There have been several recordings of Nemerov taped by the Library of Congress, including "Language, Nonsense and Poetry" (1989), "The Poet and the Poem" (1990), and "Professor Gifford Interviews Howard Nemerov" (1990).

Nemerov recorded a seventy-four-minute tape while reading at the New York Poetry Center in 1962. A two-cassette collection was also recorded in 1962 by Jeffrey Norton, simply titled "The Poetry of Howard Nemerov." These items most likely contain a good deal of material from The Salt Garden since the book was published only seven years earlier.