A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• "The Darkling Thrush" Thomas Hardy's timely meditation on the turning of an era.
  Robert Pinsky Dec. 30, 2008
  
• "A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall" Robert Herrick's yuletide tribute to the lush pleasures of spring.
  Robert Pinsky Dec. 23, 2008
  
• "Sewage Has Its Say" 
  Steven Cramer Dec. 15, 2008
  
• "Wedding" 
  Rachel Hadas Dec. 8, 2008
  
• "Haydn Leaves London" August 1795
  Rita Dove Dec. 2, 2008
  
• "The White Skunk" 
  David Ferry Nov. 25, 2008
  
• "Omaha Beach" 
  Piotr Florczyk Nov. 18, 2008
  
• "There Was a Man of Double Deed" The unhinged reason of an anonymous classic.
  Robert Pinsky Nov. 11, 2008
  
• "Upon Hearing a 2-Year-Old's First Attempts at an Elvis Impression, I Recall the Difficulties of Her Birth" 
  John Hodgen Nov. 4, 2008
  
• "Ach, Wien" 1803
  Rita Dove Oct. 28, 2008
  
• The Slate Poetry Podcast Your favorite poets read their work to you.
  Oct. 28, 2008
  
• "Reading Faulkner at 17, You Foresee Your Reckoning" 
  Catherine Pierce Oct. 21, 2008
  
• "Spring Comes to Ohio" 
  Joseph Campana Oct. 14, 2008
  
• "On Love, on Grief" Why Walter Savage Landor's classic epigram is a lesson in economy.
  Robert Pinsky Oct. 7, 2008
  
• "The Crying Hill" 
  Yusef Komunyakaa Sept. 30, 2008
  
• "Though Your Sins Be Scarlet" 
  David Biespiel Sept. 23, 2008
  
• "Lord Forgive Me" 
  Kathryn Maris Sept. 16, 2008
  
• "Winter Accident" 
  Laura Polley Sept. 9, 2008
  
• "Walking in Fog" 
  Barry Goldensohn Sept. 2, 2008
  
• "Yom Kippur" 
  Philip Schultz Aug. 26, 2008
  
• "Hermit" 
  Gail Mazur Aug. 19, 2008
  
• "A Bristle of Wings in the Ivy" 
  Teresa Cader Aug. 12, 2008
  
• "The Intention of Things" 
  David Ferry Aug. 5, 2008
  
• "Swifts" 
  Dan Chiasson July 29, 2008
  
• "Siren" 
  Paul Breslin July 22, 2008
  
• "Visiting the Real Ranch" —for Oscar
  Sally Ball July 15, 2008
  
• "In the Fourth Grade" 
  Charles Grosel July 8, 2008
  
• "When in the Uterine Empyrean They Told Me" 
  Patrick Donnelly July 1, 2008
  
• "Confinement" 
  Tony Hoagland June 24, 2008
  
• "Watch" 
  Eamon Grennan June 17, 2008
  
• "Blue" 
  Peter Balakian June 10, 2008
  
• "The Names" 
  Joe Wilkins June 3, 2008
  
• "Memory" 
  Judith Harris May 27, 2008
  
• "Just a Tranquil Darker" 
  John Hodgen May 20, 2008
  
• "The Story of the Father" 
  Tony Hoagland May 13, 2008
  
• "A Place in Maine" 
  Sherod Santos May 6, 2008
  
• "Abundance" 
  James Longenbach April 29, 2008
  
• "Harmless Poem" 
  Stuart Dischell April 22, 2008
  
• "[The line between heaven and earth]" 
  Michael McGriff April 15, 2008
  
• "Triumph" 
  Alan Shapiro April 8, 2008
  
• "Oh Blessed Season" 
  Chris Forhan April 1, 2008
  
• "Houseflies" 
  Kevin Barents March 25, 2008
  
• "planting daffodils" 
  Charlotte Boulay March 18, 2008
  
• "For D." 
  Rosanna Warren March 11, 2008
  
• "Acorns" 
  Linda Pastan March 4, 2008
  
• "The Room" 
  Michael Chitwood Feb. 26, 2008
  
• "Richard Noel" 
  Harry Thomas Feb. 19, 2008
  
• "Losing My Hair" 
  Wesley McNair Feb. 5, 2008
  
• "Body of Book" 
  Rachel Hadas Jan. 29, 2008
  
• "Food Lion, Winchester, Tennessee" 
  Joe Osterhaus Jan. 22, 2008
  
• "My Young Mother" Elvera Ryan (1911-2006)
  Michael Ryan Jan. 15, 2008
  
• "Recording" 
  Tom Sleigh Jan. 8, 2008