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Driving to Santa Fe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By Paisley Rekdal

Psalm

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 147

By Paisley Rekdal

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

Invocation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 114

By Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 113

By Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

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 As You Like It

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By William Shakespeare

from Richard III

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 150

By William Shakespeare

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Sonnet 129

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By William Shakespeare

Sonnet 64

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 181

By William Shakespeare

I Have a Time Machine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 252

By Brenda Shaughnessy

Streetlamps

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 253

By Brenda Shaughnessy

Ozymandias

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 15

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 161

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Not Waving but Drowning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 241

By Stevie Smith

Pretty

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 242

By Stevie Smith

Driving to Ottawa

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 255

By Tracy K. Smith

Sci-Fi

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 254

By Tracy K. Smith

Unrest in Baton Rouge

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 257

By Tracy K. Smith

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

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 125

By M. L. Smoker

The Weaver

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 157

By Monica Sok

The Woman Who Was Small, Not Because the World Expanded

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 167

By Monica Sok

Autumn Botany

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 159

By A. E. Stallings

The Snow Man

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 243

By Wallace Stevens

The World as Meditation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 244

By Wallace Stevens

The Dalry Road Piano Showrooms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 135

By Sarah Stewart

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

Keep me fully glad

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 259

By Rabindranath Tagore

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