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PoemTalk #147, Discussing William Carlos Williams' "By the road to the contagious hospital", feat. Imaad Majeed, Irene Torra Mohedano, and Gabriel Ojeda-Sague

Listen to the complete recording and program notes for the episode at Jacket2

PoemTalk #30, Discussing William Carlos Williams' "Flowers by the Sea" and "The Red Wheelbarrow," March 28, 2010

Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2.

PoemTalk #1, Discussing William Carlos Williams' poem "Between Walls," December 2, 2007

Listen to the complete recording. See this [text-audio alignment]

Reading at National Poetry Festival, June 14-24, 1973

Poetry Workshop: Various Poets; "Translation Workshop"

The recordings below were originally compiled and published from Keele University, England, by Dr. Richard Swigg in 1992 and 1993. PennSound gratefully acknowledges the scholarship and editing of Dr. Swigg in making this Williams sound archive available.

Reading for the National Council of Teachers of English and Columbia University Press Contemporary Poets series. January 9, 1942

The Red Wheelbarrow (0:11): MP3
Tract (2:34): MP3
The Defective Record (0:28): MP3
To a Poor Old Woman (0:27): MP3
A Coronal (0:40): MP3
To Elsie (1:45): MP3
The Wind Increases (0:27): MP3
Classic Scene (0:28): MP3

Complete recording (7:04): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Reading for The Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. May 5, 1945

Sonnet 1909 (Martin and Katherine) (0:54): MP3
Paterson: The Falls (1:44): MP3
Peace on Earth (0:46): MP3
Postlude (1:01): MP3
Pastoral (When I was younger) (0:41): MP3
Pastoral (The little sparrows) (0:44): MP3
Dawn (0:45): MP3
Portrait of a Woman in Bed (1:12): MP3
Sympathetic Portrait of a Child (0:48): MP3
Spring Strains (1:09): MP3
Dedication for a Plot of Ground (incomplete) (1:34): MP3
Love Song (I lie here thinking of you) (0:35): MP3
Overture to a Dance of Locomotives (1:53): MP3
Complaint (0:42): MP3
The Cold Night (0:42): MP3
Primrose (1:04): MP3
Queen-Anne's-Lace (0:55): MP3
To a Friend Concerning Several Ladies (1:57): MP3
Youth and Beauty (0:27): MP3
The Thinker (0:34): MP3
The Nightingales (0:21): MP3
Widow's Lament in Springtime (0:55): MP3
Light Hearted William (0:31): MP3
Spring and All (1:04): MP3
The Farmer (0:40): MP3
The Eyeglasses (0:52): MP3
Shoot it Jimmy! (0:26): MP3
To Elsie (1:50): MP3
The Red Wheelbarrow (0:15): MP3
Rigamarole (0:57): MP3
It is a Living Coral (1:33): MP3
The Bull (0:51): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (0:46): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:32): MP3
The Yachts (2:12): MP3
The Term (0:25): MP3
A Sort of a Song (0:34): MP3
The Dance (In Brueghel's great picture) (0:38): MP3
Burning the Christmas Greens (2:30): MP3
In Sisterly Fashion (0:26): MP3
The World Narrowed to a Point (0:24): MP3
The Hounded Lovers (0:43): MP3
The Cure (0:40): MP3
The Rose (The stillness of the rose) (0:27): MP3
Perfection (0:32): MP3
The Last Turn (0:47): MP3
The Aftermath (0:39): MP3
The Yellow Chimney (0:52): MP3
Raleigh Was Right (0:53):MP3
A Night in June (12:55):MP3

Complete recording (57:37): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow" and "Flowers by the Sea" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Reading at NBC Studios, Washington DC, for the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory. October 18, 1947

The Semblables (1:59): MP3
The Catholic Bells (1:44): MP3
Perpetuum Mobile: The City (3:21): MP3
Paterson II iii: (excerpt) 'Look for the nul' to 'Alone, watching the May moon above the/trees' (2:45): MP3
Paterson I i: (excerpt) 'Paterson lies in the valley under the Passaic falls' to 'after a long flight to his cote' (7:42): MP3
Paterson I iii: (excerpt) 'There is no direction' to 'it drives in among the rocks fitfully' (10:40): MP3

