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2006: Harold Bloom – “The Catalan Poetic Tradition, from Ramon Llull to the Present” (Full Audio)

Recorded On: Saturday, February 11, 2006

Harold Bloom discusses the work of Salvador Espriu, Ramon Llull and Arnau March in his keynote address to Poets House’s Catalan Poetry Symposium: A Day Long Festival, an…

2006: Catalan Poetry Reading (Full Audio)

Recorded On: Saturday, February 11, 2006

Readings by Manuel Forcano, Francesc Parcerisas, Melcion Mateu, Marta Pessarrodona, and Jaume Subirana, with English…

2005: Poetry in the Branches National Institute Keynote Address by Robert Hass

Recorded On: Friday, December 2, 2005

Former U S Poet Laureate Robert Hass talks with librarians about the Laureate position, and ways in which to engage library users and the community with poetry. Part…

2005: Phillip Levine reads ‘By the road to the contagious hospital’ by William Carlos Williams

Recorded On: Thursday, September 22, 2005

Phillip Levine, 2011 US Poet Laureate, reads “By the road to the contagious hospital” by William Carlos Williams as part of the Poets House program Phillip…

2005: Phillip Levine reads and discusses ‘Between Walls’ by William Carlos Williams

Recorded On: Thursday, September 22, 2005

Phillip Levine reads and discusses “Between Walls” by William Carlos Williams as part of the Poets House program Phillip Levine on The Path to William Carlos Williams…

2005: Phillip Levine on the discovery of his Poetic Voice

Recorded On: Thursday, September 22, 2005

2011 US Poet Laureate Phillip Levine talks about how he came to poetry as part of the Poets House program Phillip Levine on The Path to William…

2005: Stanley Kunitz reads “The Portrait”

Recorded On: Monday, August 29, 2005

Poets House co-founder Stanley Kunitz discusses and reads his poem “The Portrait”

2005: Bill Murray reads Jackson Murray, Robert Francis, Billy Collins, Robert Creeley, and Frank O’Hara

Recorded On: Monday, June 13, 2005

Actor Bill Murray reads poems by his son Jackson Murray (“That was Summer”), Robert Francis (“Pitcher”), Billy Collins (“The Best Cigarette”), Robert Creeley (“Ballad of the Desperate Husband”)…

2005: Eamon Grennan on Emily Dickinson (Full Audio)

Recorded On: Saturday, May 21, 2005

Identity to Seek: The Selves of Emily — Irish poet Eamon Grennan discusses Dickinson as a poet who, “reveals to us, in her nature as a…

2005: Love in the Showcase: A Reading Celebrating Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets — Matthew Zapruder

Recorded On: Thursday, April 14, 2005

Matthew Zapruder reads poems by Meredith Walters, Robert Creeley as well as his own work as part of Love in the Showcase: A Reading Celebrating Isn’t It…