A weekly poem, read by the author.

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• Demon 
  Tom Sleigh Dec. 31, 1998
  
• Revenant 
  Rita Dove Dec. 24, 1998
  
• Vita Nova 
  Louise Glück Dec. 17, 1998
  
• "The Tragic Sense of Life" 
  Karl Kirchwey Dec. 10, 1998
  
• Virtue 
  George Herbert Dec. 3, 1998
  
• Lit in Passing Lit in Passing
  W.S. Merwin Nov. 26, 1998
  
• Hallway Hallway
  Alan Shapiro Nov. 19, 1998
  
• Gesture, Possibly Archaic Gesture, Possibly Archaic
  Carl Phillips Nov. 12, 1998
  
• Pennsylvania Bio Pennsylvania Bio
  Gerald Stern Nov. 5, 1998
  
• Her Waltz 
  Lloyd Schwartz Oct. 29, 1998
  
• The Mother Tongue 
  Eavan Boland Oct. 22, 1998
  
• Edward Edward
  Honor Moore Oct. 15, 1998
  
• Poems 
  Gail Mazur Oct. 8, 1998
  
• Memorandum Memorandum
  W.S. Merwin Oct. 1, 1998
  
• I Am I Am
  John Clare Sept. 24, 1998
  
• The Open Grave 
  Louise Glück Sept. 17, 1998
  
• Against Self-Pity Against Self-Pity
  Rita Dove Sept. 10, 1998
  
• Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts
  Mark Halliday Sept. 3, 1998
  
• Turn, Counterturn, Stand Turn, Counterturn, Stand
  Stanley Plumly Aug. 20, 1998
  
• The Swimmer The Swimmer
  Michael Collier Aug. 13, 1998
  
• Forsythia At the Hill School guest house in Pottstown, Pa.
  Gerald Stern Aug. 6, 1998
  
• Daughter 
  Eavan Boland July 23, 1998
  
• What I Know What I Know
  David Rivard July 16, 1998
  
• Grievers Grievers
  Stanley Plumly July 9, 1998
  
• Dante, Purgatory: Canto XI Dante, Purgatory: Canto XI
  W.S. Merwin July 2, 1998
  
• The Darkling Thrush The Darkling Thrush
  Thomas Hardy June 25, 1998
  
• Biopsy 
  C.K. Williams June 18, 1998
  
• The Haunted Ruin 
  Robert Pinsky June 11, 1998
  
• Oeuvre, Spirulina, Mugwomp Oeuvre, Spirulina, Mugwomp
  Teresa Cader June 4, 1998
  
• Madonna and Child 
  Rafael Campo May 29, 1998
  
• Day Lilies 
  Rosanna Warren May 21, 1998
  
• Millay's Echoes Millay's Echoes
  Robert Creeley May 14, 1998
  
• Meditation on a Line From Whitman Meditation on a Line From Whitman
  Don Bogen May 7, 1998
  
• Summer of Ninety-Seven Summer of Ninety-Seven
  Gary Snyder April 30, 1998
  
• Night Class Night Class
  Andrew Hudgins April 23, 1998
  
• Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb Augusto Jandolo: On Excavating an Etruscan Tomb
  Tom Sleigh April 16, 1998
  
• Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy Theory
  Lynne McMahon April 9, 1998
  
• Marriage: Six Primers 
  David Gewanter April 2, 1998
  
• Old Joke Old Joke
  Alan Shapiro March 26, 1998
  
• Tea With the Local Saint (for Jane Garmey)
  J.D. McClatchy March 19, 1998
  
• Gossip Gossip
  Thom Gunn March 12, 1998
  
• Last Hike Before Leaving Montana Last Hike Before Leaving Montana
  Patricia Traxler March 5, 1998
  
• Bat Ode (Downtown Columbus, rush hour)
  Jeredith Merrin Feb. 26, 1998
  
• Ode to Coal Ode to Coal
  Steve Orlen Feb. 19, 1998
  
• Marooned in Dallas Marooned in Dallas
  Joyce Carol Oates Feb. 12, 1998
  
• Elegy on the Death of Sidney 
  Feb. 5, 1998
  
• 443 (“I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl”) 443 ("I tie my Hat--I crease my Shawl")
  Anonymous Jan. 29, 1998
  
• The Night, the Porch The Night, the Porch
  Mark Strand Jan. 22, 1998
  
• Adam's Curse 
  William Butler Yeats Jan. 15, 1998
  
• Spring Elegy (For Frank Vincent, my student, who died of AIDS March 17, 1997)
  Sherod Santos Jan. 8, 1998
  
• Epigram 16 Epigram 16
  J.V. Cunningham Jan. 1, 1998