Essential American Poets

Poetry

Listen to Donald Hall's selection of classic American poets reading from their work. These recordings are being made available as the result of a collaboration between US and UK poet laureates Donald Hall and Andrew Motion.

Episodes

Lorine Niedecker: Essential American Poets

Gertrude Stein: Essential American Poets

Charles Simic: Essential American Poets

Alan Dugan: Essential American Poets

Gary Snyder: Essential American Poets

Adrienne Rich: Essential American Poets

Richard Hugo: Essential American Poets

Robert Pinsky: Essential American Poets

Michael Palmer: Essential American Poets

A.R. Ammons: Essential American Poets

Jorie Graham: Essential American Poets

Robinson Jeffers: Essential American Poets

Carolyn Kizer: Essential American Poets

Muriel Rukeyser: Essential American Poets

Robert Creeley: Essential American Poets

Lucille Clifton: Essential American Poets

Mona Van Duyn: Essential American Poets

Kenneth Rexroth: Essential American Poets

Louis Simpson: Essential American Poets

Wallace Stevens: Essential American Poets