Articles in Video
Denise Duhamel Reads
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Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at …
T. S. Eliot reads “Journey of the Magi” – Christmas Poem
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A rare recording taken from a live interview T. S. Eliot did for the BBC, broadcast during World War II.
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was …
Charles Potts discusses books and reads.
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Charles Potts, is an American counter-culture poet. He is sometimes referred to as a projectivist poet and was mentored by Edward Dorn. Raised in rural Mackay, Idaho, Potts left Pocatello, …
Bill Murray Reads Wallace Stevens
On June 11th, Poets House hosted The 17th Annual Poetry Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge. The event features readings of the poetry of Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes and …
David Berman reads @ Gainesville.
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On Oct 20th, 2011 David Berman read some new work @ the Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Avenue, and University of Florida campus, Gainesville.
Billy Collins reads.
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Billy Collins reads his poem called “Litany” regarding stealing lines, etc. from other poets.
Litany
You are the bread and the knife,
The crystal goblet and the wine…
-Jacques Crickillon
You are the bread and …
Henry Miller on Death
Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer and painter. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms and developing a new sort …
A Robert Bly poem.
Robert Bly was born in western Minnesota in 1926 to parents of Norwegian stock. He enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and spent two years there. After one year at …
Frank Stanford poem.
Frank Stanford (August 1, 1948 – June 3, 1978) was a prolific American poet. He is most known for his epic, The Battlefield Where The Moon Says I Love You— …
Frank O’Hara Reads
Frank O’Hara, the son of Russell Joseph O’Hara and Katherine (née Broderick, was born on March 27, 1926, at Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore and grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts. He …
Langston Hughes Poetry
Hughes worked various odd jobs, before serving a brief tenure as a crewman aboard the S.S. Malone in 1923, spending six months traveling to West Africa and Europe.In Europe, Hughes …
Stock footage of Hemingway
It was either six or eight flights up to the top floor and it was very cold and I knew how much it would cost for a bundle of small twigs, three wire-wrapped packets of short, half-pencil length pieces of split pine to catch fire from the twigs, and then the bundle of half-dried lengths of hard wood that I must buy to make a fire that would warm the room.
Leo Tolstoy footage
Tolstoy was born in Yasnaya Polyana, the family estate in the Tula region of Russia. The Tolstoys were a well-known family of old Russian nobility. He was the fourth of …
Reading by Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles) grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953.[5] She went on to study on a scholarship at …
Diane Seuss on Creativity
Di Seuss is Writer in Residence in the Department of English at Kalamazoo College. New Issues Press published her first book, It Blows You Hollow, and her poems have been …
Kurt Vonnegut Interview
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to third-generation German-American parents, Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., and Edith Lieber.[3] Both his father and his grandfather attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology and …
Gregory Corso Reads
Gregory Corso
Gregory Nunzio Corso was born in New York’s Greenwich Village on March 26, 1930, to teenage Italian parents. A year later, his mother moved back to Italy. …
Janine Pommy Vega reads.
Janine Pommy Vega (February 5, 1942 – December 23, 2010)[1] was an American poet associated with the Beats.
Vega grew up in Union City, New Jersey. At the age of fifteen, …
John Berryman Reads
John Berryman was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in …
Poem by James Tate to Anime
James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 8, 1943. His father was an American pilot killed in the Second World War in 1944, when Tate …
Billy Collins poem to anime.
Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941. He is the author of several books of poetry, including Ballistics (2008), She Was Just Seventeen (2006), The Trouble with …
William Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914(1914-02-05) – August 2, 1997; also known by his pen name William Lee) was an American novelist, poet, essayist and spoken word performer. Burroughs …
Ruth Stone.
In 1959, after her husband, professor Walter Stone, committed suicide, she was forced to raise three daughters alone. (As she has pointed out, her poems are “love poems, …
Gary Snyder talks about poetry.
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet (often associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance), as well as an essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist …
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
James Mercer Langston Hughes, (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the …
