The Atlantic's Audible Anthology
From 1995 to 2007, The Atlantic's website published recordings of poets reading their own poems (An Audible Anthology) and classic poems by others (Soundings). These 415 recordings are preserved at the Internet Archive: An Audible Anthology , Soundings .
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An Audible Anthology
¶ Pamela Alexander
¶ Couple at the Club — Pamela Alexander (2001) text ¶ Dick Allen
¶ Memo From the Desk of Wallace Stevens — Dick Allen (1996) text ¶ The Report — Dick Allen (1996) text ¶ The Litany of Disparagement — Dick Allen (1998) text ¶ Private Grief — Dick Allen (2003) text ¶ Yehuda Amichai
¶ I Studied Love — Yehuda Amichai, read by Chana Bloch (1998) text ¶ After Auschwitz — Yehuda Amichai, read by Chana Bloch (1999) text ¶ Talvikki Ansel
¶ World — Talvikki Ansel (2001) text ¶ David Baker
¶ After Rain — David Baker (2000) text ¶ Christianne Balk
¶ Lauds for St. Germaine Cousin (1579-1601) — Christianne Balk (2002) text ¶ J. T. Barbarese
¶ Fossils — J. T. Barbarese (2000) text ¶ Teaching the Slider — J. T. Barbarese (2002) text ¶ David Barber
¶ The Lather — David Barber (1995) text ¶ Thumbnail Sketch of the Tulip Mania — David Barber (2000) text ¶ Tar Pit — David Barber (2003) text ¶ Pilgrim's Progress — David Barber (2003) text ¶ Linda Bierds
¶ For the Sake of Retrieval — Linda Bierds (1996) text ¶ The Weathervanes — Linda Bierds (1996) text ¶ Windows — Linda Bierds (1996) text ¶ Safe — Linda Bierds (1996) text ¶ Questions of Replication: The Brittle Star — Linda Bierds (2005) text ¶ Sophie Cabot Black
¶ The Tree — Sophie Cabot Black (2000) text ¶ Chana Bloch
¶ Tired Sex — Chana Bloch (1997) text ¶ Eavan Boland
¶ Limits — Eavan Boland (2001) text ¶ Cathy Smith Bowers
¶ A Little Herbal Primer: Chamomile — Cathy Smith Bowers (2000) text ¶ A Little Herbal Primer: Horehound — Cathy Smith Bowers (2000) text ¶ A Little Herbal Primer: Rosemary — Cathy Smith Bowers (2000) text ¶ A Little Herbal Primer: Sorrel — Cathy Smith Bowers (2000) text ¶ A Little Herbal Primer: Yarrow — Cathy Smith Bowers (2000) text ¶ Mystery of the Sphinx — Cathy Smith Bowers (2001) text ¶ For My Dog, Who Listens to All My Poems — Cathy Smith Bowers (2002) text ¶ Elizabeth Bradfield
¶ WYSSA — Elizabeth Bradfield (2005) text ¶ Debra Bruce
¶ Plunder — Debra Bruce (1998) text ¶ Childhood — Debra Bruce (2004) text ¶ Kathryn Stripling Byer
¶ Her Daughter — Kathryn Stripling Byer (2005) ¶ Teresa Cader
¶ Correspondence — Teresa Cader (1998) text ¶ The Odds — Teresa Cader (1998) text ¶ Aria — Teresa Cader (2003) text ¶ Robert Campbell
¶ Eads to Glinka — Robert Campbell (1996) text ¶ Nina Cassian
¶ Youthing — Nina Cassian (1997) text ¶ Paul Celan
¶ There Was Earth Inside Them — Paul Celan, read by John Felstiner (2000) text ¶ Kelly Cherry
¶ Field Notes — Kelly Cherry (1997) text ¶ Gethsemane — Kelly Cherry (1998) text ¶ Patricia Clark
¶ Riverside Ghazal — Patricia Clark (2002) text ¶ My Father on a Bicycle — Patricia Clark (2003) text ¶ Leonard Cochran
¶ Progress — Leonard Cochran (2004) text ¶ Henri Cole
¶ Horses — Henri Cole (1996) text ¶ Childlessness — Henri Cole (1997) text ¶ Black Camellia — Henri Cole (2002) text ¶ Landscape With Deer and Figure — Henri Cole (2003) text ¶ Dead Wren — Henri Cole (2004) text ¶ Birthday — Henri Cole (2005) text ¶ Michael Collier
¶ Bardo — Michael Collier (2002) text ¶ Billy Collins
¶ Invention — Billy Collins (1998) text ¶ Man Listening to Disc — Billy Collins (1999) text ¶ Snow Day — Billy Collins (2000) text ¶ The Iron Bridge — Billy Collins (2001) text ¶ House — Billy Collins (2004) text ¶ The Peasants' Revolt — Billy Collins (2005) ¶ Christopher Jane Corkery
