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The Poetry Center of Chicago : Room at the Table
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Featuring selections from the Poetry Center's Audio Archives - including Lucile Clifton, Billy Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, and others - this compilation of poetry and conversation highlights some of the best from a series spanning more than 3
Genre: Spoken Word: Poetry
Release Date: 2006
Room at the Table © Copyright-The Poetry Center of Chicago
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Billy Collins: On Turning Ten 1:51 Not Available
Andrei Codrescu: Two Desert Monks Encounter The Christ of Happi 4:06 Not Available
Ron Padgett: Tom and Jerry Graduate from High School 3:03 Not Available
Lucile Clifton: Slave Ships 1:19 Not Available
Lucile Clifton: Q&A 1:36 Not Available
Mark Perlberg: The Revenant 2:28 Not Available
Li-Young Lee: Every Circle Wider 1:55 Not Available
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: History of the Airplane 3:22 Not Available
Anne Waldman: I remember 3:34 Not Available
Yusef Komunyakaa: Thanks 1:21 Not Available
Lisel Mueller: Alive Together 3:42 Not Available
Lisel Mueller: Q&A 2:15 Not Available
Anne Waldman: Global Positioning 3:15 Not Available
Ted Kooser: A Box of Pastels 2:41 Not Available
Ted Kooser: Q&A 1:09 Not Available
Billy Collins: Litany 1:51 Not Available
Lucile Clifton: What I think About When I Ride the Train 3:27 Not Available
Paul Carroll: Father 3:30 Not Available
Li-Young Lee: My Father in Heaven is Reading Out Loud 3:59 Not Available
Mark Perlberg: In the Theater of Memory 2:56 Not Available
Yusef Komunyakaa: My Father's Love Letters 1:25 Not Available
Jorie Graham: The Hiding Place 5:38 Not Available
Jorie Graham: Q&A 2:00 Not Available
Paul Hoover: The Prolific and the Devourer 2:14 Not Available
Ted kooser: A Deck of pornographic Playing Cards 2:00 Not Available
Andrei Cordescu: July 26th, 1999 1:35 Not Available
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Blinf Poet 3:14 Not Available
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AWARD-WINNING POETS FEATURED ON POETRY CENTER’S ROOM AT THE TABLE CD The Poetry Center of Chicago announces the debut of Room at the Table, a new CD that features live readings culled from the Audio Archives of The Poetry Center’s venerable 34-year-old reading series. Room at the Table includes work from some of the best and brightest literary lights in contemporary poetry such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Billy Collins, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lisel Mueller, Jorie Graham, Lucille Clifton, Ted Kooser and many others. The Room at the Table CD is a product of The Poetry Center’s newly initiated Audio Archive project. Selected readings from The Poetry Center’s extensive audio catalog are digitized to preserve the performances; the best tracks from those recordings are placed on the CD.

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