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Imaginary Exile

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 79

By Richard Blanco

Contemplations

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 150

By Anne Bradstreet

The Author to Her Book

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By Anne Bradstreet

The Flesh and the Spirit

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 185

By Anne Bradstreet

It’s a Long Way

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 222

By William Stanley Braithwaite

Sic Vita

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 223

By William Stanley Braithwaite

Turn Me to My Yellow Leaves

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 224

By William Stanley Braithwaite

Bullet Points

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 89

By Jericho Brown

Crossing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 99

By Jericho Brown

Duplex (A poem is a gesture toward home)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 109

By Jericho Brown

Stake

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By Jericho Brown

The Tradition

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 170

By Jericho Brown

Black Girl Magic

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 140

By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 16

By Mahogany L. Browne

Advice from the Lights

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 129

By Stephanie Burt

First Astronomy Globe

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 139

By Stephanie Burt

Wildflower Meadow, Medawisla

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 149

By Stephanie Burt

Names

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 151

By Mary Jean Chan

Read by Sofia Oxenham

Kumukanda

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Paapa Essiedu

Kubla Khan

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Some Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 114

By Wendy Cope

Read by Catherine Dryden

Postlude for Four Hands at the Great Organ

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 159

By Maryann Corbett

State Fair Fireworks, Labor Day

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 44

By Maryann Corbett

Heritage

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 225

By Countee Cullen

I Have a Rendezvous with Life

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 103

By Countee Cullen

To the Swimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Countee Cullen

Yet Do I Marvel

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 226

By Countee Cullen

Cities

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 35

By H.D.

Hermes of the Ways

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 183

By H.D.

Sheltered Garden

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 124

By H.D.

The Shrine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 186

By H.D.

Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 169

By Natalie Diaz

Cranes, Mafiosos, and a Polaroid Camera

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 179

By Natalie Diaz

Manhattan is a Lenape Word

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 189

By Natalie Diaz

A Bird came down the Walk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Emily Dickinson

After great pain, a formal feeling comes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 04

By Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 45

By Emily Dickinson

Before I got my eye put out

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 55

By Emily Dickinson

Denial—is the only fact

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Emily Dickinson

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