I am happy to say that the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh has acquired, with the generous funding of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Audio Archive on compact disc for the International Poetry Collection housed at the Main branch. All items circulate for 3 weeks and this collection, coming as it does from one of our most esteemed poetry organizations, is an outstanding representation of contemporary poetry performance.
There are 39 volumes in the collection, including one three disc sampler set, which gives a good general overview.
- The Academy of American Poets Audio Archive Anthology
- Anthony Hecht
- Audre Lorde
- Carolyn Forché
- Charles Simic
- Charles Wright and Adrienne Rich
- Czeslaw Milosz
- David Wagoner and Carolyn Kizer
- Derek Walcott
- Frank Bidart and C. K. Williams
- Galway Kinnell
- Heather McHugh and Gerald Stern
- James Merrill
- James Wright
- John Ashbery
- Joseph Brodsky
- Larry Levis
- Li-Young Lee and Chase Twitchell
- Louise Bogan
- Louise Glück
- Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks
- Margaret Atwood
- Marilyn Hacker and June Jordan
- Mark Strand
- Maxine Kumin
- May Swenson
- Paul Muldoon and Les Murray
- Philip Levine
- Quincy Troupe
- Rita Dove and Rosanna Warren
- Robert Hass and Thom Gunn
- Robert Hayden
- Robert Lowell and John Berryman
- Robert Pinsky
- W. D. Snodgrass
- W. S. Merwin
- William Matthews
- William Stafford
- Yusef Komunyakaa and Sharon Olds
– Don
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