A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• "Holiday Parties" 
  Victoria Chang Dec. 28, 2004
  
• "Turning Eighty: A Birthday Poem" 
  David Ferry Dec. 27, 2004
  
• "Turning Eighty: A Birthday Poem" 
  David Ferry Dec. 21, 2004
  
• "This Scene Before" 
  Albert Goldbarth Dec. 14, 2004
  
• "Gods in Exile" 
  James Longenbach Dec. 7, 2004
  
• "Unthought" 
  J. Allyn Rosser Nov. 30, 2004
  
• "Ta Ta Cha Cha" 
  Rita Dove Nov. 23, 2004
  
• "Holy" 
  Sophie Cabot Black Nov. 16, 2004
  
• "As If the Voices in the Background When My Mother Calls" 
  Wesley McNair Nov. 9, 2004
  
• "The Revolution" 
  Lynn Emanuel Nov. 2, 2004
  
• "Late Self-Portrait by Rembrandt" 
  Jane Hirshfield Oct. 26, 2004
  
• "September 26, 2001" 
  Martha Greenwald Oct. 19, 2004
  
• "Poem in the Manner of the 1990s" 
  David Lehman Oct. 12, 2004
  
• "My Mother in Shock" 
  David Baker Oct. 5, 2004
  
• "Macdougal Street Old-Law Flat" 
  Anne Winters Sept. 28, 2004
  
• "Tosca With Man in Bedrock" 
  Anne Winters Sept. 21, 2004
  
• "Romance" 
  Stanley Moss Sept. 14, 2004
  
• "Enormously Sad" 
  Gail Mazur Sept. 7, 2004
  
• "Envelope" 
  Dana Goodyear Aug. 31, 2004
  
• "The Long Marriage" 
  Jeffrey Skinner Aug. 23, 2004
  
• "Spellbound" 
  James Richardson Aug. 17, 2004
  
• "Vanishing Act" 
  Chris Forhan Aug. 10, 2004
  
• "Sling" 
  Chase Twichell Aug. 3, 2004
  
• "Cape" 
  Dana Goodyear July 27, 2004
  
• "Rhododendron" 
  Paul Breslin July 20, 2004
  
• "HMO" 
  Daniel Bosch July 13, 2004
  
• "Figurative North Topeka" 
  Eric McHenry July 6, 2004
  
• "Ruminant" 
  Dana Goodyear June 29, 2004
  
• "My Father Going Away" 
  Wesley McNair June 22, 2004
  
• "The Invention of Glass" 
  Sherod Santos June 15, 2004
  
• "Holding Hands" 
  Michael McFee June 8, 2004
  
• "Femme Fatale" 
  Averill Curdy June 1, 2004
  
• "The Nightbird We Could Never Name" 
  Eric Rawson May 25, 2004
  
• "Aubade" 
  Alan Michael Parker May 18, 2004
  
• "The Lost Glove" 
  Ada Limón May 11, 2004
  
• Mouth 
  Paul Breslin May 4, 2004
  
• "#883" by Emily Dickinson 
  Robert Pinsky April 27, 2004
  
• "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and "The Lake Isle" 
  Robert Pinsky April 20, 2004
  
• An Ode. To Himselfe 
  Robert Pinsky April 13, 2004
  
• Reading the Poetry of Meng Chao 
  Robert Pinsky April 6, 2004
  
• Poem to Fire 
  Peter Campion March 30, 2004
  
• The Bidding of the Harbor God 
  March 23, 2004
  
• After a Vermont Pond, 1977 
  Caroline Finkelstein March 16, 2004
  
• From the Bottom of the Stairs 
  Joshua Edwards March 9, 2004
  
• A Riff for Sidney Bechet 
  Stanley Moss March 2, 2004
  
• Song 
  Frank Bidart Feb. 24, 2004
  
• 1652 
  Sally Ball Feb. 17, 2004
  
• Snow 
  Debra Nystrom Feb. 10, 2004
  
• Book of the Dead 
  Garrett Doherty Feb. 3, 2004
  
• The Bear 
  Dan Chiasson Jan. 27, 2004
  
• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia 
  Aimee Nezhukumatathil Jan. 20, 2004
  
• March Elegy 
  Elizabeth Arnold Jan. 13, 2004
  
• The Bond 
  Rachel Hadas Jan. 6, 2004