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The City Kids See the Sea

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 259

By Roger Robinson

Arrancaba las flores y se las comía / Tearing Out and Eating Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 249

By Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

Monk Style

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 184

By Kay Ryan

Read by Pedja Muzijevic

Malecón/Miami

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 265

By Leslie Sainz

Hydrogen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 238

By Sarah M. Sala

Shimmer

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By James Schuyler

Read by Padraig Regan

Even the Gods

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Nicole Sealey

Segue

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 230

By Stephen Sexton

The Burdens

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By Stephen Sexton

from Richard III

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 150

By William Shakespeare

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Sonnet 60

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 306

By William Shakespeare

Read by Simon Callow

The Sky

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Natalie Shapero

Read by Cecilia Knapp

From the Confinement

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 93

By Evgeny Shtorn

Drunktown

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 212

By Jake Skeets

king the color of space/tower of molasses & marrow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 262

By Danez Smith

Read by Ato Blankson-Wood

An Ode to Tony MacMahon's Den

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 298

By Stephen James Smith

Another Attempt at Rescue

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 240

By M. L. Smoker

The Book of the Missing, Murdered and Indigenous – Chapter 1

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 125

By M. L. Smoker

For Mac

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 312

By Jack Spicer

Read by CAConrad

When We Speak of Our Mothers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 258

By Degna Stone

My Friends

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Arundhathi Subramaniam

Read by Degna Stone

from "Was It for This"

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 299

By Hannah Sullivan

Queens

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 188

By J. M. Synge

Read by Seán Hewitt

Over Wine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 194

By Wisława Szymborska

Read by Mark di Suvero

January 9th, 2008

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 268

By Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Identity.

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 88

By Sasha Terfous

Onion Poem

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 249

By Jessica Traynor

Archangel

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 302

By Jean Valentine

Read by Leslie Sainz

Sea-Grapes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 213

By Derek Walcott

Read by Darrel Alejandro Holnes

The Last Cricket of the Season

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 309

By Eamonn Wall

Read by Siobhán Campbell

Peach Season

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 262

By Dawn Watson

This Is Just to Say (the Gays Will Steal Your Fruit)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Dawn Watson

Saints, Sinners and Survivors

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By WeAreGriot

Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 236

By James Welch

Read by M. L. Smoker

from The Book of Space

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 251

By Suzanne Wise

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By William Wordsworth

Read by Lydia-May Cooney

A Blessing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By James Wright

Read by Campbell McGrath

They Flee from Me

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 183

By Thomas Wyatt

Read by Martina Evans

Chinatown Diptych

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 271

By Jenny Xie

Dangerous Things

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 192

By Tiphanie Yanique

Read by Selina Nwulu

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