A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Hypnosis Hypnosis
  Gail Mazur Dec. 25, 1997
  
• The Report The Report
  Stuart Dischell Dec. 18, 1997
  
• My Toshiba My Toshiba
  Chase Twichell Dec. 11, 1997
  
• A Tulip in Winter (for Janice Fitzpatrick)
  Sherod Santos Dec. 4, 1997
  
• The Turtle 
  William Carlos Williams Nov. 27, 1997
  
• A Working Girl Can't Win 
  Deborah Garrison Nov. 20, 1997
  
• Lavender Disaster 
  David St. John Nov. 13, 1997
  
• Days of Me 
  Stuart Dischell Nov. 6, 1997
  
• The Fedge 
  Mark Halliday Oct. 30, 1997
  
• Eros Turannos 
  Edwin Arlington Robinson Oct. 23, 1997
  
• Happily Married 
  Deborah Garrison Oct. 16, 1997
  
• Getting From Here to There 
  John Hollander Oct. 9, 1997
  
• Brave Sparrow 
  Michael Collier Oct. 2, 1997
  
• The Vine 
  Robert Herrick Sept. 25, 1997
  
• Roach Holder, c. 1967 
  Chase Twichell Sept. 18, 1997
  
• Cheer 
  Stanley Plumly Sept. 11, 1997
  
• To Earthward 
  Robert Frost Aug. 28, 1997
  
• In Memoriam 
  Carol Muske-Dukes Aug. 21, 1997
  
• The Vanishing The Vanishing
  Joe Osterhaus Aug. 14, 1997
  
• The Favored The Favored
  David Rivard Aug. 7, 1997
  
• The Pleasures of Merely Circulating The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
  Wallace Stevens July 31, 1997
  
• Jobsite Wind Jobsite Wind
  Mark Turpin July 17, 1997
  
• Frankfort Laundromat Frankfort Laundromat
  Mark Halliday July 10, 1997
  
• Waiting for the Barbarians Waiting for the Barbarians
  Constantine Cavafy June 26, 1997
  
• Benares Benares
  Carol Muske-Dukes June 19, 1997
  
• Where Was When Where Was When
  John Hollander June 12, 1997
  
• Double Portrait Double Portrait
  Joyce Carol Oates June 5, 1997
  
• My Picture Left in Scotland 
  Ben Jonson May 29, 1997
  
• Docudrama Docudrama
  David Rivard May 22, 1997
  
• Classics Classics
  Thom Gunn May 15, 1997
  
• Above the Red Deep-Water Clays Above the Red Deep-Water Clays
  James McMichael May 8, 1997
  
• Informing Dynamics Informing Dynamics
  A.R. Ammons May 1, 1997
  
• 1-A, 1968 1-A, 1968
  Bruce Smith April 24, 1997
  
• Knowing Nothing Knowing Nothing
  Jane Hirshfield April 17, 1997
  
• Quotations Quotations
  Charles Wright April 10, 1997
  
• That Evening at Dinner That Evening at Dinner
  David Ferry April 3, 1997
  
• In the Blue Room: 
  Steven Cramer March 27, 1997
  
• Two Poems 
  Lloyd Schwartz March 20, 1997
  
• The Dead Sea 
  Alfred Corn March 6, 1997
  
• Melancolia 
  Mary Kinzie Feb. 27, 1997
  
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  Richard Tillinghast Feb. 20, 1997
  
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  William Matthews Feb. 13, 1997
  
• Dream Pun on "Single Man" Before Marrying Again 
  Michael Ryan Feb. 6, 1997
  
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  Alan Williamson Jan. 30, 1997
  
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  Erin Belieu Jan. 23, 1997
  
• Two Days July 10
  David Lehman Jan. 16, 1997