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Thomas Lux — Refrigerator, 1957

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Maria Dahvana Headley — Beowulf

Michael Klein — Swale

Ray Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis

Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border

Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS

Carl Dennis — Breath

Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self

Ofelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition

Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt

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Conor Kerr — Winter Songs

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Eugenia Leigh — How the Dung Beetle Finds Its Way Home

Poetry Unbound — Season 8 Trailer

Clint Smith with Krista Tippett — What We Know in the "Marrow of Our Bones"

BONUS: Truth-seeking and the Symphony of Language with Henri Cole

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Maya C. Popa — They Are Building a Hospital

Jenny Mitchell — A Man in Love with Plants

Vidyan Ravinthiran — Artist

Mark Turcotte — Dear New Blood

Wo Chan — the smiley barista remembers my name

Amanda Gunn — Ordinary Sugar

J. Estanislao Lopez — Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter

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Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe — Blue

Charif Shanahan — Present Moment

Brenda Cárdenas — This Is Why

Nithy Kasa — Blouse

Selina Nwulu — Replay

John Lee Clark — Self Portrait

Kay Ulanday Barrett — Pantoum for recital when my mom said, don’t let them see you cry

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On Poetry and Patronage: An Invitation to Love Us

Benjamin Gucciardi — The Rungs

Rowan Ricardo Phillips — Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same

Alexander Posey — The Dew and the Bird

José Olivarez — No Time to Wait

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Poetry Unbound — Season 7 Trailer

Ada Limón with Krista Tippett — “To Be Made Whole”

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Dan Vera — Norse Saga

Solmaz Sharif — Self-Care

Dunya Mikhail — Eva Whose Shadow Is a Swan

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Kevin Goodan — We give…

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Stephanie Burt — Prayer for Werewolves

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Caroline Bird — Little Children

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Divya Victor — First Petition

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Rita Dove — Eurydice, Turning

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Craig Santos Perez — Rings of Fire

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Yehoshua November — 2AM, and the Rabbinical Students Stand in their Bathrobes

Aria Aber — The Only Cab Service of Farmington, Maine

Donika Kelly — In the Chapel of St. Mary’s

Linda Hogan — Song for the Turtles of the Gulf

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No’u Revilla — Smoke Screen

Jake Skeets — Daybreak

Tishani Doshi — Species

Jason Allen-Paisant — Right now I’m Standing

Jacob Shores-Argüello — Make Believe

Margaret Atwood — All Bread

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Katie Manning — What to Expect

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Margaret Noodin — Gimaazinibii’amoon (A Message to You)

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Martín Espada — After the Goose that Rose Like the God of Geese

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Matthew Olzmann — Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

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Eavan Boland — Eviction

Jónína Kirton — Reconciliation

Lorna Goodison — Reporting Back to Queen Isabella

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Poetry Unbound — Season 3 Trailer

Christian Wiman — All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs

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Chen Chen — I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

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Aracelis Girmay — Consider the Hands that Write this Letter

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Paul Tran — The Cave

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Leanne O'Sullivan — Leaving Early

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Emily Dickinson — 1383

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