Collection Items
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Audio RecordingDerek Walcott reading his poems Recorded Nov. 24, 1986, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.- Contributor: Walcott, Derek - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1986-01-01
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Audio RecordingConsultants' reunion readings by thirteen Consultants in Poetry in the Coolidge Auditorium, March 6, 1978 Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Contributor: Whittemore, Reed - Eberhart, Richard - Smith, William Jay - Stafford, William - Bishop, Elizabeth - Shapiro, Karl - Hoffman, Daniel - Spender, Stephen - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Nemerov, Howard - Jacobsen, Josephine - Kunitz, Stanley - Dickey, James - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Hayden, Robert
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingStephen Spender reading his poems with comment Presents Mr. Spender reading eleven of his poems.
- Contributor: Spender, Stephen - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingBeth Bentley and Nelson Bentley reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, April 24, 1978 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Introduced by Robert Hayden. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
- Contributor: Bentley, Beth - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Hayden, Robert - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Bentley, Nelson
- Date: 1978
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Audio RecordingDavid Anderson reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, May 3, 1978 Mr. Anderson reads twenty-eight poems from his collection, Lines in the snow.
- Contributor: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Anderson, David
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingHow it strikes a contemporary reflections on poetry and the role of the poet Presents a lecture delivered by Robert Hayden. Following the lecture, Mr. Hayden reads the poem, A letter from Phillis Wheatley and section V of the poem, Elegies for Paradise Valley from his collection, American Journal.
- Contributor: Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Hayden, Robert - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Broderick, John C.
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingNaomi Madgett reading her poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, May 23, 1978 Ms. Madgett reads fourteen poems from her collection entitled Pink ladies in the afternoon; eighteen from her collection entitled Exits and entrances (unpublished at the time of reading); and thirteen from her collection entitled Star by star.
- Contributor: Madgett, Naomi Cornelia Long - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingSuresh Dalal reading translations by Jagdish Joshi of Mr. Dalal's poems Mr. Dalal reads twenty of his poems, which were originally written in Gujarati.
- Contributor: Dalāla, Sureśa Purushottamadāsa - Joshī, Jagadīśa - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingRobert Earl Hayden reading his poems with comment Mr. Hayden reads and comments on his 1978 collection of poems, American journal.
- Contributor: Hayden, Robert - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingWilliam Meredith reading his poems Mr. Meredith reads seventeen of his poems, many of these from his previously published collections. In addition, he reads one poem by Robert Hayden and one by George Herbert.
- Contributor: Meredith, William - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Broderick, John C. - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingAny man's equal the life, loves, and friends of Hester Lynch Thrale In this program of dramatic readings compiled from the writings of English socialite Hester Lynch Salusbury, Welsh-born actress Elizabeth Morgan presents a lively and historical account of Mrs. Thrale's life, both as Mrs. Thrale and Mrs. Piozzi.
- Contributor: Piozzi, Hester Lynch - Morgan, Elizabeth - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingMexican poets José Emilio Pacheco and Tomás Segovia reading their poems After the English translation, Mr. Pacheco reads in the original Spanish selections from his collection, Don't ask me how the time goes by; Mr. Merdieth reads from Weathering by Alastair Reid; and Mr. Segovia follows each English version of his poems with the original Spanish for selections from Notebooks of a nomad and the single poem Wanderer and brother.
- Contributor: Reid, Alastair - Meredith, William - Pacheco, José Emilio - Segovia, Tomás - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingJames Alan McPherson and Tim O'Brien reading from their fiction Mr. McPherson reads a story from his collection Elbow room, titled, The story of a dead man. Mr. O'Brien reads his The nuclear age, unpublished at the time of the reading.
