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I Once Was the Smallest Flame in the Fire

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Gu Cheng

Read by Chengxi Fu

A Second Opinion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 87

By Peter Halstead

Common Sense

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 123

By Peter Halstead

Read by Mark di Suvero

Glassmaker

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 15

By Peter Halstead

Read by Eleanor Methven

On the Merits of Literature

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Peter Halstead

Piano Maker

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 30

By Peter Halstead

Rainbow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Peter Halstead

Read by Pedja Muzijevic

Talk: The Death of Shelley

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 28

By Peter Halstead

Free Will

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 243

By Will Harris

Paper Planes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Dagogo Hart

Our Bodies, Our Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 287

By Sky Hawkins

Those Winter Sundays

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Robert Hayden

Read by Roger Robinson

An Advancement of Learning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 158

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Joseph Aldous

Clearances

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 61

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Girls Bathing, Galway 1965

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 203

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marian Richardson

Mossbawn: Sunlight

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Bríd Brennan

Station Island VII (I had come to the edge of the water)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 270

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marty Rea

So Many Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 133

By Essex Hemphill

Read by Ato Blankson-Wood

To the Harbour (Ke Pelabuhan)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 269

By Toeti Heraty

Read by Khairani Barokka

Barn Owls in Suffolk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 165

By Seán Hewitt

Insurance Man 1946

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 259

By Sean Hill

Bright

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 271

By Kendel Hippolyte

Read by Anthony Vahni Capildeo

The Sandhills

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 275

By Linda Hogan

Read by CMarie Fuhrman

from Love Minus Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 213

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

Some Waynes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 135

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

ba•by

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 274

By Darrel Alejandro Holnes

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by David Bankole

The Windhover

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 74

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by Mark di Suvero

Flashback to the Cell

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Randall Horton

Singularity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 200

By Marie Howe

Tea

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 281

By Hanan Issa

Read by Charlotte Delima

Blind Boone’s Blessings

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Tyehimba Jess

Blind Boone’s Vision

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 113

By Tyehimba Jess

Oceans

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Read by Marie Howe

I Want to Die While You Love Me

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Read by Willie Perdomo

Moose Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 252

By William Johnson

Read by Sarah M. Sala

Poem for Haruko

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 223

By June Jordan

Read by Freddie MacBruce

Tilly

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 308

By James Joyce

Read by Jade Jordan

My Sister as a Body

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 83

By Kayssie K

Charcoal Iron

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Nithy Kasa

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