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This Be the Verse

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 263

By Philip Larkin

Cinderella

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Tia Laurent

Read by Cathy Halstead

Heart

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Dorianne Laux

Life Is Beautiful

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 131

By Dorianne Laux

Moon in the Window

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 178

By Dorianne Laux

From Blossoms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 293

By Li-Young Lee

Read by Rachel Bower

Six O’Clock News

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 97

By Tom Leonard

In California During the Gulf War

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 322

By Denise Levertov

The Metier of Blossoming

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 324

By Denise Levertov

How To Triumph Like a Girl

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 73

By Ada Limón

I Remember the Carrots

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 41

By Ada Limón

Instructions on Not Giving Up

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 226

By Ada Limón

The Conditional

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 227

By Ada Limón

We Manage Most When We Manage Small

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 319

By Linda Gregg

Read by Yanyi

Hospital Through a Teleidoscope

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Celeste Lipkes

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

Chick

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 79

By Hannah Lowe

Players

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 325

By Hannah Lowe

Reggae Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 206

By Hannah Lowe

Yellow River, Milk River

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 22

By Hannah Lowe

Dreams in War Time

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 159

By Amy Lowell

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 74

By Amy Lowell

The Weather-Cock Points South

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Amy Lowell

There is no Life or Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By Mina Loy

Read by Suzanne Wise

from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 242

By Hugh MacDiarmid

The Coming of the Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 326

By Agnes Maule Machar

An Eternity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By Archibald MacLeish

Ars Poetica

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Archibald MacLeish

Read by Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

Calypso's Island

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 39

By Archibald MacLeish

Poem in Prose

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 188

By Archibald MacLeish

The Old Man to the Lizard

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 106

By Archibald MacLeish

The Rape of the Swan

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 51

By Archibald MacLeish

The Snowflake Which Is Now and Hence Forever

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 198

By Archibald MacLeish

The Two Priests

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 66

By Archibald MacLeish

They Come No More, Those Words, Those Finches

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 84

By Archibald MacLeish

Thunderhead

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 33

By Archibald MacLeish

What Any Lover Learns

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 49

By Archibald MacLeish

A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 274

By Derek Mahon

Read by Brian Doherty

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