An audio tape from Poets in Person: A Series on American Poets and Their Art, featuring an interview with Kumin, was published by the Modern Poetry Association in 1991. The interview is titled "Maxine Kumin in Conversation with Alicia Ostriker," and the tape is widely distributed.

In 1979, the Academy of American Poets recorded and produced an audio tape of a Kumin reading. Titled simply "Maxine Kumin," the sixty-minute tape contains selections from her first book through The Retrieval System, as well as an introduction by poet Jane Shore.