A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Conversation Piece Why so much casual talk in Yeats' brilliant poem "Adam's Curse"?
  Robert Pinsky Nov. 3, 2009
  
• "Thoreau's Beans" 
  David Roderick Oct. 27, 2009
  
• "The Horses" 
  Rachel Richardson Oct. 20, 2009
  
• "Goose Flesh" 
  Tim Liardet Oct. 13, 2009
  
• In Nomine Patris et Felis Christopher Smart's extremely spiritual poem about his cat.
  Robert Pinsky Oct. 6, 2009
  
• "Elegy for Miss Calico" 
  Frank Gallimore Sept. 29, 2009
  
• "Dissolving" 
  Barry Goldensohn Sept. 22, 2009
  
• "Their Old Knives" 
  W.S. Di Piero Sept. 15, 2009
  
• The Slate Poetry Podcast Your favorite poets read their work to you.
  Sept. 15, 2009
  
• "Invitation" 
  Jane Hirshfield Sept. 8, 2009
  
• Golden Grammar The unexpected pleasures of George Herbert's sentences.
  Robert Pinsky Sept. 1, 2009
  
• "Santiago, Pluperfect" 
  Lance Larsen Aug. 25, 2009
  
• "To Read" 
  Michael McFee Aug. 18, 2009
  
• "At the Dance" 
  Louise Glück Aug. 11, 2009
  
• Same-Old, Same-Old Alexander Pope's "Epistle" and the art of making poetry from normal, banal, petty life.
  Robert Pinsky Aug. 4, 2009
  
• "Playboy's Guide to Lingering" 
  Joseph J. Capista July 28, 2009
  
• "The Most Careless Girl in the Class Had the Most Exquisite Body" 
  Erica Ehrenberg July 21, 2009
  
• "Biopsy" 
  Sophie Cabot Black July 14, 2009
  
• "The Symbol" 
  Billy Collins July 7, 2009
  
• Marianne Moore's "Poetry" Why did she keep revising it?
  Robert Pinsky June 30, 2009
  
• "The Fate of Pleasure"* 
  Peg Boyers June 23, 2009
  
• "Last Words" 
  Jane Shore June 16, 2009
  
• "In the Cafe" 
  Louise Glück June 9, 2009
  
• "Ocean" 
  Jason Shinder June 2, 2009
  
• Two Riddles These poems have right answers. Does that diminish them?
  Robert Pinsky May 26, 2009
  
• "Last Days" in memory of Gabriele Helms, 1967-2004
  Elise Partridge May 19, 2009
  
• "Self-Made" 
  Jeffrey Skinner May 12, 2009
  
• The Slate Poetry Podcast Your favorite poets read their work to you.
  May 12, 2009
  
• "Men's League Softball, Gillette, Wyoming" 
  Lucas Howell May 5, 2009
  
• "Eurydice: 1887" the flax spinners of Laren, spinning in the old tradition, as painted by Max Liebermann
  Avery Slater April 28, 2009
  
• The Calm and the Restless The plainness of Edward Thomas' "The Owl" vs. the struggle of Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Carrion Comfort."
  Robert Pinsky April 21, 2009
  
• "After the Service, the Widow Considers the Etymology of the Word Salary" 
  J. Allyn Rosser April 14, 2009
  
• "Bombs Rock Cairo" 
  Christian Wiman April 7, 2009
  
• "Poem for Hannah" 
  Matthew Zapruder March 31, 2009
  
• "The Age" 
  Gail Mazur March 24, 2009
  
• "All My Senses, Like Beacon's Flame" Fulke Greville's eloquent path to confused arousal.
  Robert Pinsky March 16, 2009
  
• "Bad Infinity" 
  T.R. Hummer March 10, 2009
  
• "Addicts" 
  Carol Muske-Dukes March 3, 2009
  
• "Slightly Tearful" 
  Mark Halliday Feb. 24, 2009
  
• "The Sound That Wakes Me at Night, Thinking of It" 
  Charles Harper Webb Feb. 17, 2009
  
• "It Takes Particular Clicks" 
  Christian Wiman Feb. 10, 2009
  
• "Paradise" 
  Emma Jones Feb. 3, 2009
  
• No. 443: "I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl" Why does Emily Dickinson extol "little duties" in the wake of a catastrophe?
  Robert Pinsky Jan. 27, 2009
  
• "Inauguration Day" 
  Frank Bidart Jan. 19, 2009
  
• From the Poems "Fray" Slate readers discuss poems with Robert Pinsky—and with one another.
  Jan. 13, 2009
  
• "Morning of the Monsoon" 
  Diane Mehta Jan. 13, 2009
  
• "The Unwritten History of Prose" 
  T.R. Hummer Jan. 6, 2009
  
• The Slate Poetry Podcast Your favorite poets read their work to you.
  Jan. 6, 2009