100 Great Poems - Classic Poets &amp; Beatnik Freaks

0:59

Ballad of the Gypsy

0:52

The Road Not Taken

1:03

America

Walt Whitman

0:37

Recuerdo

1:26

Logan Heights and the World

Juan Felipe Herrera

4:35

The Secret of My Endurance

Charles Bukowski

2:16

The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg

Steven Vincent Benet

3:50

Love Recognized

Robert Penn Warren

1:15

Cities of the Red Night

2:58

American Haikus (Excerpt)

Jack Kerouac

6:08

Lester Leaps In

1:07

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1:37

Monet Refuses the Operation

Lisel Mueller

2:28

The Colonel

Carolyn Forche

2:43

Ode to My Shoes

Erica Jong

1:52

The Old Flame

1:59

The Children's Undercroft

Donald Revell

1:59

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Michael Harper

2:33

Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...

0:38

Uh Oh Plutonium

Anne Waldman

3:13

Scars

0:44

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1:09

My Sisters, O My Sisters

May Sarton

2:57

So and So Reclining On Her Couch

Wallace Stevens

2:10

My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud

Li-Young Lee

2:26

In Our Time

0:21

It Is

0:40

Birches

3:03

In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)

W.H. Auden

1:49

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1:54

Despisals

1:35

If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love

3:17

I Am Offering You This Poem

1:21

We Were So Poor...

0:30

Junky Relations

1:59

This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...

0:19

Bird-Witted

Marianne Moore

2:15

Tia Chucha

1:48

I Killed a Fly...

0:29

Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man

Ogden Nash

2:03

Epilogue

1:25

Wonder

Sharon Olds

1:37

Prayer

0:30

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

0:49

I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...

0:35

Elegy for Jane

1:13

The Song of the Old Mother

0:51

Sonnet for Minimalists

Mona Van Duyn

0:43

This Is Number 26

1:24

What About Dying?...

0:50

King of the River

Stanley Kunitz

3:20

Mulatto

1:37

Odysseus to Telemachus

Joseph Brodsky

1:40

The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer

1:29

Crossing Over

William Meredith

2:16

Skunk Hour

2:25

Wild Gratitude

Edward Hirsch

2:55

For Poets

0:41

Shame

1:49

To Juan At the Winter Solstice

Robert Graves

2:21

Berck-Plage

6:28

Translator's Son

0:43

To Elsie

2:32

Everybody Knows the Story...

0:40

Rough

0:53

Love Is Not All

1:12

Parsley

Rita Dove

4:14

The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...

0:23

For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Joy Harjo

4:14

I Knew a Woman

1:46

Winter

1:12

Last Gods

2:00

Song

John Ashbery

1:27

The Tent People of Beverly Hills

James Ragan

2:49

Leaving Early

2:26

Happiness

John Ciardi

1:48

The Sweat Lodge

1:08

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

1:28

Tia Sophia

Carmen Tafolla

3:11

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

3:39

A Dance for Militant Diletantes

1:29

The Red Wheelbarrow

0:15

Underwear

3:32

America

Allen Ginsberg

8:45

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)

Ezra Pound

4:57

Raisin Eyes

Luci Tapahonso

1:42

The Gift Outright

0:53

Thoughts During an Air Raid

1:32

One Kiss

Tess Gallagher

1:54

The Ballad of Orange and Grape

2:44

I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face

Diane Wakoski

6:42

The Lost Pilot

James Tate

1:56

Clem Snide

4:57

The Concrete River

3:33

Thanksgrieving

Howard Nemerov

1:28

If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)

Gertrude Stein

3:37

See It Was Like This When...

0:42

The Seasons

1:30

100

Apology

0:36

Next to of Course God America

0:59

Ballad of the Gypsy

0:52

The Road Not Taken

1:03

America

Walt Whitman

0:37

Recuerdo

1:26

Logan Heights and the World

Juan Felipe Herrera

4:35

The Secret of My Endurance

Charles Bukowski

2:16

The Opening of the Battle of Gettysburg

Steven Vincent Benet

3:50

Love Recognized

Robert Penn Warren

1:15

Cities of the Red Night

2:58

American Haikus (Excerpt)

Jack Kerouac

6:08

Lester Leaps In

1:07

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

1:37

Monet Refuses the Operation

Lisel Mueller

2:28

The Colonel

Carolyn Forche

2:43

Ode to My Shoes

Erica Jong

1:52

The Old Flame

1:59

The Children's Undercroft

Donald Revell

1:59

Dear John, Dear Coltrane

Michael Harper

2:33

Here I Am With Mike in Hand, Shooting Down the Rapids...

0:38

Uh Oh Plutonium

Anne Waldman

3:13

Scars

0:44

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

1:09

My Sisters, O My Sisters

May Sarton

2:57

So and So Reclining On Her Couch

Wallace Stevens

2:10

My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud

Li-Young Lee

2:26

In Our Time

0:21

It Is

0:40

Birches

3:03

In Memory of W.B. Yeats (Part 1)

W.H. Auden

1:49

Love Calls Us to the Things of This World

1:54

Despisals

1:35

If I Were Tickled By the Rub of Love

3:17

I Am Offering You This Poem

1:21

We Were So Poor...

0:30

Junky Relations

1:59

This Is the Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...

0:19

Bird-Witted

Marianne Moore

2:15

Tia Chucha

1:48

I Killed a Fly...

0:29

Portrait of the Artist As a Prematurely Old Man

Ogden Nash

2:03

Epilogue

1:25

Wonder

Sharon Olds

1:37

Prayer

0:30

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

0:49

I Was Stolen By the Gypsies...

0:35

Elegy for Jane

1:13

The Song of the Old Mother

0:51

Sonnet for Minimalists

Mona Van Duyn

0:43

This Is Number 26

1:24

What About Dying?...

0:50

King of the River

Stanley Kunitz

3:20

Mulatto

1:37

Odysseus to Telemachus

Joseph Brodsky

1:40

The Fine Printing On the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer

1:29

Crossing Over

William Meredith

2:16

Skunk Hour

2:25

Wild Gratitude

Edward Hirsch

2:55

For Poets

0:41

Shame

1:49

To Juan At the Winter Solstice

Robert Graves

2:21

Berck-Plage

6:28

Translator's Son

0:43

To Elsie

2:32

Everybody Knows the Story...

0:40

Rough

0:53

Love Is Not All

1:12

Parsley

Rita Dove

4:14

The World Is So Difficult to Give Up...

0:23

For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash

Joy Harjo

4:14

I Knew a Woman

1:46

Winter

1:12

Last Gods

2:00

Song

John Ashbery

1:27

The Tent People of Beverly Hills

James Ragan

2:49

Leaving Early

2:26

Happiness

John Ciardi

1:48

The Sweat Lodge

1:08

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps

1:28

Tia Sophia

Carmen Tafolla

3:11

Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

3:39

A Dance for Militant Diletantes

1:29

The Red Wheelbarrow

0:15

Underwear

3:32

America

Allen Ginsberg

8:45

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Excerpt)

Ezra Pound

4:57

Raisin Eyes

Luci Tapahonso

1:42

The Gift Outright

0:53

Thoughts During an Air Raid

1:32

One Kiss

Tess Gallagher

1:54

The Ballad of Orange and Grape

2:44

I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face

Diane Wakoski

6:42

The Lost Pilot

James Tate

1:56

Clem Snide

4:57

The Concrete River

3:33

Thanksgrieving

Howard Nemerov

1:28

If I Told Him (A Completed Portrait of Picasso)

Gertrude Stein

3:37

See It Was Like This When...

0:42

The Seasons

1:30

100

Apology