All Episodes

The graduate leaving college

Three poems (Czesław Miłosz, Robert Pinsky)

To friends behind a border

The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

Bottled water by Kim Dower

Childhood's retreat and Often I am permitted to return to a meadow by Robert Duncan

poems from the wild iris by louise gluck

Father's old blue cardigan by Anne Carson

"Moon" by Kathleen Jamie

"Elegy for a mother still living" by Elana Bell

[love is more thicker than forget] by ee cummings

"Meet me at the lighthouse" by Dana Gioia

One hundred love sonnets: xvii by Pablo Neruda

The day of our divorce hearing by Ruth Lepson

Lying in a hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

from twenty love poems by pablo neruda

At last the secret is out by W. h. auden

Lunar new year （元日） by Wangan Shi （王安石）

Poem about morning by William Meredith

Family reunion by Maxine Kumin

The unknown citizen by W. H. Auden

The passionate shepherd to his lover (Christopher Marlowe) and the nymph's reply (Sir Walter Ralegh)

Dream deferred (Harlem) and The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

The order in which things are broken by Desirée Alvarez

Sleep in a new city by Mark Wunderlich

Sleep by Jorge Luis Borges

[Sleeping sister of a farther sky] by Karen Volkman

Antique by Robert Pinsky

War is kind by Stephen King

Morning song by Sylvia Plath

Love poem by Guan Daosheng

Ghost in the land of skeletons by Christopher Kennedy

Haunted houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Her lips are copper wire by Jean Toomer

Five poems by Tomas Transtromer

Collected poems by Sara Teasdale

October by Louise Gluck

Recuerdo by Edna St Vincent Millay

Now by Denis Johnson

The Contract Says: We'd Like the Conversation to be Bilingual by Ada Limón

Grief by Matthew Dickman

In this galaxy by Diane Wakoski

The emperor of ice cream by Wallace Stevens

A New National Anthem by Ada Limón

Quatrains by Rumi

The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter by Ezra Pound

Arabic by Agha Shahid Ali

Facts about the moon by Dorianne Laux

Sheeps by Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa)

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) by Frank O'Hara

Chinese Villanelle by John Yau

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

A Jew in New York by Bob Holman

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

we go at it like insane by Akhil Katyal

Vitamins by James Doyle

My Mother's Body by Marie Howe

Monday by Alex Dimitrov