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Unterberg Poetry Center Archive


In a renewed effort to share with a wider contemporary audience some of the great literary moments which the Poetry Center has presented across the decades, this page (to be regularly updated) features archival recordings by some of the best writers of our time.

As Tony Kushner has said, "To participate in an event at the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y, onstage or as an audience member, is always an occasion of great joy and excitement for me. You are instantly connected to history and to the clamorous, contentious, vital present moment."

Unterberg Poetry Center webcasts and access to our archive are made possible in part by the generous support of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation.

Recently Added: Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Wilbur, Rosemary Harris, Paul Auster, Philip Levine, Rita Dove

A Celebration of Vladimir Nabokov with Martin Amis, Brian Boyd and Chip Kidd
November 16, 2009
Full Program: 1h:53m:18s
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Chinua Achebe with K. Anthony Appiah
October 19, 2009
Full Program: 1h:17m:18s
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Rosemary Harris: The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
September 26, 2009
Full Program: 52m:44s
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Richard Wilbur with Roger Rosenblatt
May 21, 2009
Excerpt: 8m:10s
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David Grossman on Bruno Schulz
May 4, 2009
Excerpt: 4m:09s
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E.L. Doctorow with Roger Rosenblatt
April 29, 2009
Excerpt: 8m:57s
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Nikolai Gogol at 200: Gary Shteyngart reads from Dead Souls
March 30, 2009
Excerpt: 20m:23s
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Cynthia Ozick with Roger Rosenblatt
October 29, 2008
Full Program: 1h:00m:02s
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Jorie Graham and Yusef Komunyakaa
October 16, 2008
Excerpt: 9m:16s
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Garrison Keillor and Roger Rosenblatt: Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
April 9, 2008
Full Program: 55m:47s
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Anne Carson
March 26, 2008
Full Program: 55m:47s
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Frank McCourt: Letters to a Young Writer
March 17, 2008
Excerpt: 13m:17s
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Alice McDermott with Roger Rosenblatt
January 30, 2008
Full Program: 55m:47s
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Robert Alter and Marilynne Robinson: The Psalms
December 17, 2007
Full Program: 1h:37m:11s
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Joyce Carol Oates: Content to Create a World of Mystery
November 9, 2007
Full Program: 1h:13m:12s
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
April 16, 2007
Full Program: 42m:50s
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Calvin Trillin and Frank McCourt
March 29, 2007
Full Program: 55m:19s
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Dave Eggers, Chip Kidd, Milton Glaser, Michael Bierut: The Art of the Book
December 4, 2006
Full Program: 1h:43m:57s
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Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
December 15, 2005
Full Program: 1h:10m:40s
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Billy Collins with Garrison Keillor
September 19, 2005
Excerpt: 11m:43s
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Norman Mailer
September 20, 2004
Excerpt: 12m:28s
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Doris Lessing: The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels
March 15, 2004
Excerpt: 32m:42s
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Paul Auster with Michael Wood: Writers At Work Live Interview
September 3, 2002
Full Program: 58m:02s
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David Mamet: Faustus
March 25, 2002
Full Program: 55m:47s
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Philip Levine: The Language of the Place
November 12, 2001
Excerpt: 31m:55s
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Rita Dove: On the Bus with Rosa Parks
May 17, 1999
Excerpt: 16m:38s
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Chinua Achebe: Against Blindness
January 17, 1994
Excerpt: 32m:12s
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Brian Boyd on Vladimir Nabokov: A Mastery of Particulars
December 5, 1992
Full Program: 1h:16m:43s
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A.S. Byatt: "Your Own Poet's Voice"
October 28, 1991
Excerpt: 24m:15s
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Adrienne Rich: What Kind of Times Are These
October 14, 1991
Excerpt: 4m:15s
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Richard Wilbur: Sweet Excess
May 5, 1985
Full Program: 1h:02m:59s
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Kurt Vonnegut: "Short Sentences and Placebo Profundities"
May 16, 1983
Excerpt: 40m:09s
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Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
May 4, 1970
Excerpt: 26m:54s
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Adrienne Rich: Mourning Poem, Spring Thunder, White Night and other poems
April 22, 1968
Excerpt: 35m:04s
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Galway Kinnell: First Song, The River That is East, Middle of the Way and other poems
November 29, 1965
Excerpt: 29m:24s
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Harold Pinter: Tea Party, New Year in the Midlands and other readings
November 12, 1964
Full Program: 1h:05m:41s
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Richard Wilbur
May 4, 1964
Full Program: 1h:00m:54s
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W.D. Snodgrass
March 28, 1963
Full Program: 1h:08m:32s
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Nadine Gordimer: A Style of Her Own, The Bridegroom
April 24, 1961
Full Program: 55m:36s
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