A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Keener Sounds How can poetry that doesn't rhyme be so pleasing to the ear?
  Robert Pinsky Oct. 19, 2010
  
• "On Finding Bloodstains in My Notebook After a Bad Party" 
  Alan Dugan Oct. 12, 2010
  
• "Seven Octets" 
  Paul Breslin Oct. 5, 2010
  
• "Doggy Heaven" 
  Colin Pope Sept. 27, 2010
  
• "Clothesline" 
  Paula Bohince Sept. 21, 2010
  
• A Perfect Discomfit William Blake's two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper" create art by keeping us uncomfortable.
  Robert Pinsky Sept. 14, 2010
  
•  "Bats Perish, and No One Knows Why" —headline in the New York Times
  Reeves Keyworth Sept. 7, 2010
  
• "Through a Glass Darkly" 
  Traci Brimhall Aug. 31, 2010
  
• "Pocket" 
  Matthew Zapruder Aug. 24, 2010
  
• "The Self-Consumer of My Woes" The enigmatic and enduring art of John Clare, a mad pauper and brilliant poet.
  Robert Pinsky Aug. 17, 2010
  
• "Blank Villanelle" 
  Ron Spalletta Aug. 10, 2010
  
• "The Rooster King" East of the Western Fence 
  Jay Hopler Aug. 3, 2010
  
• "Milk" 
  T.R. Hummer July 27, 2010
  
• Wild Child The best poems for kids aren't the soft and saccharine ones.
  Robert Pinsky July 20, 2010
  
• "Wherever My Dead Go When I'm Not Remembering Them" 
  Alan Shapiro July 13, 2010
  
• "Wissahickon Schist" 
  Karl Kirchwey July 6, 2010
  
• "Going to Zero" 
  Peter Balakian June 29, 2010
  
• Firmness in the Write Why Abraham Lincoln's poetry is the real thing. 
  Robert Pinsky June 22, 2010
  
• "Suttee" 
  Carol Muske-Dukes June 15, 2010
  
• "The Quaintness of the Past" 
  Billy Collins June 8, 2010
  
• "Books" 
  Campbell McGrath June 1, 2010
  
• Something From Nothing Poets like John Wilmot cut their world down to size with wit—then built it up again in art.
  Robert Pinsky May 25, 2010
  
• "Dance Figure" 
  Jim Powell May 18, 2010
  
• "Sea Level" 
  Kim Van Voorhees May 11, 2010
  
• "After the Fact" 
  Mary Jo Bang May 4, 2010
  
• Old Made New Was Robert Frost a Modernist?
  Robert Pinsky April 27, 2010
  
• "Big Box Encounter" 
  Erika Meitner April 20, 2010
  
• "Generic" 
  Rachel Hadas April 13, 2010
  
• "The Day You Left // Mammogram" 
  Terri Witek April 6, 2010
  
• "The Sweet Undertaste" 
  Philip Schultz March 30, 2010
  
• "The Witch and Macduff Exit My Neighbor's House" 
  Kathryn Maris March 23, 2010
  
• Sex, Violence, and the Supernatural Before the tabloids, there were the folk ballads.
  Robert Pinsky March 16, 2010
  
• "Wait" 
  Robert Wrigley March 9, 2010
  
• "Hydrangea" 
  Rosanna Warren March 2, 2010
  
• "Oral Culture" 
  Lesley Wheeler Feb. 23, 2010
  
• "Summer of '09" D.C./Tehran 
  Andrew Hudgins Feb. 16, 2010
  
• Crazy Love A Valentine's Day poetry anthology.
  Robert Pinsky Feb. 11, 2010
  
• "Figures in a Landscape" 
  Gail Mazur Feb. 2, 2010
  
• Labor Pains Michelangelo's poem about the awkward parturition of the Sistine Chapel.
  Robert Pinsky Jan. 26, 2010
  
• "Resort" for my father
  Rafael Campo Jan. 18, 2010
  
• "Mummies To Burn" 
  Charles Harper Webb Jan. 12, 2010
  
• "Tuggin' " 
  Matt W. Miller Jan. 4, 2010