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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

Tell Your Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Lebo Mashile

Read by Sasha Terfous

A January Dandelion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 208

By George Marion McClellan

Dogwood Blossoms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 07

By George Marion McClellan

Myself

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 243

By Elizabeth McFarland

Harlem Shadows

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 34

By Claude McKay

If We Must Die

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Claude McKay

The Tropics in New York

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Claude McKay

A Gift

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 167

By Andrew McMillan

A Downward Look

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By James Merrill

from The Thousand and Second Night

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 37

By James Merrill

Nightgown

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 30

By James Merrill

Upon a Second Marriage

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 48

By James Merrill

First Fig

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 129

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Sonnets

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 57

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Portrait by a Neighbor

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 112

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 172

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Untitled Sonnet IV

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 143

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Taking Out the Trash

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 244

By Kamilah Aisha Moon

Watching a Woman on the M101 Express

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By Kamilah Aisha Moon

A Jelly-Fish

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 188

By Marianne Moore

Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 195

By Marianne Moore

Contemporary American Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 57

By John Murillo

from A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 67

By John Murillo

Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 77

By John Murillo

Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 87

By John Murillo

An Evening of Russian Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 97

By Vladimir Nabokov

The Ballad of Longwood Glen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By Vladimir Nabokov

I Sit and Sew

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 22

By Alice Dunbar Nelson

Sonnet

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 29

By Alice Dunbar Nelson

You! Inez!

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 190

By Alice Dunbar Nelson

Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real?

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 51

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 115

By Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Brightening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 145

By Doireann Ní Ghríofa

The Poet

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 85

By Yone Noguchi

To an Unknown Poet

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 07

By Yone Noguchi

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