All Episodes

Simple by Raymond Carver

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman

On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare

Waiting by Raymond Carver

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

From the Long Sad Party by Mark Strand

Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder

The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

Prometheus by Lord Byron

February & my love is in another state by José Olivarez

How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

Soon by Joe Bolton

Aubade by Philip Larkin

Mantle by Kevin Young

4 A.M. By Kenneth Fearing

As One Listens to the Rain by Octavio Paz

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

What About This by Frank Stanford

3 Robinson Poems by Weldon Kees

The Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift

Ideas by David Lynch

Some Things Last by Ahmad Almallah

Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 by Cornelius Eady

Mingus at the Showplace by William Matthews

All That We Have by Stephen Dunn

Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye

New Year's Eve by D.H. Lawrence

Would You Wear My Eyes by Bob Kaufman

Long Nights by Jenny Xie

Souvenir by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Der Gilgul (The Possessed) by Jerome Rothenberg

Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

Now I Become Myself by May Sarton

Tattoo by Ted Kooser

Fire Dreams by Carl Sandburg

To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Craspey

Nothing by Connie Wanek

Reference Back by Philip Larkin

Beginning by James Wright

Before the Mirror by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

Somewhere to Place My Ashes by George Kendrick

The Vampire by Conrad Aiken

Ghost by Cynthia Huntington

There She Is by Linda Gregg

Lamia [Left to herself] by John Keats

Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon

I Have Folded My Sorrows by Bob Kaufman

Music Swims Back to Me by Anne Sexton

Theories of Influence by Anselm Berrigan

Sonnet 27 by William Shakespeare

After Fifty Years by William Faulkner

Good-bye by Walter de la Mare

Still Looking Out for Number One by Raymond Carver

The Juke-Box Spoke and The Juke-Box Said by Kenneth Fearing

Literary by Kenneth Fearing

Unreleased Movie by John Ashbery

Hour by Reginald Gibbons

Rendezvous by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock By T. S. Eliot

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

First Love by W.B. Yeats

To Autumn by Carl Phillips

Mirrors at 4 A.M. by Charles Simic

Ballad of the Moon Moon by Federico Garcia Lorca

Minor Song by Federico Garcia Lorca

From "Moon Songs" by Federico Garcia Lorca

The God Called Poetry by Robert Graves

Bones and Shadows by John Philip Johnson

Three Songs at the End of Summer By Jane Kenyon

Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost

The Lonely Street by William Carlos Williams

Eulogy to a Hell of a Dame by Charles Bukowski

The Golden Age by Bill Knott

The Lonedale Operator by John Ashbery

Ave Maria by Frank O'Hara

The Life With A Hole In It by Philip Larkin

Everything's a Fake by Fanny Howe

Repose of Rivers by Hart Crane

A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance by Stéphane Mallarmé

Two Poems by Arthur Rimbaud

Evening Harmony by Charles Baudelaire

Autumn Song by Charles Baudelaire

Innocents We by Paul Verlaine

In Muted Tone by Paul Verlaine

The Bridge by Victor Hugo

Tomorrow, when the meadows grow…by Victor Hugo

Summer Knowledge by Delmore Schwartz

The Starry Night by Anne Sexton

The Almanac of Time by Dylan Thomas

Lorca Variation 34 A Book of Hours by Jerome Rothenberg

The Case for Memory by Jerome Rothenberg

Enchanted Beach with Three Fluid Graces by Abdulkareem AbdulKareem

Nights When I Drove by Michael Ondaatje

White Nights by Paul Auster

[since feeling is first] by E.E. Cummings

The Paradiso, Canto Thirty Three by Dante Alighieri