Complete recording (28:14): MP3

Reading for a Columbia Records 78 rpm disc in the Series "Pleasure Dome: an audible anthology of modern poetry read by its creators," ed. by Lloyd Frankenberg. May 20, 1949

The Young Housewife (0:35): MP3
The Bull (0:46): MP3
Poem ('As the cat') (0:15): MP3
Lear (1:18): MP3
The Dance ('In Brueghel's great picture') (0:38): MP3
El Hombre (0:10) : MP3

Complete recording (3:45): MP3

Reading recorded by Richard Wirtz Emerson, 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, NJ. Probably broadcast in Voices, WOSU, Columbus. October 7, 1950

Choral: The Pink Church (3:04): MP3
Portrait of a Lady (0:45): MP3
Tract (2:50): MP3
Pastoral (0:40): MP3
A Poem for Norman Macleod (0:39): MP3
To Waken an Old Lady (0:32): MP3
The Red Wheelbarrow (0:16): MP3
This is Just to Say (0:20): MP3
The Bull (0:56): MP3
Perpetuum Mobile: The City (2:58): MP3
Poem ('As the cat') (0:43): MP3
Danse Russe (0:43): MP3 [text-audio alignment]
The Widow's Lament in Springtime (1:01): MP3
The Dance ('In Brueghel's great picture') (0:40): MP3
Lear (1:26): MP3
Mama (0:27): MP3
New Mexico (0:28): MP3
The Lion (1:20): MP3
St Francis Einstein of the Daffodils (1:41): MP3

Complete recording (21:27): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Reading and Commentary at UCLA. November 15, 1950

Introduction (1:47): MP3
In Sisterly Fashion (0:34): MP3
The Dance ('In Brueghel's great picture') (0:57): MP3
Franklin Square (0:49): MP3
Raleigh Was Right (1:01): MP3
Commentary (1:15): MP3
At the Faucet of June (1:18): MP3
The Universality of Things (0:54): MP3
Rigamarole (1:14): MP3
To Elsie (2:14): MP3
Spring and All (1:52): MP3
The Pot of Flowers (0:49): MP3
Commentary (3:14): MP3
It is a Living Coral (2:45): MP3
All the Fancy Things (0:37): MP3
Commentary (6:06): MP3
Paterson: The Falls (1:58): MP3
Commentary (3:06): MP3
Poem ('As the cat') (0:27): MP3
Between Walls (0:17): MP3
Conclusion (3:24): MP3

Complete recording (36:53): MP3

"Between Walls" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 1.

Reading and Commentary recorded by Eyvind Earle at his home in Hillview Park Avenue, Van Nuys, San Fernando Valley, California. November 16, 1950

In Sisterly Fashion (0:30): MP3
Tract (3:16): MP3
Smell! (1:00): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:40): MP3
The Poor (0:53): MP3
To Elsie (2:20): MP3
This is Just to Say (0:39): MP3
Impromptu: The Suckers (4:24): MP3
All the Fancy Things (0:37): MP3
It is a Living Coral (1:47): MP3
Young Sycamore (0:44): MP3
The Cod Head (0:57): MP3
The Bull (1:19): MP3
Poem ('As the cat') (0:17): MP3
Perpetuum Mobile: The City (3:25): MP3
The Widow's Lament in Springtime (1:10): MP3
Arrival (0:20): MP3
Great Mullen (1:17): MP3
Queen-Anne's-Lace (0:54): MP3
Overture to a Dance of Locomotives (incomplete) (0:41): MP3

Complete recording (27:51): MP3

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Interview on The Mary Margaret McBride Show, WJZ Radio. December 4, 1950

The Red Wheelbarrow (0:08): MP3
A Black Black Cloud (0:07): MP3

Complete recording (25:03): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Reading and Interview with John W. Gerber, January 13, 1951

Recorded by John W. Gerber at 9 Ridge Road, Rutherford, New Jersey in June 1950. Broadcast January 13, 1951 by either WNBC or WNYC.

