Arnold Rampersad reading "The Weary Blues"

Recorded by Eve L. Ewing for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 6, 2024. www.poets.org

Eve L. Ewing: "eschatology"

Recorded by Kelly Norman Ellis for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 14, 2024. www.poets.org

Kelly Norman Ellis: "Saturday Class: Janie Crawford is Grown"

Recorded by Tracy K. Smith for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 20, 2024. www.poets.org

Tracy K. Smith: "Everybody’s Autobiography"

Recorded by Alexis Pauline Gumbs for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 22, 2024. www.poets.org

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: "oriño ka-n-an manbo emalé"

Recorded by Kim Addonizio for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 12, 2024. www.poets.org

Kim Addonizio: "This Too Shall Pass"

Recorded by Patrick Rosal for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 13, 2024. www.poets.org

Patrick Rosal: "Yes It Will Rain (or Prayer for Our First Home)"

Recorded by Brenda Shaughnessy for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 14, 2024. www.poets.org

Brenda Shaughnessy: "2-Sided Map Shows Line Where Falling Bodies Will Land"

Recorded at the Academy of American Poets Chancellors Reading, Poets Forum, New York City, 2014. NYU Skirball Center.

Alberto Ríos: "When Giving Is All We Have"

Recorded by Colin Pope for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 15, 2024. www.poets.org

Colin Pope: "Lightning Bug"

Recorded by Hari Alluri for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 1, 2024. www.poets.org

Hari Alluri: "Spiral"

Recorded by Grace Iwashita-Taylor for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 2, 2024. www.poets.org

Grace Iwashita-Taylor: "Default Taupou"

Recorded by Donovan Kūhiō Colleps for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 3, 2024. www.poets.org

Donovan Kūhiō Colleps: "He Mea Māloʻeloʻe #3"

Recorded by Roger Reeves for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 30, 2024. www.poets.org

Roger Reeves: "Prayer to the Gods of the Night, II"

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 4, 2024. www.poets.org

Moses ibn Ezra: “Nachum: Spring Songs”

Recorded by Sarah McCartt-Jackson for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on May 5, 2024. www.poets.org

Sarah McCartt-Jackson: "Borrow"

Recorded on February 14, 2017, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Rita Dove: "Heart to Heart"

Recorded on May 15, 2017, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Ada Limón: "Instructions on Not Giving Up"

Recorded on November 23, 2017, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Joy Harjo: "Remember"

Recorded on April 19, 2018, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Chen Chen: "I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party"

Read by Terrance Hayes at Poetry & the Creative Mind, Lincoln Center, New York City, April 2018. From the Academy of American Poets Audio Archive. www.poets.org

Robert Hayden: "Those Winter Sundays," read by Terrance Hayes

Recorded on February 10, 2019, for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. www.poets.org

Kahlil Gibran: "On Joy And Sorrow"

Recorded by the Academy Staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 15, 2019. www.poets.org

Langston Hughes: "Dream Variations"

Derek Walcott reads his poem "A Far Cry from Africa".

15 October 1964, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Derek Walcott: "A Far Cry from Africa"

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Shelter in Poems, produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on June 30, 2020. www.poets.org

Langston Hughes: "I, Too"

Randall Jarrell reads Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish". 

Recorded on October 29, 1964, at the Guggenheim Museum. Elizabeth Bishop had been awarded a $5,000 fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, but was unable to leave Brazil to accept the prize herself. Randall Jarrell read a selection of Bishop's poems, as well as his own, in celebration. 

[10/29/1964 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]

Randall Jarrell reads Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

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