All Episodes
Poetry For All — 117 episodes
Episode 114: Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Episode 113: Langston Hughes, Theme for English B
Episode 112: Walt Whitman, When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Episode 111: Katie Ford, The Shroud of Turin
Episode 110: Tarfia Faizullah, Aubade Ending with the Death of a Mosquito
Episode 109: Philip Larkin, Aubade
Episode 108: Joanne Diaz, The Face
Episode 107: John Donne, The Sun Rising
Episode 106: Jane Mead, I wonder if I will miss the moss
Episode 105: Phillis Wheatley Peters, "To the Earl of Dartmouth"
Episode 104: Jane Zwart, I read that the moon is rusting
Episode 103: Dinah Maria Craik, Friendship
Episode 102: Phillis Levin, An Anthology of Rain
Episode 101: Emerald GoingSnake, Someday I'll Love--
Episode 100: Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Episode 99: Oliver de la Paz, Pantoum Beginning and Ending with Thorns
Episode 98: Arthur Sze, Papyrus Pantoum
Episode 97: Donald Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression
Episode 96: Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur
Episode 95: Ted Kooser, Student
Episode 94: Sumer is icumen in
Episode 92: Dorianne Laux, Singer
Episode 91: Joanne Diaz, Two Emergencies
Episode 90: N. Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee
Episode 89: Pádraig Ó Tuama, excerpts from Kitchen Hymns
Episode 88: Oksana Maksymchuk, Tempo
Episode 87: Monica Ong, Her Gaze
Episode 86: Gwendolyn Bennett, I Build America
Episode 85: Jacob Stratman, To Momento Mori
Episode 84: Ted Kooser, excerpts from Winter Morning Walks
Episode 83: Emily Dickinson, "I went to thank Her–"
Episode 82: Sidney, Translation of Psalm 52
Episode 81: Niki Herd, The Stuff of Hollywood
Episode 80: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias
Episode 79: W.H. Auden, Musée des Beaux Arts
Episode 78: Jericho Brown, Duplex
Episode 77: Jennifer Grotz, The Conversion of Paul
Episode 76: Philip Levine, What Work Is
Episode 75: Du Fu, Passing the Night by White Sands Post Station
Episode 74: Diane Seuss, [The sonnet, like poverty]
Episode 73: Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz, Sonnet 189
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Episode 72: Victoria Chang, My Mother--died unpeacefully...
Episode 71: Hopkins, As Kingfishers Catch Fire
Episode 70: Lauren Camp, Inner Planets
Episode 69: Live with Marilyn Nelson!
Announcement
Episode 68: W.S. Merwin, To the New Year
Episode 67: Alex Dimitrov, Winter Solstice
Episode 66: Katy Didden, The Priest Questions the Lava
Episode 65: Du Fu, Facing Snow
Episode 64: Shakespeare, Sonnet 29
Episode 63: Rumi, Colorless, Nameless, Free
Episode 62: Kobayashi Issa, Haiku
Episode 61: Ada Limón, "The Raincoat"
Episode 60: Li-Young Lee, From Blossoms
Episode 59: Tichborne's Elegy
Episode 58: Richie Hofmann, Things That Are Rare
Episode 57: Edna St. Vincent Millay, She had forgotten how the August night
Episode 56: Queen Elizabeth, On Monsieur's Departure
Episode 55: Kay Ryan, Crib
Grant Writing Break
Episode 54: Carl Phillips, To Autumn
Episode 53: Carter Revard, What the Eagle Fan Says
Episode 52: Shakespeare, Sonnet 73
Episode 51: Martín Espada, Jumping Off the Mystic Tobin Bridge
Episode 50: Rafael Campo, Primary Care
Episode 49: Lisel Mueller, When I am Asked
Episode 48: Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise
Episode 47: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Episode 46: Lucille Clifton, spring song
From Talk Easy: Claudia Rankine’s Just Us: An American Conversation
Episode 45: Ben Jonson, On My First Son
Episode 44: Ann Hudson, Soap
Episode 43: Margaret Noodin, What the Peepers Say
Episode 42: Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass
Episode 41: F.E.W. Harper, Learning to Read
Episode 40: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116
Episode 39: Paul Laurence Dunbar, We Wear The Mask
Episode 38: Laura Van Prooyen, Elegy for My Mother's Mind
Episode 37: Why Poetry For All
Episode 36: Denise Levertov, On the Mystery of the Incarnation
Episode 35: Matthew Zapruder, Poem for Wisconsin
Episode 34: Tracy K. Smith, Declaration
Episode 33: Adrienne Rich, Power
Episode 32: Rick Barot, Cascades 501
Episode 31: Jane Kenyon, Twilight: After Haying
Episode 30: John Keats, To Autumn
Episode 29: Elizabeth Bishop, One Art
Episode 28: Countee Cullen, Yet Do I Marvel
Episode 27: Marianne Moore, Poetry
Episode 26: Brenda Cárdenas, "Our Lady of Sorrows"
Episode 25: William Carlos Williams, "This is Just to Say"
Episode 24: Robert Hayden, Those Winter Sundays
Episode 23: Langston Hughes, "Johannesburg Mines"
Episode 22: Two Poems of World War I
Episode 21: Christian Wiman, I Don't Want to Be a Spice Store
Episode 20: Hester Pulter, View But This Tulip
Episode 19: Naomi Shihab Nye, Gate A-4
Episode 18: Jenny Johnson, Dappled Things
Episode 17: Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
Episode 16: John Milton, When I Consider How My Light is Spent
Episode 15: Amanda Gorman, Chorus of the Captains
Episode 14: George Herbert, The Collar
Episode 13: Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb
Episode 12: James Merrill, Christmas Tree
Episode 11: Alberto Ríos, When Giving Is All We Have
Episode 10: Mary Jo Bang, The Head of a Dancer
Episode 9: Anne Bradstreet, In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet
Episode 8: Toi Derricotte, "The Minks"
Episode 7: John Donne, Holy Sonnet 14
Episode 6: Jen Bervin, Nets
Episode 5: Claude McKay, "America"
Episode 4: Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
Episode 3: Phillis Wheatley, On Being Brought from Africa to America
Episode 2: Emily Dickinson, Tell all the truth
Episode 1: Seamus Heaney, Digging