A Black Black Cloud (0:05): MP3
Danse Russe (0:41): MP3
This is Just to Say (0:14): MP3
Ol' Bunk's Band (0:46): MP3
Portrait of a Lady (0:42): MP3
El Hombre (0:13): MP3

Complete Recording (48:10): MP3

Speech on presenting the Russell Loines Award for Poetry to John Crowe Ransom, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York. May 25, 1951

Complete recording (3:21): MP3

Reading and Commentary recorded by Kenneth Burke at his home in Andover, NJ. June 21, 1951

The Desert Music (13:09): MP3
The Cod Head (incomplete) (0:55): MP3
Burning the Christmas Greens (2:41): MP3
A Sort of a Song (0:31): MP3
Commentary on A Sort of a Song (): MP3
Paterson I iii (excerpt): 'How Strange you are, you idiot!' to 'his mind drinks of desire' (1:53): MP3
Tract (2:58): MP3
Apres le Bain (0:20): MP3
Spring is Here Again, Sir (1:13): MP3
May 1st Tomorrow (1:15): MP3

Complete recording (27:18): MP3

Interview on The Mary Margaret McBride Show, WABC Radio. September 26, 1951

A Black Black Cloud (0:07): MP3
Complete recording (26:59): MP3

Reading and Commentary at Harvard University. December 4, 1951

Commentary (1:46): MP3
A Marriage Ritual (1:39): MP3
Burning the Christmas Greens (2:36): MP3
The Visit (3:08): MP3
The Lion (1:15): MP3
Spring and All (2:01): MP3
This is Just to Say (two readings) (1:46): MP3
On Gay Wallpaper (0:45): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:51): MP3
To a Poor Old Woman (0:36): MP3
The Yachts (3:02): MP3
History (6:05): MP3
Virtue (1:00): MP3
Smell! (1:05): MP3
Struggle of Wings (incomplete) (2:33): MP3
To Greet a Letter-Carrier (0:20): MP3
At the Bar (0:19): MP3
These (1:37): MP3
Perfection (0:49): MP3
Fertile (0:21): MP3
Chanson (1:30): MP3
Design for November (0:52): MP3
Commentary (2:05): MP3
Picture of a Nude in a Machine Shop (0:52): MP3
The Hurricane (0:26): MP3
Venus Over the Desert (1:07): MP3
The Birth of Venus (4:16): MP3

Complete recording (45:52): MP3

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Paper read at the symposium "Will the Creative Arts Thrive or Degenerate during the Next Fifty Years?" Niagara Frontier Convocation, University at Buffalo.
December 7, 1951

Complete recording (12:59): Complete recording

Reading and Commentary at Princeton University. March 19, 1952

Introduction (9:04): MP3
Portrait of a Lady (0:56): MP3
El Hombre (0:27): MP3
Tract (3:19): MP3
Pastoral ('The little sparrow') (1:07): MP3
Smell! (1:05): MP3
Queen-Anne's-Lace (1:27): MP3
Great Mullen (1:40): MP3
Waiting (1:26): MP3
The Hunter (0:35): MP3
Arrival (0:26): MP3
The Widow's Lament in Springtime (1:07): MP3
Commentary (1:40): MP3
To Elsie (2:16): MP3
The Red Wheelbarrow (1:42): MP3
This is Just to Say (0:46): MP3
Poem ('As the cat') (1:47): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:53): MP3
To a Poor Old Woman (0:30): MP3
The Catholic Bells (1:46): MP3
The Sea-Elephant (1:52): MP3
Commentary (1:39): MP3
A Unison (2:42): MP3
Commentary (1:50): MP3
The Desert Music (15:33): MP3

Complete recording (58:43): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow" and "Flowers by the Sea" are also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

At the Conference of the Indiana College English Association, Hanover College, Indiana. May 16, 1952

Morning Address

Smell! (1:18): MP3
Paterson II iii (excerpt): "Look for the nul" to "endless and indestructible": (3:28): MP3

Complete Morning Address - Lecture, Reading, Commentary (35:06): MP3

Evening Address

Portent (0:55): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (1:34): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (1:00): MP3
Commentary (1:45): MP3
To a Mexican Pig- Bank (two readings) (1:37): MP3
To a Poor Old Woman (1:18): MP3
Pastoral ('When I was younger') (1:22): MP3
To Elsie (2:56): MP3
On Gay Wallpaper (1:39): MP3

Complete Evening Address - Reading and Commentary (18:04): MP3

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

[new] June 14, 1952 at Brandies, via Woodbery Poetry Room, Harvard.

