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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 278

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

Epitaph for Fire and Flower

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Sylvia Plath

Read by Jensen Gray

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

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

The Burdens

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By Stephen Sexton

from Richard III

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 150

By William Shakespeare

Read by Aaron Monaghan

The Sky

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Natalie Shapero

Read by Cecilia Knapp

From the Confinement

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 93

By Evgeny Shtorn

Drunktown

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 212

By Jake Skeets

king the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 262

By Danez Smith

Read by Ato Blankson-Wood

The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous – Chapter 1

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 125

By M. L. Smoker

When We Speak of Our Mothers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 258

By Degna Stone

My Friends

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Arundhati Subramaniam

Read by Degna Stone

Queens

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 188

By J. M. Synge

Read by Seán Hewitt

Over Wine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 194

By Wisława Szymborska

Read by Mark di Suvero

January 9th, 2008

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 268

By Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Identity.

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 88

By Sasha Terfous

Peach Season

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 262

By Dawn Watson

This Is Just to Say (the Gays Will Steal Your Fruit)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Dawn Watson

Saints, Sinners and Survivors

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By WeAreGriot

They Flee from Me

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 183

By Thomas Wyatt

Read by Martina Evans

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