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Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 139

By Elizabeth Alexander

Butter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 196

By Elizabeth Alexander

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

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

Who’s Who

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 32

By W. H. Auden

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

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

The Tradition

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 170

By Jericho Brown

Black Girl Magic

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 140

By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 16

By Mahogany L. Browne

Untitled in Covid 19

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 53

By Mahogany L. Browne

Read by Mahogany L. Browne

Chingola Road Cemetery

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 25

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Paapa Essiedu

State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 44

By Maryann Corbett

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Countee Cullen

Cities

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 35

By H.D.

Hermes of the Ways

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 183

By H.D.

Sheltered Garden

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 124

By H.D.

The Shrine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 186

By H.D.

A Bird came down the Walk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

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By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 45

By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 55

By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Emily Dickinson

I dwell in Possibility—

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 99

By Emily Dickinson

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