- Contributor: O'Brien, Tim - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Meredith, William - McPherson, James Alan - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingAdrienne Wolfert reading her poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Nov. 13, 1978 Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
- Contributor: Wolfert, Adrienne - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1978-01-01
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Audio RecordingMay Sarton and Romulus Linney reading from their work in the Coolidge Auditorium, Apr. 23, 1979 Ms. Sarton reads poetry from her collected volumes: A durable fire; A private mythology; Cloud, stone, sun, vine; A grain of mustard seed; and The lion and the rose. In the course of his introduction of Mr. Linney, Mr. Meredith reads the opening speeches from two of Mr. Linney's plays, Old man Joseph and his family, and Childe Byron. Mr. Linney reads, with the...
- Contributor: Taylor, Henry - Bolt, Jonathan - Linney, Romulus - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Meredith, William - Sarton, May - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund
- Date: 1979-01-01
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Audio RecordingWilliam Meredith reading his poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 2, 1979 Program introduced by John C. Broderick ; Mr. Meredith introduced by Archibald MacLeish, who reads the poem "Ten-day leave" by Meredith. Recorded Oct. 2, 1979, in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature.
- Contributor: Meredith, William - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Broderick, John C. - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Macleish, Archibald
- Date: 1979-01-01
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Audio RecordingW.S. Merwin reading his poems with comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 17, 1979 Mr. Merwin comments on poetry, language, and his own work and then reads twenty-nine of his poems.
- Contributor: Meredith, William - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Folger Shakespeare Library - Rector, Liam - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley)
- Date: 1979-01-01
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Audio RecordingSterling Allen Brown reading his poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 18, 1980 From Southern road: After winter ; Sister Lou ; Long gone ; Odyssey of Big Boy ; Old man buzzard ; Sporting Beasley -- Puttin' on dog -- From Southern road: Children's children ; Strange legacies ; Cabaret ; Ma Rainey ; Slim in Atlanta -- From The last ride of Wild Bill: Slim in hell -- Parish doctor -- Uncle Joe -- From...
- Contributor: Meredith, William - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Harper, Michael S. - Brown, Sterling A.
- Date: 1980-01-01
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Audio RecordingJohn Peck and Ellen Bryant Voigt reading their poems Mr. Peck reads four of his poems entitled Sorcerer's apprentice, Fog burning off at Cape May, March elegies, and Migration. Ms. Voigt reads St. Judas by James Wright; four poems from her collection, Claiming kin; and ten of her other poems. William Meredith introduces the poets. The readings are interpreted in sign language with dramatic interpretations performed for four poems.
- Contributor: Voigt, Ellen Bryant - Peck, John - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Meredith, William - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1980-01-01
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Audio RecordingDenise Levertov reading her poems with comment in New York City, June 15, 1958 Includes discussion. Given to the Library of Congress in 1959 by Lee Anderson for inclusion in the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 143. Preservation master. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973. On 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 1 track, mono. ; 10 in.
- Contributor: Levertov, Denise - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1958-01-01
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Audio RecordingJascha Kessler reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Jan. 19, 1960 Mr. Kessler reads nineteen poems from his collection, The natural history of love, which is a provisional title of a book of poems unpublished at the time of reading. Also includes a discussion with Richard Eberhart.
- Contributor: Kessler, Jascha Frederick - Eberhart, Richard - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1960-01-01
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Audio RecordingStanley Kunitz reading his poems with comment in the Coolidge Auditorium, Mar. 21, 1960 Sponsored by the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 135. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.
- Contributor: Kunitz, Stanley - Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1960-01-01
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Audio RecordingMelville Cane reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, Mar. 25, 1960 Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Literary recordings, rev., enl. ed., p. 33. Cataloging based on container/printed material/LC paperwork.
- Contributor: Cane, Melville - Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1960-01-01
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Audio RecordingCharles Tomlinson reading his poems in the Recording Laboratory, April 18, 1960 Mr. Tomlinson reads eleven poems for his collection, Seeing is believing and the uncollected poem, Winter encounters.
- Contributor: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Tomlinson, Charles
- Date: 1960-01-01
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Audio RecordingMuna Lee de Muñoz Marín reading her poems in the Recording Laboratory, April 25, 1960 Recorded for the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature. Literary recording, rev., enl. ed., p. 141-142. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature (Library of Congress) - Lee, Muna
- Date: 1960-01-01