A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• "This Is the Time for Which We Have Been Waiting" 
  Joyce Carol Oates Dec. 18, 2001
  
• Leverett Circle 
  Dan Chiasson Dec. 11, 2001
  
• Les Neiges d'Antan 
  Gerald Stern Dec. 4, 2001
  
• To Licinius 
  Robert Pinsky Nov. 27, 2001
  
• Pacific Airstream Reaches New England 
  Dolores Hayden Nov. 20, 2001
  
• Be Honest 
  Leslie Williams Nov. 13, 2001
  
• The Only Way  
  Patty Seyburn Nov. 6, 2001
  
• Living in Music  
  Philip Levine Oct. 30, 2001
  
• Photography 
  Alfred Corn Oct. 23, 2001
  
• Requiescat 
  Lorrie Goldensohn Oct. 17, 2001
  
• Catalogue 
  Joyce E. Peseroff Oct. 10, 2001
  
• How I Fell                  & How It Felt 
  Jennifer Clarvoe Oct. 3, 2001
  
• Stevedore 
  Stuart Dischell Sept. 26, 2001
  
• Four Poems 
  Robert Pinsky Sept. 21, 2001
  
• The Fostering 
  Sherod Santos Sept. 19, 2001
  
• God's Acrostic 
  Jacqueline Osherow Sept. 5, 2001
  
• Rocks 
  Lynne McMahon Aug. 29, 2001
  
• First Sight 
  W.S. Merwin Aug. 22, 2001
  
• Joostice 
  Philip Levine Aug. 15, 2001
  
• At Shining Rock 
  Steven Cramer Aug. 8, 2001
  
• Land and Sea 
  Suzanne Qualls Aug. 1, 2001
  
• August 31 Happy Anniversary 
  David Lehman July 25, 2001
  
• Poem That Begins With a Prayer by the 14th-Century Hebrew Author and Translator Qalonymos ben Qalonymos 
  Richard Chess July 18, 2001
  
• Two Poems 
  Elizabeth Arnold July 11, 2001
  
• The Black Virgin 
  W.S. Merwin July 4, 2001
  
• My Noiseless Entourage 
  Charles Simic June 27, 2001
  
• The West Wind 
  Philip Levine June 20, 2001
  
• February 10: The Business 
  David Lehman June 13, 2001
  
• Sentimental Standards 
  Lynne McMahon June 6, 2001
  
• Llandudno 
  Sherod Santos May 30, 2001
  
• Land's Cape 
  Terese Svoboda May 23, 2001
  
• Word Gets Around 
  Steven Cramer May 16, 2001
  
• Heights 
  W.S. Merwin May 9, 2001
  
• For You 
  Bruce Smith May 2, 2001
  
• Watching the History Channel in a Topeka Motel  
  Ben Lerner April 25, 2001
  
• Mother's Day Poetry 
  Sian Gibby April 24, 2001
  
• This Summer 
  Liam Rector April 18, 2001
  
• First Laws 
  Teresa Cader April 11, 2001
  
• Lilacs on My Birthday 
  Joyce E. Peseroff April 4, 2001
  
• Ghazal 
  Agha Shahid Ali March 28, 2001
  
• Prague 
  Stuart Dischell March 21, 2001
  
• Those Winter Sundays  
  Robert Hayden March 14, 2001
  
• Small Variations 
  Sherod Santos March 7, 2001
  
• Oysters 
  Rafael Campo Feb. 28, 2001
  
• The Traveler 
  Louise Glück Feb. 21, 2001
  
• The Natural, Brooklyn, 1950 
  Barry Goldensohn Feb. 14, 2001
  
• As Seen on Television 
  Andrew Hudgins Feb. 7, 2001
  
• For Gregory Corso 
  Robert Creeley Jan. 31, 2001
  
• Reunion 
  Louise Glück Jan. 24, 2001
  
• Paul's Tattoo 
  Mark Doty Jan. 17, 2001
  
• Photographs 
  James Longenbach Jan. 10, 2001
  
• Tichborne's Elegy 
  Chidiock Tichborne Jan. 3, 2001