which debuted in April, has begun making available a small but significant portion of the many early audio recordings from its collection. This stuff is rare, and incredibly valuable, and incredibly interesting. The plan is for new audio files to be added incrementally as recordings from the 1950s onward are prepared and uploaded to the web. And, beginning in Spring 2012, video recordings will be added from the Poetry Center's extensive collection of early original video, collecting works from 1973 forward.One of the audio recordings included in this first batch of files is that of Philip Levine. It is a six poem, nearly 14 minute recording dating from November 24, 1958. In it, one can hear the muscular Whitman-esque line which shaped Levine's verse, and what's a little surprising, a sly humor is also present--the audience laughs on more than one occasion.
from San Francisco Chronicle: The voice of the poet
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