 National Book Festival

Woolf, Virginia

Princeton University WebMedia (scroll down to September 29, 2004)

WordsWorth, William

BBC Video Nation
Reading of "Daffodils"

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "Mutability"

Temple University
Lecture on Wordsworth and Tintern Abbey by Frank Leib

Worley, Demetrice

Illinois Poet Laureate Website

Wouk, Herman

Columbia News Video Forum

UCTV

Wrede, Patricia

2004 National Book Festival

Wright, C. D.

TheEastVillage.com

Poem Present

United States of Poetry
Reads "Tours"

Wright, Franz

WGBH Forum Network

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Xingjian, Gao

Online NewsHour

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Yancy, Juli

United States of Poetry
Reads "Untitled Nebraska Poem"

Yeats, William Butler

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Politics"

Online NewsHour
Robert Pinsky reads "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"

Poetry Everywhere
Reading of "The Wild Old Wicked Man"

WGBH Forum Network
"W. B. Yeats: The Arch-Poet"

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny

2006 National Book Festival

LC Webcast

Yezzi, David

2006 National Book Festival

Yolen, Jane

2003 National Book Festival

Yoshitada, Sone No

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of untitled tanka, tr. Kenneth Rexroth

Young, Al

2005 National Book Festival

Lunch Poems

Young, Ed

2002 National Book Festival

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Zagajewski, Adam

Poem Present

Zawgee

Favorite Poem Project
Reading of "Way of the Water-Hyacinth"

Zephaniah, Benjamin

57 Productions

Zizek, Slavoj

Kelly Writers House, 9/18/00 (direct link)

Zurawski, Maggie

TheEastVillage.com