¶ Central and Main — Christopher Jane Corkery (1996) text ¶ As in the Days of the Prophets — Christopher Jane Corkery (1996) text ¶ Jigsaw Puzzle in Pregnancy — Christopher Jane Corkery (1996) text ¶ Patio — Christopher Jane Corkery (1996) text ¶ Steven Cramer
¶ Villanelle After a Burial — Steven Cramer (1997) text ¶ The Accident — Steven Cramer (1998) text ¶ The Night We Knew For Sure — Steven Cramer (1999) text ¶ Everyone Who Left Us — Steven Cramer (2000) text ¶ Peter Davison
¶ "I Hardly Dream of Anyone Who Is Still Alive" — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ Gifts — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ The Obituary Writer — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ The Passing of Thistle — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ The Unfrocked Governess — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ The Winner — Peter Davison (1996) text ¶ Like No Other — Peter Davison (1997) text ¶ No Escape — Peter Davison (1997) text ¶ On Mount Timpanogos — Peter Davison (1997) text ¶ Falling Water — Peter Davison (1998) text ¶ These Days — Peter Davison (2000) text ¶ Best Friend — Peter Davison (2000) text ¶ You — Peter Davison (2000) text ¶ Greg Delanty
¶ The Bindi Mirror — Greg Delanty (2000) text ¶ Loosestrife — Greg Delanty (2005) text ¶ Darcie Dennigan
¶ Bullet — Darcie Dennigan (2007) text ¶ Susan Donnelly
¶ Harpo — Susan Donnelly (1999) text ¶ The Third-Prize Photograph — Susan Donnelly (1999) text ¶ Samba — Susan Donnelly (2000) text ¶ Geri Doran
¶ Retrospective — Geri Doran (2005) text ¶ Resin — Geri Doran (2005) text ¶ Mark Doty
¶ A Display of Mackerel — Mark Doty (1999) text ¶ Ben Downing
¶ Inshallah — Ben Downing (2000) text ¶ Andrew Frisardi
¶ Junior Soccer — Andrew Frisardi (1996) text ¶ Alice Fulton
¶ Fix — Alice Fulton (2000) text ¶ Erica Funkhouser
¶ The Accident — Erica Funkhouser (1995) text ¶ India Cotton Shirt — Erica Funkhouser (1996) text ¶ Owl Pellet — Erica Funkhouser (1996) text ¶ Woodcock — Erica Funkhouser (1999) text ¶ To the Animal in the Hole — Erica Funkhouser (1999) text ¶ Passage — Erica Funkhouser (2000) text ¶ First Pantoum of Summer — Erica Funkhouser (2003) text ¶ Journey — Erica Funkhouser (2003) text ¶ Juan Carlos Galeano
¶ Herons — Juan Carlos Galeano (2002) text ¶ Brendan Galvin
¶ Listening to the Garden — Brendan Galvin (1996) text ¶ An Explanation — Brendan Galvin (1997) text ¶ Pondycherry — Brendan Galvin (1997) text ¶ Seed Packet — Brendan Galvin (2005) text ¶ Martin Galvin
¶ Passive Aggressive — Martin Galvin (1998) text ¶ Reginald Gibbons
¶ Kiss — Reginald Gibbons (1997) text ¶ The Affect of Elms — Reginald Gibbons (1997) text ¶ Linda Gregerson
¶ Target, part 1 — Linda Gregerson (1996) text ¶ Target, part 2 — Linda Gregerson (1996) text ¶ Target, part 3 — Linda Gregerson (1996) text ¶ For the Taking — Linda Gregerson (1996) text ¶ Safe — Linda Gregerson (1996) text ¶ Waterborne — Linda Gregerson (2000) text ¶ The Horses Run Back to Their Stalls — Linda Gregerson (2002) text ¶ Susan Hahn
¶ Clean — Susan Hahn (2007) text ¶ John Haines
¶ Poem for the End of the Century — John Haines (1999) text ¶ Donald Hall
¶ The Wedding Couple (with introduction) — Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ When the Young Husband (with introduction) — Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ When the Young Husband — Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ Distressed Haiku — Donald Hall (2000) text ¶ The Wedding Couple (2000 recording) — Donald Hall (2000) text ¶ Peter Harris
