Featured poet, Anis Mojgani

Closer- Anis Mojgani

Doin’ the Louvre- Patricia Smith

I think I could be a Poet- Taylor Mali

Oppression- Ben Harper

Invincible- Anis Mojgani

How to be a Lecherous Little Black Man and Make Lots of Money- Patricia Smith

Voice of America (Voice Over)- Taylor Mali

Muzzle- The Smashing Pumpkins

To the Sixth Grade Class at Lilly C. Evans Elementary School in Dade County, Miami- Patiricia Smith

What Teachers Make- Taylor Mali

Dirty Harry- The Gorillaz

Shake the Dust- Anis Mojgani

How Water Cornbread- Patricia Smith

For Health and Strength- Taylor Mali

Green (With a Chance of Grey)- Emily Breaux

Featured poet, Carrie Jerrell

After Sex- Xochiquetzal Candelaria

Safe Harbor- Tina Pisco

Squeal Like a Pig- Thorpe Moeckel

Charter- Adam Vines

The Manassa Mauler- Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Al Dente Perfecto- Matthew Lippman

I Wil Love the 21st Century- Tina Chang

Edison in Love- Robin Ekiss

Bass Line- Betsy Sholl

Jimi Hendrix Postcard- Adrian Matejka

A Fence Line Running Through it- Curtis Bauer

Cold War- Maria Hummel

Hippocamus- Sean Nevin

Iowa- Rick Barot

Ode to Inspiration- Campbell McGrath

The Way Dean Young Talks about Wine- Tony Hoagland

Big Daddy- Carrie Jerrell

Natasha in a Mellow Mood- Tib Seibles

Gaydar- R. Erica Doyle

The Barrel is Surely Coming Down the Hill- Gillian Kiley

A House Like a Ship- Helene Cardona

Like Lizards- Matthew Lippman

The Past Described as a Figure- Mark Conway

Featured poet, Anya Silver

Canticle of the Washing Machine- Anya Silver

Filling Station- Elizabeth Bishop (read by Beth Gylys)

Sexually Explicit Lyrics, Ash Wednesday- Anya Silver

Violin Concerto No. 3 in D Major- Berliner Philharoniker

Toward the Empty Earth- Ossip Mandelstam (read by Jean Valentine)

Two Riddles- Charles Simic

Mary- Anya Silver

Etude in E Major, Op. 110 No. 3- Alexis Weissenberg

One Art- Elizabeth Bishop (read by Katie Chaple)

Persimmon- Anya Silver

Sonnets to Orpheus (no. 3)- Ranier Maria Rilke

Late Wake for a Lost Child- Anya Silver

In Dulci Jubilo- King’s College Choir

The Name of God- Anya Silver

Strick Quartet No. 14 in D Minor- Alban Berg Quartett

New Dress- Anya Silver

Letter to Myself in Remission from Myself, Terminal- Anya Silver

Stage Four- Anya Silver

Leaving the Hospital- Anya Silver

The 93rd Name of God, Yanoor, Oh Light- Anya Silver

Featured poet, Adam Vines

Herald- Mary Noonan

White Wolf- Carey Salerno

X-Ray Pastoral- Cori A. Winrock

The Shoes of Buddy Katsuda- Rick Noguchi

Look- Patrick Phillips

Hot Chocolate- Leslie McGrath

Setback- The Constellations

Magpie- Ilyse Kusnetz

Metaphor- Major Jackson

Underwhelmed- Jeffrey Thomson

Charter- Adam Vines

Almost Clean- Adam Vines

Burying the Dead- Adam Vines

Higher than Hell- The Sleepy Jackson

At the Zoo- Mary Noonan

Fragments with Dusk in Them- Chris Dombrowski

God Machine on Judgement- Maria Hummel

Emaciation- Kyle Dargan

Grief Street- Anne Shaw

Loggers- John Struloeff

Mama’s Work- Santee Frazier

Pastoral- David Roderick

A Murmation of Starlings- Jake Adam York

Jan Doesn’t Like it- Of Montreal

Piazza di Spagna: Keats Departing- Austin Segrest

Oblivio Gate- Sean Nevin

The Birds- Maggie Sawkins

Origin and Ash- Tina Chang

Highlighted poet, Emily Dickinson.

