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Promise

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Paradox

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 182

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Poet and His Song

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 199

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Right To Die

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 55

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

We Wear the Mask

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 209

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 278

By Paul Durcan

Read by Andrew Bennett & Rory Nolan

The Racist Bone

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Cornelius Eady

from The Waste Land

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 287

By T. S. Eliot

Read by Giannina Braschi

Omega

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 308

By Maurice English

The Flowing World

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 309

By Maurice English

The Key

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 310

By Maurice English

The Weaving

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 311

By Maurice English

Wading In

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 312

By Maurice English

What Happens is This

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 313

By Maurice English

Our Hands Like Rain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 292

By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

Women and Other Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 281

By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

I Am Draped in Heavenly Skin

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 227

By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

My First Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 228

By Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

I want to be like Frank O'Hara

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 161

By Martina Evans

So

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 237

By Martina Evans

Watch

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 238

By Martina Evans

I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 218

By Eve L. Ewing

to the notebook kid

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 219

By Eve L. Ewing

why you cannot touch my hair

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 220

By Eve L. Ewing

Read by Bella Aubin

My Grandmother Tells Me About a Famine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 239

By Annie Fan

Sonnet Which Is Not a Sonnet

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 240

By Annie Fan

What Heaney Said

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 148

By FeliSpeaks

poem to be read at the end of a year

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 269

By Bernard Ferguson

On Platforms and in Plate-Glass Waiting Rooms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 322

By Leontia Flynn

Atlas

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 143

By Jennifer Elise Foerster

Paradise

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 08

By Jennifer Elise Foerster

The Outskirts

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 18

By Jennifer Elise Foerster

Meditation on Patience

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Ariel Francisco

The Sea Can Stand Anything—I Can’t

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 144

By Ariel Francisco

A Christening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 156

By Tom French

Doña Teresa and the Chicken

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 154

By Denice Frohman

Puertopia

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 168

By Denice Frohman

Directive

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 28

By Robert Frost

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 241

By Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 38

By Robert Frost

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