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in which I hypnotise a tiger

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 286

By Khairani Barokka

Syllogisms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 220

By Charles Baudelaire

Fantasy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Gwendolyn Bennett

Nocturne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Gwendolyn Bennett

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 177

By Joshua Bennett

Read by Samuel Yakura

Owed to the Durag

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Joshua Bennett

The Republic of Motherhood

Arles 2018 4322

By Liz Berry

Dive Bar

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 241

By Caroline Bird

Read by Ellen Moran

One Art

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 275

By Elizabeth Bishop

Read by John Murillo

Wellspring: Words from Water

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 272

By Kimberly M. Blaeser

A Poison Tree

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 231

By William Blake

Read by Patrick Fusco

Auguries of Innocence

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 100

By William Blake

The Sick Rose

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By William Blake

To Autumn

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 211

By William Blake

Cityscape

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 217

By Eavan Boland

How We Were Transfigured

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 218

By Eavan Boland

That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 219

By Eavan Boland

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Eavan Boland

Read by Jade Jordan

Water Birth

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 261

By Rachel Bower

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

If You Knew

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 220

By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

Sonnets from the Cherokee (I)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Ruth Muskrat Bronson

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

Canción de las Mujeres: Some Uses for the Moon

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Rafael Campo

Read by Sean Hill

Here we are, aging together, just like we said we would

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 222

By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

One Geography of Belonging

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 223

By Kayleb Rae Candrilli

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