The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.

“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka

As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.

Harvard Vocarium Recording (1951)

"Gerontion" T. S. Eliot

"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot

"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot

"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot

"Journey of the Magi" T. S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot

In this installment of “Conversations in Diplomacy," the Future of Diplomacy Project's Faculty Chair Nicholas Burns is joined by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Ambassador Susan Thornton, former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for a conversation on the current situation on the Korean peninsula and prospects for a peaceful denuclearization.

Conversations in Diplomacy: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Ambassador Susan Thornton

The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is the hub of Harvard Kennedy School's research, teaching, and training in international security and diplomacy, environmental and resource issues, and science and technology policy.

In 2018, for the fifth year in a row, the Belfer Center was ranked the world's #1 University Affiliated Think Tank by University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.

Conversations in Diplomacy: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Ambassador Susan Thornton

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