A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• The Loop: JFK Jr 
  David Gewanter Dec. 28, 2000
  
• Grace 
  Louise Glück Dec. 20, 2000
  
• Red-Letter December 
  Rosemarie Ellis Dec. 13, 2000
  
• Repeats 
  Barry Goldensohn Dec. 6, 2000
  
• Things the Deaf Boy Does Next Door 
  Christine Bauch Nov. 29, 2000
  
• Love Song 
  William Carlos Williams Nov. 22, 2000
  
• The Last Secretary 
  Martha Greenwald Nov. 15, 2000
  
• Scan 
  Alan Shapiro Nov. 8, 2000
  
• Bliss 
  Lynne McMahon Nov. 1, 2000
  
• Humid 
  John Canaday Oct. 25, 2000
  
• Borrowing Milky-White for the St. Paul's Student Production of Into the Woods 
  Eric McHenry Oct. 18, 2000
  
• San Destin 
  Ed Skoog Oct. 4, 2000
  
• Casting 
  Karen Holmberg Sept. 27, 2000
  
• December 8 
  David Lehman Sept. 20, 2000
  
• Ardent 
  Jill McDonough Sept. 13, 2000
  
• Poem 
  Dan Chiasson Sept. 6, 2000
  
• Romeo & Juliet 
  Sherod Santos Aug. 31, 2000
  
• His Garden 
  Lynne McMahon Aug. 23, 2000
  
• Cicadas 
  Karen Holmberg Aug. 16, 2000
  
• Desert Island 
  Andrew Hudgins Aug. 9, 2000
  
• Snow-in-Summer (an ode) 
  Patricia Clark Aug. 2, 2000
  
• Seasonal 
  Maggie Dietz July 26, 2000
  
• Key West Valentine 
  Mark Doty July 19, 2000
  
• The Stranger 
  James Longenbach July 12, 2000
  
• Phone Call 
  Alan Shapiro July 6, 2000
  
• from Autobiography of My Alter Ego 
  Yusef Komunyakaa June 28, 2000
  
• The Value of Education 
  Mark Halliday June 21, 2000
  
• Siegfried's Destiny 
  Jim Powell June 14, 2000
  
• My Godzilla 
  James Richardson June 7, 2000
  
• Come to Harm 
  Andrew Hudgins May 31, 2000
  
• August 15 
  David Lehman May 24, 2000
  
• The Accident 
  Alan Shapiro May 18, 2000
  
• Untransformed 
  Mark Halliday May 10, 2000
  
• Air Map 
  Susan Wheeler May 3, 2000
  
• The Whispering Gallery 
  Yusef Komunyakaa April 26, 2000
  
• Piss Christ Andres Serrano, 1987
  Andrew Hudgins April 19, 2000
  
• For Bill Nestrick (1940-96) 
  Frank Bidart April 12, 2000
  
• Hinge 
  James Hoch April 5, 2000
  
• Segment on NPR 
  Mark Jarman March 29, 2000
  
• Lake Street 
  James Reiss March 22, 2000
  
• Habit 
  Jane Hirshfield March 15, 2000
  
• No Song I Know 
  Joyce Carol Oates March 8, 2000
  
• Tiepolo's Hound, Part III, 1 
  Derek Walcott March 1, 2000
  
• Himalaya 
  Ellen Bryant Voigt Feb. 24, 2000
  
• Chard Whitlow (Mr. Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)
  Feb. 16, 2000
  
• Spoils, Dividing 
  Carl Phillips Feb. 9, 2000
  
• The Dead 
  Stephen McLeod Feb. 2, 2000
  
• Horace, Epistle i.15 To Numonius Vala
  David Ferry Jan. 26, 2000
  
• All Evening, Each Time I Started To Say It 
  Jane Hirshfield Jan. 19, 2000
  
• CAELICA, #100 (In Night, When Colors All to Black) 
  Jan. 12, 2000
  
• Bonsai, Golden Lotus 
  Yusef Komunyakaa Jan. 5, 2000