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Floral Birth '98

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Meriem Ahmed

Read by Kayssie K

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 139

By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 196

By Elizabeth Alexander

I Want the Confidence of

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 134

By Raymond Antrobus

To Sweeten Bitter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By Raymond Antrobus

Two Guns in the Sky for Daniel Harris

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 49

By Raymond Antrobus

Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

Isolation: To Marguerite

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 128

By Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 162

By Matthew Arnold

To Marguerite: Continued

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 182

By Matthew Arnold

Little Prayer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 59

By Mona Arshi

The Bird

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 69

By Mona Arshi

The Illegitimate

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By ATMOS Collective

As I Walked Out One Evening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 115

By W. H. Auden

Read by Peter Halstead

from Academic Graffiti

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By W. H. Auden

Funeral Blues

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 02

By W. H. Auden

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 03

By W. H. Auden

Lullaby

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By W. H. Auden

O Tell Me the Truth About Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 85

By W. H. Auden

September 1, 1939

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 70

By W. H. Auden

Song of the Master and Boatswain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 16

By W. H. Auden

The Unknown Citizen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 11

By W. H. Auden

Read by Bobby Hirston

Who’s Who

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 32

By W. H. Auden

Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 31

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 84

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 177

By Joshua Bennett

Read by Samuel Yakura

Fantasy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Gwendolyn Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

Arles 2018 4322

By Liz Berry

Auguries of Innocence

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 100

By William Blake

The Sick Rose

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By William Blake

Imaginary Exile

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 79

By Richard Blanco

Contemplations

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 150

By Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By Anne Bradstreet

The Flesh and the Spirit

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 185

By Anne Bradstreet

Bullet Points

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 89

By Jericho Brown

Crossing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 99

By Jericho Brown

Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 109

By Jericho Brown

Stake

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By Jericho Brown

The Tradition

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 170

By Jericho Brown

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