A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Toad Skin 
  Barry Goldensohn Dec. 30, 2003
  
• The Oxen 
  Dec. 23, 2003
  
• Dinner With the Metrophobe 
  Aimee Nezhukumatathil Dec. 16, 2003
  
• Minnesota 
  David Thoreen Dec. 9, 2003
  
• Iowa 
  Rick Barot Dec. 2, 2003
  
• Mistake 
  Richard Costello Nov. 25, 2003
  
• Making Purple 
  Dan Chiasson Nov. 18, 2003
  
• Naming of Parts A weekly poem read by the author.
  Nov. 11, 2003
  
• Skins 
  Suji Kwock Kim Nov. 4, 2003
  
• Low Barometer 
  Oct. 28, 2003
  
• #11, From Living in the Past 
  Philip Schultz Oct. 21, 2003
  
• To Autumn 
  Oct. 14, 2003
  
• Epic Simile 
  Elizabeth Arnold Oct. 7, 2003
  
• Saloon Pantoum 
  Kathy Fagan Sept. 30, 2003
  
• Fugue for Eye and Vanishing Point 
  Suji Kwock Kim Sept. 23, 2003
  
• Reading Faust When Young for David Mamet
  Barry Goldensohn Sept. 16, 2003
  
• Window on the World 
  Alfred Corn Sept. 11, 2003
  
• Dire Wolf 
  Lucie Brock-Broido Sept. 2, 2003
  
• Not a Poem About Driving at Night 
  Erika Meitner Aug. 26, 2003
  
• My Mother's Old Kitchen 
  Joyce E. Peseroff Aug. 19, 2003
  
• Almost a Conjurer 
  Lucie Brock-Broido Aug. 12, 2003
  
• Insomniac 
  Benjamin Gantcher Aug. 5, 2003
  
• Quiet Night 
  Robert Wrigley July 29, 2003
  
• Augury 
  Ellen Wehle July 23, 2003
  
• Leaflet on Wooing 
  Lucie Brock-Broido July 15, 2003
  
• Luna 
  Patricia Traxler July 8, 2003
  
• Strange State, Wrong Highway, Cold Night 
  J. Allyn Rosser July 1, 2003
  
• Questions at One O'Clock 
  Wesley McNair June 24, 2003
  
• Work Week at the Prep School 
  Bruce Smith June 17, 2003
  
• "Every twelve years, give or take this moment" 
  Dionisio Martínez June 10, 2003
  
• Chamberland Road 
  Joyce E. Peseroff June 3, 2003
  
• Kite Poem 
  Joyce Carol Oates May 27, 2003
  
• Shelley's Guitar 
  Michael Collier May 20, 2003
  
• Big Dog, Little Dog 
  Wyatt Prunty May 13, 2003
  
• Wheezie Via Long-Distance 
  Michael Ryan May 6, 2003
  
• That and This 
  Alan Shapiro April 29, 2003
  
• Poems of War Six writers and editors on poems of war.
  Judith Shulevitz April 25, 2003
  
• Unforeseeables 
  Albert Goldbarth April 22, 2003
  
• After Frost at Midnight 
  Mary Kinzie April 15, 2003
  
• The Invisible Man Looks Into a Mirror 
  Paul Guest April 8, 2003
  
• The Lift 
  Michael Collier April 1, 2003
  
• Other People 
  Peter Campion March 25, 2003
  
• Two Poems 
  Michalle Gould March 18, 2003
  
• As Close as Breathing 
  Mark Jarman March 11, 2003
  
• Trampoline 
  Joshua Weiner March 4, 2003
  
• February 26 Bar Association 
  David Lehman Feb. 25, 2003
  
• Hate Hotel 
  Tony Hoagland Feb. 18, 2003
  
• Zeno at Zero 
  Mary Kinzie Feb. 11, 2003
  
• Love Poem 
  Connie Voisine Feb. 4, 2003
  
• On Deciding To Fire My Chiropractor 
  Lynne McMahon Jan. 28, 2003
  
• Iris 
  Alan Shapiro Jan. 21, 2003
  
• The Pet 
  Cate Marvin Jan. 14, 2003
  
• Elegy for the Saint of Letting Small Fish Go 
  Eliot Khalil Wilson Jan. 7, 2003