A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Yoga 
  Robin Becker Dec. 19, 1996
  
• The Naked Eye 
  Alan Shapiro Dec. 12, 1996
  
• Evening 
  Gail Mazur Dec. 5, 1996
  
• A Painting of Pan ("He who feeds")
  Edward Hirsch Nov. 27, 1996
  
• Offertory 
  Patricia Traxler Nov. 20, 1996
  
• The Wedge 
  Gregory Orr Nov. 13, 1996
  
• One Penny 
  Jane Hirshfield Nov. 6, 1996
  
• Opus Posthumous 
  Charles Wright Oct. 30, 1996
  
• My Other Self for Greg and Trish Orr
  Michael Ryan Oct. 23, 1996
  
• The Ticket 
  Tom Sleigh Oct. 16, 1996
  
• One Brother Said to the Other, "Let's Go Into the Fields" 
  Philip Levine Oct. 9, 1996
  
• Low Tide 
  Gail Mazur Oct. 2, 1996
  
• By the River 
  Teresa Cader Sept. 25, 1996
  
• Somewhere Else 
  Mark Strand Sept. 18, 1996
  
• The Mysteries 
  Brenda Hillman Sept. 11, 1996
  
• A Poem Named "Basho in the Genju Hut" 
  Alfred Corn Aug. 28, 1996
  
• A Separate Logic 
  Gerald Stern Aug. 21, 1996
  
• Moorish Conversation, 1832 
  Richard Howard Aug. 14, 1996
  
• Voice 
  Heather McHugh July 31, 1996
  
• Two Frogs For Sayeed Jama
  Abdi Ali July 24, 1996
  
• Europa An ode by Horace
  David Ferry July 17, 1996
  
• A Great Noise 
  Carl Phillips July 10, 1996
  
• Fragment 
  C.K. Williams July 3, 1996