¶ The Net — Peter Harris (1999) text ¶ Lola Haskins
¶ The Ballad of Foot-and-Mouth — Lola Haskins (2002) text ¶ Brooks Haxton
¶ Molybdenum — Brooks Haxton (1995) text ¶ Sanskrit by First Snowfall — Brooks Haxton (1997) text ¶ Adonis and Aphrodite — Sappho, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Charon — Zonas, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Echo — Satyrus, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Epitaph at Thermopylae — Simonides, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Herakleitos of Halikarnassos — Kallimachos, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Idea of Beauty — Meleagros, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Inner Voice — Philodemos, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Landscape With Young Man and Snares — Theokritos, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Last Sun in the Treetops — Ibykos, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Love Token — Plato, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ On the Emptiness of the Tomb — Leonidas of Tarentum, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Singer — Archilochos, read by Brooks Haxton (1998) text ¶ Samuel Hazo
¶ Seesaws — Samuel Hazo (2004) text ¶ Jane Hirshfield
¶ Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight — Jane Hirshfield (1996) text ¶ Lying — Jane Hirshfield (1996) text ¶ The Love of Aged Horses — Jane Hirshfield (1996) text ¶ The Song — Jane Hirshfield (1996) text ¶ Within This Tree — Jane Hirshfield (1996) text ¶ The Poet — Jane Hirshfield (1997) text ¶ Apple — Jane Hirshfield (1999) text ¶ The Bell Zygmunt — Jane Hirshfield (2004) text ¶ Patricia Hooper
¶ Prayer — Patricia Hooper (1997) text ¶ Jessica Hornik
¶ The Invisible Woman — Jessica Hornik (1998) text ¶ Gratitude — Jessica Hornik (1998) text ¶ The Closed Forest — Jessica Hornik (1999) text ¶ Andrew Hudgins
¶ Dragonfly — Andrew Hudgins (1997) text ¶ The Hawk Above the House — Andrew Hudgins (2000) text ¶ T. R. Hummer
¶ Junk Mail — T. R. Hummer (2003) text ¶ Mark Jarman
¶ Psalm — Mark Jarman (1997) text ¶ In the Tube — Mark Jarman (1999) text ¶ Coyotes — Mark Jarman (2003) text ¶ Bat — Mark Jarman (2005) text ¶ Strange Tales of the Kingdom of Fife — Mark Jarman (2006) text ¶ Rodney Jones
¶ TV — Rodney Jones (1995) text ¶ Beautiful Child — Rodney Jones (1996) text ¶ First Coca-Cola — Rodney Jones (1996) text ¶ On Pickiness — Rodney Jones (1996) text ¶ Plea for Forgiveness — Rodney Jones (1999) text ¶ Raccoon Time — Rodney Jones (1999) text ¶ Sovereign Joy — Rodney Jones (2005) text ¶ Andreas Karavis
¶ Morning — Andreas Karavis, read by David Solway (1999) text ¶ Mary Karr
¶ Beauty and the Shoe Sluts — Mary Karr (1998) text ¶ X. J. Kennedy
¶ A Beard of Bees — X. J. Kennedy (2002) text ¶ Jane Kenyon
¶ Drawing From the Past — Jane Kenyon, read by Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ Man Eating — Jane Kenyon, read by Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ Surprise — Jane Kenyon, read by Donald Hall (1996) text ¶ Woman, Why Are You Weeping? — Jane Kenyon, read by Donald Hall (1999) text ¶ Ted Kooser
¶ Biker — Ted Kooser (2001) text ¶ Marilyn Krysl
¶ Skipping the State — Marilyn Krysl (2002) text ¶ Maxine Kumin
