When in need: Dial-a-Poem

Vito Acconci

• “Hello.” 2:05
• “There, Then.” 1:52
• “Pronouncing.” 1:25
• “Hair, Forehead.” 2:06
• “Small.” 2:00

Kathy Acker

• “I Was Walking Down the Street.” 2:30

Helen Adam

• “Cheerless Junkie Song.” 2:45

Miguel Algarin

• “Setanta y Cinco Abriles.” 1:43

Laurie Anderson

• “Born Never Asked.” 4:30
• “Closed Circuits.” 7:26
• “Dr. Miller.” 4:22
• “It Was Up in the Mountains.” 2:49
• “For Electronic Dogs.” 3:14
• “Structuralist Filmmaker.” 1:12
• “Drums.” :30

Penny Arcade

• “Two Poems.”

John Ashbery

• “Definitions of Blue.” 1:48
• “Civilizations and Its Discontent.” 1:56
• “The Tennis Courty Oath.” 1:58
• “Our Youth.” 1:49

Amiri Baraka

• “Our Nation Is Ourselves.” 4:42
• “Wailers.” 4:45

Bill Berkson

• “Stanky.” 1:36
• “Leave Cancelled.” 1:30
• “Sheerstrips.” 1:40

Charles Bernstein

• “Wall As.” 2:48

Ted Berrigan

• “Flying from London to New York.” 1:48
• “Report” and “Things to Do in New York City.” 1:58
• “To Jack Kerouac.” 0:55
• “Excerpt Memorial Day.” 3:53

Joe Brainard

• “I Remember the Day when Joe Kennedy Was Shot.” 1:46
• “I Remember Sack Dresses.” 1:45
• “I Remember Liberace.” 1:49
• “I Remember What I Thought if You Do Anything Bad.” 1:49
• “I Remember When Fiber Glass.” 1:36
• “I Remember Organ Music.” 1:47
• “I Remember My First Attempt at a Three-some.” 1:55
• “I Remember That My Father Scratched His Balls a Lot.” 1:40

Michael Brownstein

• “This First Is Called Legend of the Stone Outlaw.” 1:45
• “Time & Space.” 2:08

William Burroughs

• “Twilight’s Last Gleamings.” 2:56
• “Benway.” 0:43
• “The Laboratory Has Been Locked for Three Hours Solid.” 2:14
• “From Here to Eternity.” 3:51
• “I Was Traveling with the Nova Kids on the Intolerable Lark.” 8:39
• “The Do-Rights.” 3:39
• “Ah Pook Is the Mayan God of Death.” 12:36
• “When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President.” 7:12
• “The Chief Smiles.” 6:53
• “The Green Nun.’ 3:34

David Byrne

• “Song for the Trees (or) Sometimes I Think the World Is Wrong.” 3:25

Cabaret Voltaire

• “Ride Baby Ride.” 7:13

John Cage

• “Shall I Give Up Mushrooms and Study Trees.” 2:09
• “In Connection with Space Travel.” 1:45
• “Earth a City as Paris Was.” 1:20
• “U.S. Citizens Are 6% of the World’s Population.” 1:20
• “People Always Want to Know What You’re Doing.” 2:00
• “Here We Are Now.” 1:57
• “Eventually Everything Will Happen at Once.” 2:00
• “We’re Getting Rid of the Habit We Had.” 2:00
• “Music’s Not Waiting.” 1:58

Jim Carroll

• “The Scumbag Machine.” 1:55
• “The Basketball Diary February 4 1965.” 1:59
• “August 7 1965.” 1:27
• “November 6 1962.” 1:45
• “This Is Part of a Diary from 1962.” 2:01

Nick Cave

• “The Atra Viago.” 5:40

Tom Clark

• “Little Aria.” 0:38

Clark Coolidge

• “Dews (2-Channel Version) Excerpt.” 1:52
• “Saying Excerpt.” 1:56

Gregory Corso

• “Marriage.” 7:20

Jane Cortez

• “I See Chuno Pozo.” 6:20

Robert Creely

• “The Name.” 1:14

Diane Di Prima

• “Revolutionary Letter #3.” 2:05
• “Revolutionary Letter #5.” 1:52
• “Revolutionary Letter #7 & 12.” 1:48
• “Revolutionary Letter #13 & 20.” 2:06
• “Revolutionary Letter #16 & 18.” 1:55
• “Revolutionary Letter #21 & 22.” 1:44

Ed Dorn

• “Recollections of Grand Apacharia.” 4:28

Robert Duncan

• “To Speak My Mind, We Convivial in What Is Ours.” 2:40

Kenward Elmslie

• “Easter for Joe.” 1:50

Karen Finley

• “Party Animal.”

