Woodberry Poetry Room
The Woodberry Poetry Room is one of the largest A/V archives for poetry recordings in the United States and a lively literary center at Harvard University---free and open to the public.
Founded in 1931, the archive includes recordings of such authors as John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley, E. E. Cummings, Robert Duncan, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Galway Kinnell, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Seamus Heaney, Jack Kerouac, Audre Lorde, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Olson, Sylvia Plath, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens, Cecilia Vicuña, Ocean Vuong, and Raúl Zurita.
The WPR YouTube channel features a wide array of public programs (readings, seminars, oral histories, and lectures) hosted by the Poetry Room since 2011.
For more information, visit http://library.harvard.edu/libraries/poetryroom.
T. S. ELIOT MEMORIAL READING: Cecilia Vicuña (October 24, 2024)
BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON: Reading & Conversation with Dan Chiasson (October 17, 2024)
OTHER INFLUENCES: A Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry Reading (October 10, 2024)
BOSTON ORIGINALS: Fall 2024 Reading (September 24, 2024)
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: On the Grolier Poetry Book Shop (April 15, 2024)
RECORDING SESSION: John Yau (April 15, 2024)
AN EVENING WITH NIKKI GIOVANNI (April 2, 2024)
ORAL HISTORY INITIATIVE: Reading & Conversation with Will Alexander (March 27, 2024)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Layli Long Soldier & Nicole Sealey (March 19, 2024)
WAX POETICS RECORDING SESSION: Erín Moure with Muriel Rukeyser (March 8, 2024)
BOSTON ORIGINALS: Spring 2024 Reading (February 29, 2024)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Forrest Gander & Fanny Howe (November 15, 2023)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Robin Coste Lewis & Brenda Hillman (October 30, 2023)
WAX POETICS RECORDING SESSION: Tongo Eisen-Martin with Audre Lorde (October 11, 2023)
T. S. ELIOT MEMORIAL READING: Kim Hyesoon with Don Mee Choi (October 2, 2023)
STRATIS HAVIARAS READING SERIES: Chen Chen & Angie Estes (April 19, 2023)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Alexis Pauline Gumbs & Susan Howe (April 12, 2023)
READING & DARK ROOM COLLECTIVE ORAL HISTORY: John Keene & Carl Phillips (April 6, 2023)
HUNTING & PECKING AWAY: On Mabel's Newfangled Typewriter & Emily's Newfangled Poems (March 21, 2023)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Hiromi Itō & Lynn Xu (February 13, 2023)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Solmaz Sharif & Divya Victor (October 19, 2022)
T. S. ELIOT MEMORIAL READING: Anne Waldman (December 8, 2023)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Rae Armantrout & Mary Ruefle (November 16, 2022)
STRATIS HAVIARAS READING SERIES: Jos Charles & Jana Prikryl (October 26, 2022)
CCVA Reading Series: Renee Gladman & Rosmarie Waldrop (November 3, 2022)
VOCARIUM READING SERIES: Laynie Browne & Victoria Chang (October 27, 2022)
A Humanitarian Aid Kit of War Songs: Iya Kiva & Halyna Kruk (May 20, 2022)
RETHINKING TRANSLATION: Tracy K. Smith on Translating the Poem of Yi Lei (March 1, 2022)
JOSHUA BENNETT BOOK PARTY (September 29, 2022)
RETHINKING TRANSLATION: A Conversation with Polina Barskova & Valzhyna Mort (February 15, 2022)