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My Mother Quit Bread

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Cecilia Knapp

A letter to remind myself who I am

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 234

By Shane Koyczan

Read by Sky Hawkins

Still Life with Nursing Bra

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 244

By Keetje Kuipers

Cinderella

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Tia Laurent

Read by Cathy Halstead

From Blossoms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 293

By Li-Young Lee

Read by Rachel Bower

ode to edge control gel

By Theresa Lola

Skinology

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 36

By Adrian C. Louis

Read by Jake Skeets

Saddle

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 12

By Corbin Louis

Read by Dagogo Hart

Reggae Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 206

By Hannah Lowe

There is no Life or Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By Mina Loy

Read by Suzanne Wise

Ars Poetica

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Archibald MacLeish

Read by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 274

By Derek Mahon

Read by Brian Doherty

54

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 260

By Osip Mandelstam

Read by Kayo Chingonyi

Tell Your Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 273

By Lebo Mashile

Read by Sasha Terfous

A Gift

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 167

By Andrew McMillan

This is not a confessional poem

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Paula Meehan

Read by Clare Dunne

Ghazal for the Diaspora

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 268

By Faisal Mohyuddin

Read by Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Fabric Hands

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 247

By Ellen Moran

Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 87

By John Murillo

The Architectural Metaphor

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 278

By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Read by Venetia Bowe

Caitlín (Cathleen)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill

Read by Marie Mullen

He's Just Not That Into You

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 291

By Ciara Ní É

Run (it’s dark outside)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 208

By Ciara Ní É

Brightening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 145

By Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Half Written Love Letter

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 162

By Selina Nwulu

The Sharp-Breasted Snake

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 211

By Louis Little Coon Oliver

Read by Jennifer Elise Foerster

Blizzard

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 283

By Carl Phillips

Read by Bernard Ferguson

Corral

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 276

By Carl Phillips

Read by Brian Blanchfield

Epitaph for Fire and Flower

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Sylvia Plath

Read by Jensen Gray

Justice, Come Down

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 271

By Minnie Bruce Pratt

Read by Keetje Kuipers

It Would Sound Like a Dream

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 108

By Camille Rankine

A Pumpkin

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 283

By Padraig Regan

Frederick Douglass Aboard a Sonnet of the Atlantic

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Kimberly Reyes

Stain in Creases

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 284

By Kimberly Reyes

The City Kids See the Sea

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 259

By Roger Robinson

Monk Style

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 184

By Kay Ryan

Read by Pedja Muzijevic

Hydrogen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 238

By Sarah M. Sala

Shimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By James Schuyler

Read by Padraig Regan

Even the Gods

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Nicole Sealey

Segue

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 230

By Stephen Sexton

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