From the Book of Jubilation- Travis Denton

A Prayer for my People- Matthew Shenoda

Gardener’s Prayer- Gabriel Welsch

Themes of Power and Praise- Redblossom

Each Moment a White Bull Steps into the World- Jane Hirshfeld

The Lamb- William Blake (read by Michael Sheen)

The Tyger- William Blake (read by Michael Sheen)

Peregrine Falcon, New York City- Robert Cording

Saint Francis and the Sow- Galway Kennell

Habit- Jane Hirshfeld

I’ll Be There Til the End- Redblossom

From the Eclipse of the Moon- T’ung (read by James Barraclough)

Anniversaries- Megan Sexton

God-Particles- Thomas Lux

Three Views of a Cock- Robert Morea (read by K.B. Kincer)

Blood of Eden- Peter Gabriel

Easter Sunday- Katie Fesuk

Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church- Emily Dickinson

Penance: West Virginia- Gabriel Welsch

Devil’s Radio- George Harrison

Chorus of Spirits- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (read by Prunella Scales)

Of All the Souls That Stand Create- Emily Dickinson (read by Gayle Hunnicutt)

A Slumber did my Spirit Seal- William Wordsworth (read by Jasper Britton)

The Rape of Saint Maria Goretti- Monica Burchfield

Saint Thecla- Gerard Manly Hopkins (read by Whitney House)

Recommissioned- Austin Segrest

Weighing LIght- Geoffrey Brock

Lord, We Praise You- Redblossom

God’s Grandeur- Gerard Manly Hopkins (read by Paul Schmidt)

Highlighted poet, Dana Levin.

Ars Poetica Blues- Sebastian Matthews

Ars Poetica- Lee Herrick

To the Sixth Grade Class at Lilly C. Evans Elementary School in Dade County Miami- Patricia Smith

Ars Poetica- Orlando White

One Train May Hide Another- Kenneth Koch

Poetry and Aeroplanes- Teitur

The Pier Aspiring- Thomas Lux

Ars Poetica- Dana Levin

Ars Poetica- Catherine Barnett

Ars Poetica with Pain- Jeffrey Thomson

Ars Poetica- Emmy Perez

Sonnet- The Decemberists

Ars Poetica after a Dog- Patrick Rosal

I Think I could be a Poet- Taylor Mali

At the Poetry Reading- Ken Cormier

Defense of Poetry- Charles Bernstein

Poetry Man- Phoebe Snow

This Poetry- Jon Pineda

Ars Poetica- Czeslaw Milosz

Highlighted poet, Haiku master, Matsuo Basho

Harsh Climate- Charles Simic

The North Slope- Leon Stokesbury

Two Hour Delay- Gabriel Welsch

A Song of a Young Lady to her Ancient Lover- Janet Suzman

Those Winter Sundays- Robert Hayden

Inscription for an Old Bed- William Morris (read by David Pepper)

The Trouble with Snowmen- Roger McGough

Logs on the Hearth- Thomas Hardy (read by James Barraclough)

Winter (From Love’s Labour’s Lost)- William Shakespeare (read by Hazel Pardon)

Under Ice- Kate Bush

Barrel Roll- Austin Segrest

Praising the Snake- Ross Gay

In Memory of W.B. Yeats- W.H. Auden

Crossing Over- William Meredith

Still Life- Fady Joudah

Cleopatra’s Bra- Chad Davidson

Not Fire, Not Ice- Ben Haper & The Innocent Criminals

We Bathed in a Hot Spring- Matsuo Basho

Her Lover, Gone to Buy a Drink, Perhaps- Andrew Kozma

A Drowning- Katie Chaple

On the Disadvantages of Central Heating- Amy Clampitt

That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire- Gerard Manley Hopkins

Animals in the City- Michelle Rozga

Annunciation- Monica Burchfield

Global Warming- Jane Hirshfeld

Song with Thirteen Ibis- Susan Mitchell

Villanelle- Campbell McGrath

I Saw you Heater Man- Beth Gylys

Fire Ghazal- Kevin A. Gonzalez

As Kingfishers Catch Fire- Gerard Manley Hopkins (read by Cheryl Stiles)

The Sweat Lodge- Adrian Louis

On Fire- Phoenix

Highlighted poet, Jake Adam York.