¶ Grace — Maxine Kumin (1997) text ¶ Continuum: A Love Poem — Maxine Kumin (1998) text ¶ January 25th — Maxine Kumin (1998) text ¶ The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views — Maxine Kumin (1998) text ¶ Oblivion — Maxine Kumin (2000) text ¶ The Sunday Phone Call — Maxine Kumin (2002) text ¶ The Apparition — Maxine Kumin (2003) text ¶ The Cohort — Maxine Kumin (2005) text ¶ Perspective — Maxine Kumin (2007) text ¶ Stanley Kunitz
¶ King of the River — Stanley Kunitz (1996) text ¶ The Quarrel — Stanley Kunitz (1996) text ¶ The Round — Stanley Kunitz (1996) text ¶ Touch Me — Stanley Kunitz (1996) text ¶ Laurie Lamon
¶ When You Tell Me — Laurie Lamon (1998) text ¶ Potato — Laurie Lamon (1999) text ¶ Praise — Laurie Lamon (2004) text ¶ Sydney Lea
¶ Children, Singing — Sydney Lea (2003) text ¶ Philip Levine
¶ The New World — Philip Levine (1997) text ¶ The Return — Philip Levine (1998) text ¶ Ode for Mrs. William Settle — Philip Levine (1998) text ¶ Holy Day — Philip Levine (1998) text ¶ Magpiety — Philip Levine (1998) text ¶ "He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do" — Philip Levine (1999) text ¶ The Lesson — Philip Levine (2003) text ¶ Laurence Lieberman
¶ Love Nips of the Boa — Laurence Lieberman (1999) text ¶ Sarah Lindsay
¶ Laser Palmistry: The Early Days — Sarah Lindsay (2000) text ¶ Thomas Lux
¶ Gorgeous Surfaces — Thomas Lux (1996) text ¶ He Has Lived in Many Houses — Thomas Lux (1996) text ¶ Snake Lake — Thomas Lux (1996) text ¶ Torn Shades — Thomas Lux (1996) text ¶ Virgule — Thomas Lux (1996) text ¶ The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball — Thomas Lux (1998) text ¶ Henry Clay's Mouth — Thomas Lux (1999) text ¶ Lucky — Thomas Lux (2001) text ¶ The Diamond Cutter — Thomas Lux (2004) text ¶ Sebastian Matthews
¶ Walking With Walter — Sebastian Matthews (2000) text ¶ William Matthews
¶ The Shooting — William Matthews (1996) text ¶ Dire Cure — William Matthews (1997) text ¶ On the Porch at the Frost Place, Franconia, N.H. — William Matthews (1998) text ¶ Cheap Seats, the Cincinnati Gardens, Professional Basketball, 1959 — William Matthews (1998) text ¶ Homer's Seeing-Eye Dog — William Matthews (1998) text ¶ New — William Matthews (1998) text ¶ The Blues — William Matthews (1998) text ¶ Glyn Maxwell
¶ Poem in Blank Rhyme — Glyn Maxwell (2001) text ¶ Rumpelstiltskin — Glyn Maxwell (2001) text ¶ Time's Fool (An Excerpt) — Glyn Maxwell (2001) text ¶ Florence Cassen Mayers
¶ All-American Sestina — Florence Cassen Mayers (1996) text ¶ Gail Mazur
¶ Bluebonnets — Gail Mazur (1995) text ¶ Young Apple Tree, December — Gail Mazur (1999) text ¶ Gardner McFall
¶ Love Work — Gardner McFall (2003) text ¶ W. S. Merwin
¶ Another River — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ Echoing Light — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ End of a Day — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ Green Fields — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ Remembering — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ The Speed of Light — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ Vehicles — W. S. Merwin (1997) text ¶ Shore Birds — W. S. Merwin (1998) text ¶ Before the Flood — W. S. Merwin (1999) text ¶ Term — W. S. Merwin (1999) text ¶ Susan Mitchell
¶ Golden Bough: The Feather Palm — Susan Mitchell (1997) text ¶ Lost Parrot — Susan Mitchell (1999) text ¶ Jeff Mock
¶ The Plot Thickens — Jeff Mock (2002) text ¶ Jean Monahan
¶ Rough Beast — Jean Monahan (2001) text ¶ Robert Morgan
¶ Girdling — Robert Morgan (1997) text ¶ Option — Robert Morgan (1997) text ¶ The Grain of Sound — Robert Morgan (1999) text ¶ Wind From a Waterfall — Robert Morgan (1999) text ¶ Squirt Gun — Robert Morgan (2004) text ¶ Jonathan Musgrove