Four Horsemen

• “The Dreams Remain.” 2:35

Diamanda Galas

• “Eyes without Blood.” 2:42

Allen Ginsberg

• “Why Is God Love Jack After Yeats.” 1:33
• “Morning.” 1:53
• “I’m a Victim of Telephones.” 1:34
• “Mantras Hare Krishna.” 2:00
• “Shiva.” 2:05
• “CIA Dope Calypso.” 4:00

John Giorno

• “Berlin & Chernobyl.” 1:30
• “Hi Risques.” 1:55
• “Just Say No to Family Values.” 2:30
• “The Death of William Burroughs.” 7:30
• “Everyone Gets Lighter.” 2:00
• “There Was a Bad Tree.” 10:21
• “Thanx 4 Nothing.” 9:24

Daniela Gioseffi

• “Eggs.” 5:07

Philip Glass

• “A Secret Solo.” 2:17

Barbara Guest

• “Doorbells, Passage.” 2:00

Brion Gysin

• “I Am That I Am.” 1:58
• “Kick That Habit.” 1:04
• “Like You Just Said.” 1:55
• “But Then the Question Is…In the Words of the Divine Tautology”.
• “Junk Aint No Culture Junk Aint No Good.” 2:00

Jessica Hagedorn

• “Tenement.” 6:35

Deborah Harry

• “Moroccan Rock.” 4:22

Bernard Heidsieck

• “Canal Street #4.” 1973

David Henderson

• “In Summer Homes Near Water Barges.” 1:44
• “Election Day Poem.” 1:22
• “Berkeley Fall 1968.” 1:32
• “Ruckus Poem, Louisiana, New Orleans 1967, Part 1.” 2:00
• “Ruckus Poem, Louisiana, New Orleans 1967, Part 2.” 1:40
• “Ruckus Poem, Louisiana, New Orleans 1967, Part 3.” 1:47
• “Three Poems for Malcom X.” 1:45

Bob Holman

• “When I’m Talking There Is Something I Have to Tell You…” 1:40
• “Rap It Up.” 5:31

Hüsker Dü

• “Won’t Change.” 1:52

Lenore Kandel

• “This Next Poem I Really Hadn’t Planned to Read Tonight. Poem for Tyrants.” 1:58
• “This Poem Is Entitled Independence Day.” 2:05

Kenneth Koch

• “Spring.” 1:33

Denise Levertov

• “Life at War.” 3:15

Frank Lima

• “The Hunter.” 1:36

Jackson MacLow

• “4 A Symmetries from 1960–1961.” 1:57
• “6 Symmetries from 1960–1961.” 1:50

Bernadette Mayer

• “It Was Finished in Rose Velvet.” 1:45
• “It Moves across the Ground.”
• “The Red Rose Does/The Red Rose Doesn’t.” 1:55
• “Studying Hunger.” 3:31

Michael McClure

• “Lion Poem.” 2:08

Taylor Mead

• “Motorcycles.” 1:52
• “I Have Entered a Permanent Zonk.” 1:59
• “Where Do You Buy Love?” 1:59

Frank O’Hara

• “This Poem Is from the Love Poems. Having A Coke with You.” 1:58
• “I Am Frank O’ Hara, Chez Jane.” 1:39
• “Ode To Joy.” 2:05
• “To Hell with It.” 2:00
• “Naptha.” 1:38
• “The next two poems are walking around New York type of poems…” 1:47
• “To the Film Industry in Crisis 1.” 2:00

Maureen Owen

• “Body Rush.” 0:52

Ron Padgett

• “Falling in Love in Spain & Mexico.” 1:55
• “Wonderful Things” and “Limerick.” 1:32
• “After the Broken Arms Words for Joe Vceravoulo.” 1:49

Miquel Pinero

• “New York City Hard Times Blues.” 7:40

Lennox Raphael

• “Ok the Morning of November ’67.” 1:32
• “The Evil Eyes on the Floor.” 1:23
• “Shalom Dream Visit.” 1:55

Rene Ricard

• “Famous at 20.” 2:53

Jerome Rothenberg

• “Horse Song #11.” 2:00

Aram Saroyan

• “Here’s a Poem That Sort of Happened By Getting into Concrete Poetry.” 1:40
• “What Didn’t You Understand.” 2:00

Peter Schjeldahl

• “To the National Arts Council.” 2:09
• “Life Studies.” 1:35

John Sinclair

• “I’m Going To Read a Love Poem.” 1:43
• “It’s Called the Destruction of America 2.” 1:50

Patti Smith

• “Parade.” 6:07
• “7 Ways of Going from the Histories of the Universe.” 7:43

Gary Snyder

• “Anasazi, Wild Mushroom, One Should Not Speak To.” 6:00
• “What You Should Know to Be a Poet.” 3:35

Sonic Youth

• “Halloween.” 5:02

Jack Spicer

• “Excerpt from Billy the Kid.” 3:34

Lorenzo Thomas

• “High Heel Jesus.” 1:22

Tony Towle

• “Daybreak.” 1:34
• “Voice 1968.” 1:32

Paul Violi

• “Whalefeathers.” 1:52

Andrei Vosnesensky

• “I Am Goya Song of Moscow Ancient Bells.” 5:55

Tom Waits

• “The Pontiac.” 2:03

Diane Wakowski

• “Everything Boils Down To Diamonds Sometimes Even My Knees Smile.” 2:12
• “Sometimes Even My Knees Smile.” 2:02

Anne Waldman

• “What Is It? Late Mescaline Sonnet Dark Command.” 1:50
• “How the Sestine Yawn Works.” 1:35
• “Fast Speaking Woman.” 5:32

Lewis Warsh

• “Home.” 1:35
• “Song.” 2:06
• “Shawdows Good times.” 1:32

Philip Whelan

• “If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Rich.” 1:56

John Wieners

• “To Martyrium Candidatius.” 1:40
• “Memories in a Small Apartment.” 4:36
• “In Public.” 0:55

Emmett Williams

• “Do You Remember When I Loved.” 1:44
• “A Fragment Preserved for Sentimental Reasons.” 1:58
• “Duet.” 1:43

Frank Zappa

• “The Talking Asshole Naked Lunch.” 5:27