All Episodes

Hope by Lisel Mueller

Next Time by Joyce Sutphen

Small Basket of Happiness by Naomi Shihab Nye

The Poet with His Face in His Hands by Mary Oliver

Thank You by Ross Gay

Nobody Cares by William Stafford

To Myself by W. S. Merwin

The Lilies by Wendell Berry

Ode on Solitude by Alexander Pope

Certain People by Richard Jones

On An Anniversary by Donald Justice

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Refusal by Maya Angelou

Heavy by Mary Oliver

The Meeting by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly

Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove

Just Now by W. S. Merwin

A Dialogue of Watching by Kenneth Rexroth

Doing Without by David Ray

The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic

Words for Worry by Li-Young Lee

The Sandhill Cranes of Nebraska by Billy Collins

Vocational Training by Carrie Shipers

Album by Ron Padgett

The Meaning of Simplicity by Yannis Ritsos

Nights in Hackett’s Cove by Mark Strand

A Dream of Paradise in the Shadow of War by Muneer Niazi

The Question Mark by Gevorg Emin

At the Beach by Kemal Ozer

Magic by Dahlia Ravikovitch

Jasmine by Kyongjoo Hong Ryou

Regarding (Most) Songs by Thomas Lux

The Small Cabin by Margaret Atwood

The Sick-Room by R. A. Simpson

There are Times by Roberto Juarroz

Love by Tymoteusz Karpowicz

A Train is Passing by Poul Borum

Inside by Kim Chiha

Petrified Minute by Zoltan Zelk

Song by Cecilia Meireles

Picnic To The Earth by Shuntaro Tanikawa

Happy as a Dog’s Tail by Anna Swir

The Pen by Muhammad Al-Ghuzzi

Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood

Song of Being a Child by Peter Handke

After I Came Back From Iceland by Sheenagh Pugh

I Am In Need Of Music by Elizabeth Bishop

Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller

Saints by Louis Jenkins

Foreseeing by Sharon Bryan

To My Own Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

Song by Edwin Denby

The More Loving One by W.H.Auden

For my Daughter in Reply to a Question by David Ignatow

Knots by Joseph Stroud

Eyes by Czeslaw Milosz

That I did Always Love by Emily Dickinson

Bread and Butter by Gayle Brandeis

Sonnet 26: Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare

Suicides by Faith Shearin

Parting by Else Lasker-Schüler

Being Boring by Wendy Cope

I’m so Lost to the World by Friedrich Rückert

Sorrow by Shara McCallum

Lucky by Louise Jenkins

To Boredom by Charles Simic

The Smile by William Blake

Map by Wislawa Szymborska

It Was A Quiet Way by Emily Dickinson

When I Am Old by Moyra Donaldson

Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux

The Best Thing I Did by Ron Padgett

To Jane: The Keen Stars Were Twinkling by Percy Bysshe Shelley

What I Know by Lee Robinson

Things Shouldn’t Be So Hard by Kay Ryan

Nothing is Lost by Noel Coward

In Praise of My Bed by Meredith Holmes

Star by Giuseppe Ungaretti

An Argument by Thomas Moore

All That Time by May Swenson

Museum Guard by David Hernandez

This Was Once a Love Poem by Jane Hirshfield

Little Father by Li-Young Lee

Sonnet XVI by Pablo Neruda

Numbers by Mary Cornish

Living by Denise Levertov

Ode to Buttoning and Unbuttoning my Shirt by Ross Gay

My Number by Billy Collins

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Four in the Morning by Wislawa Szymborska

Finis by Walter Savage Landor

Love is a Magic Ray by Khalil Gibran

At Emily’s In Amherst by David Ray

The Lesson by Billy Collins

Grief by Stephen Dobyns

Old People on the Nursing Home Porch by Mark Strand

Everything by Mary Oliver

A Final Affection by Paul Zimmer

Poem by Frank O’Hara