¶ Crayfish Hunting — Jonathan Musgrove (2002) text ¶ Her Last Night at Home — Jonathan Musgrove (2002) text ¶ Lunge With Martha — Jonathan Musgrove (2004) text ¶ Vladimir Nabokov
¶ Softest of Tongues — Vladimir Nabokov, read by Dmitri Nabokov (2000) text ¶ Leonard Nathan
¶ Denial — Leonard Nathan (2004) text ¶ Laura Newbern
¶ The Lovely Tall Novelist Danced — Laura Newbern (1997) text ¶ D. Nurkse
¶ The Reunification Center — D. Nurkse (2002) text ¶ Flying Seed — D. Nurkse (2005) text ¶ Sharon Olds
¶ A Week Later — Sharon Olds (2002) text ¶ Steve Orlen
¶ Blind Date — Steve Orlen (2003) text ¶ Greg Pape
¶ American Flamingo — Greg Pape (2000) text ¶ Fog — Greg Pape (2000) text ¶ Linda Pastan
¶ Deer — Linda Pastan (1996) text ¶ Crocuses — Linda Pastan (1996) text ¶ Green Thumb — Linda Pastan (1996) text ¶ Prosody 101 — Linda Pastan (1996) text ¶ Rivermist: For Roland Flint — Linda Pastan (2002) text ¶ Debra Pennington
¶ Postscript — Debra Pennington (1996) text ¶ Joyce Peseroff
¶ Asiatic Lilies — Joyce Peseroff (2005) ¶ Robert Pinsky
¶ Inferno, Canto I (in Italian) — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Inferno, Canto I, part 1 — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Inferno, Canto I, part 2 — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Inferno, Canto II (excerpt) — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Inferno, Canto V, part 1 — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Inferno, Canto V, part 2 — Dante Alighieri, read by Robert Pinsky (1996) text ¶ Biography — Robert Pinsky (2000) text ¶ Jersey Rain — Robert Pinsky (2000) text ¶ Vessel — Robert Pinsky (2000) text ¶ Jar of Pens — Robert Pinsky (2002) text ¶ Stanley Plumly
¶ Will Work for Food — Stanley Plumly text ¶ The Marriage in the Trees — Stanley Plumly (1996) text ¶ Naps — Stanley Plumly (1998) text ¶ Piano — Stanley Plumly (1999) text ¶ In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel — Stanley Plumly (1999) text ¶ Strays — Stanley Plumly (2000) text ¶ Mercy — Stanley Plumly (2002) text ¶ Silent Heart Attack — Stanley Plumly (2003) text ¶ Christina Pugh
¶ Mourning Cloak — Christina Pugh (2003) text ¶ Anna Rabinowitz
¶ Brooklyn Snapshot — Anna Rabinowitz (1998) text ¶ James Reiss
¶ Cycle — James Reiss (1996) text ¶ My Daughters in New York — James Reiss (1997) text ¶ Squeezebox — James Reiss (2006) text ¶ William Pitt Root
¶ Wherever — William Pitt Root (2001) text ¶ J. Allyn Rosser
¶ Municipal Playground — J. Allyn Rosser (2003) text ¶ Bus to San Miniato al Monte — J. Allyn Rosser (2005) text ¶ David J. Rothman
¶ Not My Leg — David J. Rothman (1997) text ¶ Kay Ryan
¶ Among English Verbs — Kay Ryan (1998) text ¶ Emptiness — Kay Ryan (1998) text ¶ This Life — Kay Ryan (1998) text ¶ Hailstorm — Kay Ryan (2003) text ¶ Stephen Sandy
¶ Earth Day Story — Stephen Sandy (1996) text ¶ My Place — Stephen Sandy (1996) text ¶ Worn Tool — Stephen Sandy (2001) text ¶ Grace Schulman
¶ Cimicifuga — Grace Schulman (2007) text ¶ Lloyd Schwartz
¶ Small Airport in Brazil — Lloyd Schwartz (1999) text ¶ William Shakespeare
¶ It Was a Lover and His Lass — William Shakespeare, read by John Skoyles (2006) text ¶ Joan I. Siegel
¶ Mary Cassatt: The Letter (1890-1891) — Joan I. Siegel (2002) text ¶ Louis Simpson
¶ Ishi — Louis Simpson (2005) text ¶ L. E. Sissman
¶ Love-Making; April; Middle Age — L. E. Sissman, read by Peter Davison (1999) text ¶ The Museum of Comparative Zoology — L. E. Sissman, read by Peter Davison (1999) text ¶ The Tree Warden — L. E. Sissman, read by Peter Davison (1999) text ¶ Tras Os Montes — L. E. Sissman, read by Peter Davison (1999) text ¶ John Skoyles
