•  Frank Bidart, the Maker is a twenty-eight-minute documentary on the poet, produced by “Art Close UP,” a monthly TV series from WGBH in Boston. Filmmaker Jay Anania visits Bidart at his home in Cambridge and accompanies him to his classroom at Wellesley College. The 2004 documentary includes an interview, readings, and discussions of Bidart’s poems. People may contact WGBH for information on the availability of a copy.

•  In 1992, the Academy of American Poets produced a CD of Bidart and C. K. Williams reading selections of their poems. Bidart reads six short poems and his lengthy dramatic monologue, “Ellen West.” This is a two-disc set that runs eighty-eight minutes and is available online at poets.org from the academy’s Poetry Audio Archive.

•  As of 2007, a recording of Bidart reading a selection of...