Reading and Commentary at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA Poetry Center, New York. January 27, 1954

A Sort of Song (0:50): MP3
Burning the Christmas Greens (3:51): MP3
A Vision of Labor: 1931 (3:54): MP3
The Yellow Chimney (0:54): MP3
Franklin Square (two readings) (1:46): MP3
Labrador (1:11): MP3
The Apparition (1:10): MP3
The Maneuver (0:31): MP3
The Horse (0:44): MP3
The Act (1:10): MP3
Seafarer (1:16): MP3
The Three Graces (1:13): MP3
Commentary (1:51): MP3
Paterson: Episode 17 (6:18): MP3
Commentary (1:44): MP3
Ol' Bunk's Band (1:26): MP3
A Unison (3:13): MP3
The Descent (2:30): MP3
The Yellow Flower (5:02): MP3
The Host (5:06): MP3
Spring and All (1:50): MP3
The Orchestra (4:21): MP3
Between Walls (0:38): MP3
On Gay Wallpaper (1:45): MP3
Fish (6:05): MP3

Complete reading (1:15:46): MP3

"Between Walls" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 1.

Interview on The Mary Margaret McBride Show, WABC Radio. March 25, 1954

A Black Black Cloud (0:07): MP3
The Host (3:34): MP3
The Orchestra (3:36): MP3

Complete recording (10:24): MP3

Interview on the NBC radio series Anthology. March 26, 1954

The Descent (1:46): MP3
The Host (3:25): MP3
The Orchestra (3:33): MP3

Complete recording (21:10): MP3

Talk on the NBC radio series Collector's Item. March 28, 1954

Complete recording (5:03): MP3

Reading at his home in Rutherford, NJ. June 6, 1954

The Descent (1:40): MP3
To Daphne and Virginia (5:10): MP3
The Orchestra (3:48): MP3
For Eleanor and Bill Monahan (3:57): MP3
The Yellow Flower (3:03): MP3
The Host (3:30): MP3
Of Asphodel, That Greeny Flower I (excerpt): 'Of Asphodel, that greeny flower' to 'to sing to you'; 'My heart rouses' to end of Book I (0:55): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (0:57): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:30): MP3
The Yachts (3:06): MP3
The Catholic Bells (2:11): MP3
Smell! (1:10): MP3 [text-audio alignment]
Fish (5:06): MP3
Primrose (1:28): MP3
To Elsie (2:30): MP3
Between Walls (0:15): MP3 [text-audio alignment]
On Gay Wallpaper (0:47): MP3
The Red Lily (1:08): MP3
Seafarer (1:03): MP3

Complete reading (43:12): MP3

"Between Walls" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 1.

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Interview with Francis Mason on Voice of America, NBC Radio. June 18, 1954

Reads "The Descent" (7:20): MP3

Reading for the Voice of America, NBC Radio. 1954

Poem ('As the cat') (0:16): MP3
The Young Housewife (0:40): MP3
Light Hearted William (0:37): MP3
The Dance ('In Brueghel's great picture') (0:42): MP3
The Bull (0:55): MP3
The Yachts (2:45): MP3

Complete reading (5:59): Complete reading

Lecture: "The Modern Poem," Oreon E. Scott symposium, "The Writer and His Public," Washington University in St. Louis. May 8, 1955

Complete recording (57:02): MP3

Reading and Commentary at the University of California, Berkeley. May 19, 1955

Spring and All (1:28): MP3
Commentary (0:36): MP3
The Pot of Flowers (0:41): MP3
Commentary (1:08): MP3
Rain (2:22): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (1:19): MP3
Commentary (0:57): MP3
To a Mexican Pig-Bank (two readings) (0:58): MP3
To a Poor Old Woman (0:46): MP3
Commentary (0:36): MP3
The Catholic Bells (2:05): MP3
A Poem for Norman Macleod (1:33): MP3
Danse Russe (1:34): MP3
The Late Singer (0:40): MP3
Commentary (1:04): MP3
At the Faucet of June (1:14): MP3
The Avenue of Poplar (1:09): MP3
The Sun (1:26): MP3
A Sort of a Song (0:34): MP3
Commentary (0:38): MP3
The Dance ('In Brueghel's great picture') (0:49): MP3
Commentary (0:35): MP3
The Gentle Rejoinder (0:51): MP3
Seafarer (0:56): MP3
Commentary (0:44): MP3
May 1st Tomorrow (1:32): MP3
A Unison (2:51): MP3
Commentary (4:35): MP3
The Descent (1:51): MP3
To Daphne and Virginia (4:55): MP3
The Orchestra (3:37): MP3
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower I (excerpt): 'I speak in figures' to end of book I (3:22): MP3

