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Kennst du das Land

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 214

By Léonie Adams

Lullaby

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 215

By Léonie Adams

Many Mansions

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 216

By Léonie Adams

Thought's End

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 217

By Léonie Adams

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

Lychees

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 286

By Meena 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

Ode to Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 218

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

The Rights of Women

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 219

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Washing Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 84

By Anna Lætitia Barbauld

Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 267

By Catherine Barnett

Read by Nicole Sealey

Syllogisms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 220

By Charles Baudelaire

Fantasy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Gwendolyn Bennett

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 177

By Joshua Bennett

Read by Samuel Yakura

Owed to the Durag

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Joshua Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

Arles 2018 4322

By Liz Berry

One Art

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 275

By Elizabeth Bishop

Read by John Murillo

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