¶ History — John Skoyles (1997) text ¶ Lottery — John Skoyles (2006) text ¶ R. T. Smith
¶ Sourwood — R. T. Smith (1998) text ¶ W. D. Snodgrass
¶ Fast Foods: A Rap Rondeau — W. D. Snodgrass (2003) text ¶ David Sofield
¶ Midday Mirage — David Sofield (2005) text ¶ David Solway
¶ My Daughter at Chess — David Solway (1997) text ¶ My Mother's Chess — David Solway (1997) text ¶ Bamboo — David Solway (2004) text ¶ John Spaulding
¶ The Launching Chains of The Great Eastern — John Spaulding (2002) text ¶ Elizabeth Spires
¶ The Wave-Maker — Elizabeth Spires (2007) text ¶ Sue Standing
¶ Hummingbird — Sue Standing (2002) text ¶ John Struloeff
¶ Loggers — John Struloeff (2004) text ¶ Terese Svoboda
¶ Aubade — Terese Svoboda (1998) text ¶ Belles Lettres — Terese Svoboda (2001) text ¶ Henry Taylor
¶ A Crosstown Breeze — Henry Taylor (2004) text ¶ A Set of Hoofprints — Henry Taylor (2004) text ¶ After High Water — Henry Taylor (2004) text ¶ Robert Thomas
¶ The Blizzard — Robert Thomas (2002) text ¶ John Updike
¶ Rainbow — John Updike (2000) text ¶ Lee Upton
¶ Sure — Lee Upton (2003) text ¶ Virgil
¶ A Place for the Bees — Virgil, read by David Ferry (2005) text ¶ A Place for the Bees (Latin) — Virgil, read by David Ferry (2005) text ¶ Ellen Bryant Voigt
¶ Dooryard Flower — Ellen Bryant Voigt (1999) text ¶ Song and Story — Ellen Bryant Voigt (1999) text ¶ Lesson — Ellen Bryant Voigt (2001) text ¶ The Others — Ellen Bryant Voigt (2001) text ¶ Practice — Ellen Bryant Voigt (2002) text ¶ Prayer — Ellen Bryant Voigt (2005)¶ Tattered Dress — Ellen Bryant Voigt (2005) ¶ Connie Wanek
¶ The Coin Behind Your Ear — Connie Wanek (2001) text ¶ Lipstick — Connie Wanek (2004) text ¶ Thom Ward
¶ Vasectomy — Thom Ward (1996) text ¶ Rosanna Warren
¶ August Walk — Rosanna Warren (2002) text ¶ Jillian Weise
¶ Portrait of the Author After X-Ray — Jillian Weise (2003) text ¶ Richard Wilbur
¶ Bone Key — Richard Wilbur (1995) text ¶ The Disappearing Alphabet — Richard Wilbur (1997) text ¶ She — Richard Wilbur (1998) text ¶ C Minor — Richard Wilbur (1998) text ¶ Sir David Brewster's Toy — Richard Wilbur (2002) text ¶ Some Words Inside of Words — Richard Wilbur (2004) text ¶ C. K. Williams
¶ Dissections — C. K. Williams (2002) text ¶ Christian Wiman
¶ Postolka — Christian Wiman (2001) text ¶ Robert Wrigley
¶ Highway 12, Just East of Paradise, Idaho — Robert Wrigley (2001) text ¶ Winter Bale — Robert Wrigley (2001) text ¶ Discretion — Robert Wrigley (2003) text ¶ W. B. Yeats
¶ The Pilgrim — W. B. Yeats, read by Greg Delanty (2006) text ¶ David Yezzi
¶ Acceptance Speech — David Yezzi (2007) text Soundings
¶ Easter 1916 — W. B. Yeats, read by Peter Davison (1998) text ¶ Easter 1916 — W. B. Yeats, read by Philip Levine (1998) text ¶ Easter 1916 — W. B. Yeats, read by Richard Wilbur (1998) text ¶ As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life — Walt Whitman, read by Frank Bidart (1998) text ¶ As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life — Walt Whitman, read by Marie Howe (1998) text ¶ As I Ebb'd with the Ocean of Life (1867 version, "Elemental Drifts") — Walt Whitman, read by Galway Kinnell (1998) text ¶ My Picture Left in Scotland — Ben Jonson, read by David Ferry (1998) text ¶ My Picture Left in Scotland — Ben Jonson, read by Gail Mazur (1998) text ¶ My Picture Left in Scotland — Ben Jonson, read by Robert Pinsky (1998) text ¶ During Wind and Rain — Thomas Hardy, read by Donald Hall (1999) text ¶ During Wind and Rain — Thomas Hardy, read by Philip Levine (1999) text ¶ During