McDonald’s, Scottsboro, April 1997- Anthony Walton

Ballad of Bertie County- Evie Shockley

Sherman’s March Snaked through the South- Stacey Lynn Brown

A Fact which Occured in America- James Allen Hall

This Little Light of Mine- Joss Stone & Buick Audra

Onlookers with the Burned Body of Jesse Washington, 18-Year-Old African American, Waco, Texas, 1916- Steve Scafidi

Ode to Rosa Parks- Steve Scafidi

The Preachers Eat Out- Camille Dungy

The Tao of the Trial- Marilyn Nelson

God’s Work- Mike Dockins

A Murmuration of Starlings- Jake Adam York

Homochitto- Jake Adam York

I Believe- Johnny Lang & Fisk Jubilee Singers

Service Station, Tennessee- Camille Dungy

Tu Do Street- Yusef Komunyakaa

Star-Fix- Marilyn Nelson

Passing- Carl Phillips

The Negro Speaks of Rivers- Langston Hughes

I Thought Slavery was a Song- Frank X Walker

Oh Happy Day- Queen Latifah & Jubilation

Summit Beach, 1921- Rita Dove

Highlighted poet, Terrance Hayes.

To Blackness- Lynne Thompson

Some Instructions on Black Masculinity Offered to my Black Friend by the White Woman he Briefly Dated, a Monologue- Ross Gay

At the Alpha Phi Alpha Ball- Camille T. Dungy

Alabama- John Coltrane

When Black People Are- A.B. Spellman

A Poem about Intelligence for my Brothers and Sisters- June Jordan

What I Am- Terrance Hayes

Broken Earth- Terrance Hayes

Slavery Days- Burning Spear

The Avacado- Terrance Hayes

The Blue Seuss- Terrance Hayes

Duck Duck Redux- Evie Shockley

Strange Fruit- Billie Holiday 

For my Childhood Friend Derek who First Told me I could Call Him Nigger- Patrick Rosal

Steven- Patricia Smith

The Change- Tony Hoagland (read by Nick Flynn)

Open Letter: A Dialogue on Race and Poetry- Claudia Rankine

Dear Claudia: A Letter in Response- Tony Hoagland (read by Claudia Rankine)

“Clasping cold fingers
we would eye the hybrid lives of the zoo–
feather-toed hens, dwarf donkeys, kangaroo rats–
and dream a stampede of roaring ghost animals
in the Tiergarten on the run from the trains.”

-Mary Noonan from “At the Zoo”

Animal Acts- Charles Simic

Afternoons- Camille Yvette-Welsch

Inside the Dog- Tina Chang

Prodigal Dog- Mary Crockett Hill

Ars Poetica after a Dog- Patrick Rosal

The Half Tail of Winchester- Taylor Mali

I Want a Dog- Pet Shop Boys

Signs of Winter- Ron Bloomfield (read by John Clare)

Stuffed- Beth Gylys

Late Twentieth Century in the Form of Litany- Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Charmed- Yusef Komunyakaa

Sigmund Freud Writes a Postcard…- Megan Sexton

Cardinal Virtue- Nicky Beer

Habit- Jane Hirshfeld

A Love Supreme- Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Asking for More- Sarah Manguso

At the Zoo- Mary Noonan

The Lion Sleeps Tonight- The Kingston Trio

Fetal, Skeletal- Robert Pfeiffer

The Tyger- William Blake (read by Michael Sheen)

Polar Bear- Leon Stokesbury

Crazy Jane Meets a Bear- Jane Hilberry

A Hunger so Honed- Tracy K. Smith

Pastoral- David Roderick

And Dream of Sheep- Kate Bush

The Lamb- William Blake (read by Michael Sheen)

Shooting Turtles- Sarah Wetzel