The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

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Three Poems

Florida Baroque

The tropical verse of Ange Mlinko

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett

Five Poems
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“Where but to think is to be full of sorrow,” “Unoccupied Time,” “Still Life,” “How to Prepare,” “Ars Poetica”

From Cantares Mexicanos

Song Gatherer

The ghostly Cantares Mexicanos, as rendered by Edgar Garcia

A Quicksilver Maker

The worldly verse of Lorna Goodison

Five Poems
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April: A Sonnet

Afterlives

Five Poems
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“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Seven New Poems by Walt Whitman
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“Sometimes I Dream That I Am Not Walt Whitman,” “Let Them Say Whatever They Want,” “Returning to the Sea-Shore,” “I Hear It Is Charged Against Me,” “Like a Ghost I Returned,” and “Some Tuesdays I Go to Lisbon”

Two Poems
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“Museum of Fine Arts” and “Hatbox”

“Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Four Poems
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“On Vacation,” “Stonehenge Sandwich,” “Creazzo Alto,” and “Orvieto Classico”

Starbursts

On the poetry of Christian Wiman

Five Poems
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“Spirits,” “The Priest at the Pool Party,” “A McDonald’s in Middle America,” “Joy,” and “Land’s End”

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