A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• "Aftermath" 
  Rosanna Warren Dec. 26, 2007
  
• "Below the Falls" 
  Kevin Barents Dec. 18, 2007
  
• "The World War Speaks" 
  Sandra Beasley Dec. 11, 2007
  
• "Luanne Again, Southeastern Ohio" 
  John Hazard Dec. 4, 2007
  
• "Twenty-First Century Exhibit" 
  Tomás Q. Morin Nov. 27, 2007
  
• "Definition of Stranger" 
  Idra Novey Nov. 20, 2007
  
• "Candidate" 
  Frank Bidart Nov. 13, 2007
  
• "Valentine" 
  Frank Bidart Nov. 13, 2007
  
• "A Wedding at Cana, Lebanon, 2007" 
  Tom Sleigh Nov. 6, 2007
  
• "On Desperate Days" 
  Barry Spacks Oct. 30, 2007
  
• "Breasts Like Martinis" 
  Jill McDonough Oct. 23, 2007
  
• "Failure" 
  Philip Schultz Oct. 16, 2007
  
• "Against the Grain" —for Joy Young
  David Gewanter Oct. 9, 2007
  
• "Elegy, Father's Day" 
  Kevin Young Oct. 2, 2007
  
• "Poem for My Daughter Disparaging the Gossamer Depictions of the Women of Certain Southern Texts" 
  Adrian Blevins Sept. 25, 2007
  
• "Act Now & Save" 
  Kevin Young Sept. 25, 2007
  
• "When I Think About the Time the Man Asked Me To Stop Fidgeting With My Pencil" 
  Christopher Cunningham Sept. 18, 2007
  
• "In Another Country" 
  Gail Mazur Sept. 11, 2007
  
• "Bad Annunciation" —ca. 1500, Jean de Flanes
  Joanie Mackowski Sept. 4, 2007
  
• "The Conquerors" 
  L.S. Asekoff Aug. 28, 2007
  
• "A Guide for Spiritual Tourists" 
  Hannah Faith Notess Aug. 21, 2007
  
• "Apple Economics" —for A.B.F.
  Edison Jennings Aug. 14, 2007
  
• "Adjectives of Order" 
  Alexandra Teague Aug. 7, 2007
  
• "War Work (Brooklyn, 1944-45)" 
  Barry Goldensohn July 31, 2007
  
• "Green Couch" 
  Edward Hirsch July 24, 2007
  
• "Bureau of Missing Persons" 
  James Reiss July 17, 2007
  
• "I Consider My Mother's Mind" 
  Lisa Russ Spaar July 10, 2007
  
• "I Have Been Given a Baseball ... " 
  Alan Michael Parker July 3, 2007
  
• "Lilacs" 
  Peter Campion June 26, 2007
  
• "The Box" 
  Tomás Q. Morin June 19, 2007
  
• "I've Been Working on the Railroad" 
  Jeffrey Skinner June 12, 2007
  
• "Driving Back From Crotched Mountain, Winter Storm, New Year's Eve" 
  John Hodgen June 5, 2007
  
• "Two Novembers" 
  Laura Van Prooyen May 29, 2007
  
• "The Ball of Earth and Heaven" at Shea Stadium
  Richard Marx Weinraub May 22, 2007
  
• "First Day of the Hunt" 
  Paula Bohince May 15, 2007
  
• "Old Woman With a Goiter" 
  Erica Levy McAlpine May 8, 2007
  
• "Gnostic Gospels" 
  Edward Hirsch May 1, 2007
  
• "In-Flight Couplets Composed During a Bomb Alert" London-St. Petersburg, Aug. 14, 2006
  Alfred Corn April 24, 2007
  
• "Civil Twilight" 
  Terri Witek April 17, 2007
  
• "A Volcano" (Bartolome de Las Casas, Inferno de Marsaya, 1536)
  Daniel Tobin April 10, 2007
  
• "Wild Mustard Remembers" La Carbonera, Lammas 1842
  Jim Powell April 3, 2007
  
• "Clearing the House" 
  Rebecca Kaiser Gibson March 27, 2007
  
• "Second Coming" 
  Ellen Wehle March 20, 2007
  
• Dulles Access Road 
  Stephen Burt March 13, 2007
  
• "The Gaijin in the Teachers' Room in December" Wakamatsu, Japan
  Freeman Rogers March 6, 2007
  
• "November Symphony " —after O V de L Milosz
  Steve Kronen Feb. 27, 2007
  
• "Otto Frisch Discovers Fission, 1938" 
  John Canaday Feb. 20, 2007
  
• "Lightning Strike in Paradise" 
  Andrew Hudgins Feb. 13, 2007
  
• "Major Third" 
  Jeffrey Bean Feb. 6, 2007
  
• "Tarot Card of the Dreaming Man, Face Down" 
  Mark Conway Jan. 30, 2007
  
• "Sitting in the Last of Sunset, Listening to Guests Within" 
  Eric Paul Shaffer Jan. 23, 2007
  
• "Death's Doorman" 
  Daniel Bosch Jan. 16, 2007
  
• "Lincoln Road" 
  Campbell McGrath Jan. 9, 2007
  
• "Self-Portrait as Alcibiades" 
  J.D. McClatchy Jan. 2, 2007