A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• "In the Rose Garden" 
  Mark Jarman Dec. 27, 2005
  
• "Psalm, 1950 DA*" 
  Josh Kellar Dec. 20, 2005
  
• "Draft of a Letter" 
  James Longenbach Dec. 13, 2005
  
• "A Myth of Innocence" 
  Louise Glück Dec. 6, 2005
  
• "Love Poem" 
  Nadia Herman Colburn Nov. 29, 2005
  
• "Self-Portrait, Masturbating" —after Egon Schiele
  Steve Gehrke Nov. 22, 2005
  
• "Steelhead" 
  Dave Lucas Nov. 15, 2005
  
• "Gravity" 
  Brian R. Lutz Nov. 8, 2005
  
• "Last Meal" 
  Catherine Pierce Nov. 1, 2005
  
• "The Hole" 
  Tom Sleigh Oct. 25, 2005
  
• "To Opinion: An Assay" 
  Jane Hirshfield Oct. 25, 2005
  
• "In the Bulrushes" 
  Katha Pollitt Oct. 18, 2005
  
• "A drop in the bucket" 
  Don Share Oct. 11, 2005
  
• "The Elephant Poet" 
  Dan Chiasson Oct. 4, 2005
  
• "Human Love" 
  Doreen Gildroy Sept. 27, 2005
  
• "Boyfriend Blues at 55" 
  Sharon Olds Sept. 20, 2005
  
• "The Demise of Camembert" 
  Ron Slate Sept. 13, 2005
  
• "All That Died in the Cat-Punctured Mouse" 
  Dean Young Sept. 6, 2005
  
• "Very Rilke" 
  Lynn Emanuel Aug. 30, 2005
  
• "Echoes" 
  Louise Glück Aug. 23, 2005
  
• "First Body" 
  Mark Conway Aug. 16, 2005
  
• "Mother and Son" 
  Mark Strand Aug. 9, 2005
  
• "Complaint of the Muse: Take This Job and Shove It" 
  Robert Thomas Aug. 2, 2005
  
• "Seven Ways of Looking at Saint Teresa" 
  Steven Coughlin July 26, 2005
  
• "Then This, From the Lost Sister" 
  Meghan O'Rourke July 19, 2005
  
• "Fireflies" 
  Karl Kirchwey July 12, 2005
  
• "Kingdoms of Slow Days" 
  David Tucker July 5, 2005
  
• "Confessions of a Mask" 
  David Lehman June 28, 2005
  
• "Anger" 
  Aliki Barnstone June 21, 2005
  
• "Riding Westward" 
  Carl Phillips June 14, 2005
  
• "Vertigo" 
  Mark Conway June 7, 2005
  
• "Blues in Half-Tones, ¾ Time" 
  Rita Dove May 31, 2005
  
• "The Crossing" 
  Jonathan Fink May 24, 2005
  
• "Story" 
  Joanie Mackowski May 17, 2005
  
• "Impatience" 
  Rachel Hadas May 10, 2005
  
• "Water" 
  Paul Guest May 3, 2005
  
• "Few Shall Answer" 
  C. Dale Young April 26, 2005
  
• "We" 
  C.K. Williams April 19, 2005
  
• "Petrified Light" 
  Teresa Cader April 12, 2005
  
• "The Lace World" 
  Monica Ferrell April 5, 2005
  
• "Our Reds" 
  Philip Levine March 29, 2005
  
• "Shame" 
  Ron Slate March 22, 2005
  
• "Warm Canto" 
  Ron Slate March 15, 2005
  
• "The Riddle of the Shrink" 
  Nuar Alsadir March 8, 2005
  
• "True Confessions" 
  Angie Estes March 1, 2005
  
• "Draft" 
  James Hoch Feb. 22, 2005
  
• "Eggrolls" 
  Alan Shapiro Feb. 15, 2005
  
• "The Vise" 
  Mary Baine Campbell Feb. 8, 2005
  
• "Suspension Bridge" 
  Alan Shapiro Feb. 1, 2005
  
• "Possibility: An Assay" 
  Jane Hirshfield Jan. 25, 2005
  
• "Meditation on a Moth" 
  Meghan O'Rourke Jan. 18, 2005
  
• "The Island" 
  Philip Levine Jan. 11, 2005
  
• "The Seamstress" Dia de los Muertos
  Jim Powell Jan. 4, 2005