Complete recording (50:59): MP3

Reading and Commentary at the University of California, Santa Barbara. June 1, 1955

Seafarer (1:02): MP3
A Unison (2:57): MP3
Commentary (5:49): MP3
The Descent (1:38): MP3
To Daphne and Virginia (5:31): MP3
The Orchestra (3:34): MP3
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower I (excerpt): 'I speak in figures' to end of book I (3:16): MP3
Commentary (3:32): MP3
The Ivy Crown (3:42): MP3
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower: Coda (5:09): MP3

Complete recording (38:14): MP3

Reading and Commentary at UCLA. May 1955

Introduction (5:42): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (0:59): MP3
Commentary (1:01): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:32): MP3
Commentary (1:25): MP3
Primrose (2:29): MP3
Commentary (1:35): MP3
Spring and All (1:31): MP3
Commentary (1:22): MP3
Commentary (0:56): MP3
To Elsie (2:25): MP3
Commentary (1:09): MP3
On Gay Wallpaper (0:58): MP3
Commentary (0:58): MP3
The Red Lily (1:13): MP3
Commentary (2:02): MP3
The Sun (1:34): MP3
Commentary (0:42): MP3
A Sort of a Song (0:38): MP3
Seafarer (1:31): MP3
Commentary (2:40): MP3
May 1st Tomorrow (2:06): MP3
A Unison (2:56): MP3
Commentary (2:03): MP3
The Sea-Elephant (2:15): MP3
Commentary (7:04): MP3
The Descent (1:47): MP3
Commentary (0:39): MP3
To Daphne and Virginia (4:49): MP3
Commentary (0:47): MP3
The Orchestra (3:36): MP3
Commentary (3:22): MP3
Shadows (3:40): MP3
Asphodel, that Greeny Flower: Coda (6:06): MP3

Complete recording (1:15:57): MP3

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Reading and Commentary recorded by Eyvind Earle at his home in Hillview Park Ave., San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys, California. May 1955.

Peace on Earth (0:46): MP3
The Botticellian Trees (1:01): MP3
Commentary (0:28): MP3
Flowers by the Sea (0:43): MP3
Commentary (0:42): MP3
Spring and All (1:27): MP3
On Gay Wallpaper (0:49): MP3
Commentary (0:50): MP3
Primrose (1:24): MP3
The Red Lily (1:14): MP3
The Sun (1:34): MP3
A Sort of a Song (0:43): MP3
May 1st Tomorrow (1:27): MP3
A Unison (2:41): MP3
Commentary (1:54): MP3
The Descent (2:33): MP3
To Daphne and Virginia (5:25): MP3
The Orchestra (3:39): MP3
The Yellow Flower (2:51): MP3
The Host (3:34): MP3
The Mental Hospital Garden (4:50): MP3
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower I (excerpt): 'I speak in figures' to end of book I (3:56): MP3
The Ivy Crown (3:16): MP3
Shadows (3:06): MP3
Asphodel, That Greeny Flower: Coda (excerpt): 'Inseparable from the fire' to 'which John Donne',"where the recording breaks off (4:23): MP3

Complete recording (59:03): MP3

"Flowers by the Sea" is also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Interview on "A Tribute to Ezra Pound," broadcast by WYBC, Yale University Radio. December 5, 1955