Wind and Rain — Thomas Hardy, read by Rosanna Warren (1999) text ¶ The Wood-Pile — Robert Frost, read by Peter Davison (1999) text ¶ The Wood-Pile — Robert Frost, read by Donald Hall (1999) text ¶ The Wood-Pile — Robert Frost, read by Maxine Kumin (1999) text ¶ "I cannot live with You" (#640) — Emily Dickinson, read by Lucie Brock-Broido (1999) text ¶ "I cannot live with You" (#640) — Emily Dickinson, read by Steven Cramer (1999) text ¶ "I cannot live with You" (#640) — Emily Dickinson, read by Mary Jo Salter (1999) text ¶ Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare, read by Mark Doty (1999) text ¶ Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare, read by Linda Gregerson (1999) text ¶ Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare, read by W. S. Merwin (1999) text ¶ Sonnet 116 — William Shakespeare, read by Lloyd Schwartz (1999) text ¶ I Am — John Clare, read by David Barber (1999) text ¶ I Am — John Clare, read by Carolyn Kizer (1999) text ¶ I Am — John Clare, read by Christopher Ricks (1999) text ¶ Sonnet — Elizabeth Bishop, read by Gail Mazur (2000) text ¶ Sonnet — Elizabeth Bishop, read by Robert Pinsky (2000) text ¶ Sonnet — Elizabeth Bishop, read by Lloyd Schwartz (2000) text ¶ Sonnet — Elizabeth Bishop, read by Mark Strand (2000) text ¶ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Steven Cramer (2000) text ¶ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Stanley Plumly (2000) text ¶ This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, read by Tom Sleigh (2000) text ¶ To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell, read by Linda Gregerson (2001) text ¶ To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell, read by J. D. McClatchy (2001) text ¶ To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell, read by Heather McHugh (2001) text ¶ For the Union Dead — Robert Lowell, read by Frank Bidart (2001) text ¶ For the Union Dead — Robert Lowell, read by Peter Davison (2001) text ¶ For the Union Dead — Robert Lowell, read by Robert Pinsky (2001) text ¶ Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son — Sir Walter Ralegh, read by Henri Cole (2002) text ¶ Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son — Sir Walter Ralegh, read by David Ferry (2002) text ¶ Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son — Sir Walter Ralegh, read by Linda Gregerson (2002) text ¶ The Owl and the Pussy-cat — Edward Lear, read by Gail Mazur (2002) text ¶ The Owl and the Pussy-cat — Edward Lear, read by Lloyd Schwartz (2002) text ¶ The Owl and the Pussy-cat — Edward Lear, read by Richard Wilbur (2002) text ¶ To Autumn — John Keats, read by Sven Birkerts (2002) text ¶ To Autumn — John Keats, read by Emily Hiestand (2002) text ¶ To Autumn — John Keats, read by Stanley Plumly (2002) text ¶ To Autumn — John Keats, read by C. K. Williams (2002) text ¶ The Combat — Edwin Muir, read by Peter Davison (2003) text ¶ The Combat — Edwin Muir, read by Maxine Kumin (2003) text ¶ The Combat — Edwin Muir, read by Brad Leithauser (2003) text ¶ Here Lies a Lady (version A) — John Crowe Ransom, read by Andrew Hudgins (2003) text ¶ Here Lies a Lady (version A) — John Crowe Ransom, read by Mark Jarman (2003) text ¶ Here Lies a Lady (version A) — John Crowe Ransom, read by Brad Leithauser (2003) text ¶ Here Lies a Lady (version B) — John Crowe Ransom, read by Brad Leithauser (2003) text ¶ London — William Blake, read by David Barber (2004) text ¶ London — William Blake, read by Philip Levine (2004) text ¶ London — William Blake, read by Alicia Ostriker (2004) text