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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 Record Label: The Poetry Center of Chicago
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Billy Collins: On Turning Ten 1:51 Album Only
Andrei Codrescu: Two Desert Monks Encounter The Christ of Happi 4:06 Album Only
Ron Padgett: Tom and Jerry Graduate from High School 3:03 Album Only
Lucile Clifton: Slave Ships 1:19 Album Only
Lucile Clifton: Q&A 1:36 Album Only
Mark Perlberg: The Revenant 2:28 Album Only
Li-Young Lee: Every Circle Wider 1:55 Album Only
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: History of the Airplane 3:22 Album Only
Anne Waldman: I remember 3:34 Album Only
Yusef Komunyakaa: Thanks 1:21 Album Only
Lisel Mueller: Alive Together 3:42 Album Only
Lisel Mueller: Q&A 2:15 Album Only
Anne Waldman: Global Positioning 3:15 Album Only
Ted Kooser: A Box of Pastels 2:41 Album Only
Ted Kooser: Q&A 1:09 Album Only
Billy Collins: Litany 1:51 Album Only
Lucile Clifton: What I think About When I Ride the Train 3:27 Album Only
Paul Carroll: Father 3:30 Album Only
Li-Young Lee: My Father in Heaven is Reading Out Loud 3:59 Album Only
Mark Perlberg: In the Theater of Memory 2:56 Album Only
Yusef Komunyakaa: My Father's Love Letters 1:25 Album Only
Jorie Graham: The Hiding Place 5:38 Album Only
Jorie Graham: Q&A 2:00 Album Only
Paul Hoover: The Prolific and the Devourer 2:14 Album Only
Ted kooser: A Deck of pornographic Playing Cards 2:00 Album Only
Andrei Cordescu: July 26th, 1999 1:35 Album Only
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Blinf Poet 3:14 Album Only
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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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