Complete recording (1:04:24): MP3

Reading and Commentary at the University of Puerto Rico. April 1956

Reads "Asphodel I," complete recording (14:07): MP3

Interview with John Wingate on Nightbeat, WABD television. September 4, 1957

introduction (0:44): MP3
on practicing medicine and writing poetry (1:59): MP3
on the Greenwich Village poets and separating from the crowd (4:15): MP3
on Ezra Pound (5:26): MP3
on Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost (3:43): MP3
on his links to alleged communist causes and letting people speak (2:51): MP3
on television (0:33): MP3
on Madison Avenue (0:37): MP3
on Adlai Stevenson, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy (1:23): MP3
on the place of religion in his life (1:15): MP3
on what he would like to be remembered for (0:33): MP3
closing remarks from John Wingate (0:36): MP3

Complete recording (24:03): MP3

Interviews with Walter Sutton. Recorded October 11 & 20, November 3 & 15, 1960

Complete recording (1:59:38): MP3

Interviews with Stanley Koehler. March 29 & 30, 1962

The Descent (excerpt) (0:22): MP3
The Orchestra (excerpt) (0:06): MP3

Complete recording (31:52): MP3

Robert Creeley reading a selection of poems by William Carlos Williams, Walking the Dog Lecture Series at SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program, October 15, 1990

reads William Carlos Williams's "The Dance" (1:07): MP3
reads WCW's "Burning the Christmas Greens" (5:38): MP3
reads WCW's "History of Love" (0:30): MP3
reads WCW's "When Structure Fails Rhyme Attempts to Come to the Rescue" (2:05): MP3
reads WCW's "The Birth of Venus" (3:04): MP3
reads WCW's "The Sound of Waves" (filne name is incorrect) (1:32): MP3
reads WCW's "The Dish of Fruit" (0:19): MP3
reads WCW's "The Act" (1:26): MP3
reads WCW's "Lear" (1:33): MP3

Singles

"This Is Just to Say"

Read in Rutherford, NJ, June 1950 MP3 (1:18)
Read in Rutherford, NJ, August 1950 MP3 (0:17)
Read in Van Nuys, Calif., November 16, 1950 MP3 (0:23)
Read at Harvard University, December 4, 1951 MP3 (1:14)
Read at Princeton University, March 19, 1952 MP3 (0:41), text (via poets.org)

[see text-audio alignments of all five singles]

"Between Walls"

Read at UCLA, November 15, 1950 MP3 (0:12)
Read at the 92nd Street YM-YWHA Poetry Center, New York MP3 (0:22)
Read at Williams' home in Rutherford, NJ MP3 (0:18) text

Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 1.

"To Elsie"

Read January 9, 1942 (1:45): MP3
Read at the Library of Congress, May 5, 1945 (1:50): MP3
Read at UCLA, November 15, 1950 (2:14): MP3
Read at Van Nuys, Calif. November 16, 1950 (2:20): MP3
Read at Princeton University, March 19, 1952 (2:16): MP3
Read at Hanover College, Indiana, May 16, 1952 (2:56): MP3
Read in Rutherford, NJ, June 6, 1954 (2:30): MP3
Read at UCLA, May 1955 (2:25): MP3

"The Red Wheelbarrow"

Read January 9, 1942 (0:11): MP3
Read for the Library of Congress, May 5, 1945 (0:15): MP3
Read on an interview for the Mary Margaret McBride Show, December 4, 1950 (0:08): MP3
Read at Princeton University, March 19, 1952 (1:42): MP3

[see text-audio alignments of all four singles]

Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

"Flowers By the Sea"

Read for the Library of Congress, May 5, 1945 (0:32): MP3
Read in Van Nuys, San Fernando Valley, California, November 16, 1950 MP3
Read at Harvard University, December 4, 1951 (0:51): MP3
Read at Princeton University, March 18, 1952 (0:53): MP3
Read at Hanover College, Hanover, Indiana, May 16, 1952 (1:00): MP3
Read at his home in Rutherford, New Jersey, June 6, 1954 (0:30): MP3
Read at UCLA, May, 1955 (0:32): MP3
Read in Van Nuys, San Fernando Valley, California, May, 1955 (0:43): MP3

Also featured on PoemTalk Episode 30.

Oral History

David Ignatow interviews Flossie Williams, Rutherford, NJ, 1974
(30:26): MP3

Optic Nerve Videos, various dates

No Ideas But In Things (4:48) Link
I Saw The Figure 5 in Gold (4:50) Link