Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 28, 2007.

B. H. Fairchild's poetry has appeared in The Paris Reveiw, The New Yorker, and The Yale Review. He grew up in small towns in Texas, Oklahoma, and southwest Kansas. His books include The Arrival of the Future, The Art of the Lathe, and most recently, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems. He is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Lannan Foundations, and a National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Length: 1:22:42; Size: 37.9 MB

Featuring Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Terrance Hayes, Patricia Smith, and Frank X Walker.

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on November 15th, 2006.

Toi Derricotte, co-founder of Cave Canem, is the author of five books. Her books of poetry include Natural Birth, Captivity, and Tender.

Cornelius Eady is the author of six books of poetry including You Don’t Miss Your Water, The Autobiography of a Jukebox, and Brutal Imagination, and is co-founder of Cave Canem.

Terrance Hayes is the author of Hip Logic, Muscular Music and most recently, Wind in a Box.

Patricia Smith’s latest poetry book is Teahouse of the Almighty. She is also the author of Life According to Motown.

Frank X Walker was awarded a Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2005. His poetry books include Buffalo Dance:The Journey of York and the Black Box.

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Length: 2:10:36; Size: 59.8 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 25th, 2006.

Mary Oliver's poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. Her recent books include Owls and Other Fantasies, Why I Wake Early, and New and Selected Poems, Volume Two. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing." Oliver lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

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Length: 1:24:06; Size: 38.5 MB

Recorded in Santa on February 16th, 2005.

Louise Glück was appointed the 2003 Poet Laureate of the U.S. and received a Pulitzer Prize for her work in 1993. In this program, she reads three new unpublished poems as well as a selection of poems from previous volumes, before joining in conversation with fellow poet, James Longenbach.

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Length: 1:13:57; Size: 35.5 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on May 17th, 2006.

Born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Stuart Dybek writes of characters so ethnic and working-class that they would have appealed to Nelson Algren and his poolroom pals. In his novels, short stories, and poetry, Dybek reflects the magic of ethnicity and the power which oral storytelling has to fashion new myths. After reading from his work, Dybek joins in conversation with Michael Silverblatt, host and producer of the premier literary talk show on radio, Bookworm.

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Length: 1:10:52; Size: 34.0 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on January 21st, 2004.

Eavan Boland has said, "I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience." Boland is a renowned Irish poet and director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford. In this event, she reads from a wide range of her work before sharing a conversation with fellow poet, Nicholas Jenkins.

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Length: 1:17:45; Size: 37.3 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on March 30th, 2005.

Campbell McGrath, the MacArthur Fellowship winning poet and devotee of the road trip, brings his quirky and inventive mind to voice his fascination with the high and low of American culture. In this program he reads a variety of poems from his six published books, before joining in conversation with Michael Silverblatt of Bookworm.

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Length: 1:23:29; Size: 40 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on April 19th, 2006.

The poet C.D.Wright can be described as an experimental writer, a Southern writer, and a socially committed writer whose work is rooted in the landscape and people of her childhood in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas. After reading from her work, Ms. Wright joins in conversation with poet, essayist and literary critic, Stephen Burt.

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Length: 1:04:28; Size: 30.9 MB

Recorded in Santa Fe on January 18th, 2006.

These two nationally recognized poets, these two long-time friends, have collaborated on two books, the most recent being Braided Creek. In this program, they each read from the book without identifying whose work it is they are reading. In short, evocative and often very funny works, the two friends comment of the state of the world, their health, the weather, and all the while their joy in friendship comes to life.

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[Length: 1:13:53; Size: 35.5 MB]

Recorded in Santa Fe, May 4th, 2005.

Poet Pattiann Rogers has a singular voice, grounded in personal faith yet seduced equally by the mysteries of the natural world and the opportunities of discovery and beauty offered by science. The author of eleven volumes of poetry, she reads here from her work before joining in conversation with fellow poet Christopher Merrill.

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Length: 1:25:27; Size: 41.0 MB