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If We Must Die

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Claude McKay

The Tropics in New York

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Claude McKay

A Gift

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 167

By Andrew McMillan

At the Sign of the White Horse

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 313

By Paula Meehan

Read by Caitríona Ennis

This is not a confessional poem

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 282

By Paula Meehan

Read by Clare Dunne

A Downward Look

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By James Merrill

from The Thousand and Second Night

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 37

By James Merrill

Nightgown

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 30

By James Merrill

Upon a Second Marriage

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 48

By James Merrill

Kites

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 231

By W. S. Merwin

Lunar Landscape

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 232

By W. S. Merwin

Rain Light

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 222

By W. S. Merwin

First Fig

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 129

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Four Sonnets

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 57

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Portrait by a Neighbor

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 112

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Sonnet IV (Only until this cigarette is ended)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 143

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Spring

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 172

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Ghazal for the Diaspora

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 268

By Faisal Mohyuddin

Read by Adeeba Shahid Talukder

Taking Out the Trash

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 244

By Kamilah Aisha Moon

Watching a Woman on the M101 Express

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 245

By Kamilah Aisha Moon

A Jelly-Fish

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 188

By Marianne Moore

Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 195

By Marianne Moore

Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 332

By Thomas Moore

Oh, no—not ev’n when first we lov’d

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 333

By Thomas Moore

Fabric Hands

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 247

By Ellen Moran

& Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 294

By Sinéad Morrissey

Read by Rachel O'Connell

Genetics

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 332

By Sinéad Morrissey

Read by Bríd Brennan

A Ruin

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By Paul Muldoon

Contemporary American Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 57

By John Murillo

from A Refusal to Mourn the Deaths, by Gunfire, of Three Men in Brooklyn

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 67

By John Murillo

Poem Ending and Beginning on Lines by Larry Levis

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 77

By John Murillo

Variation on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 87

By John Murillo

Belfast Pastoral

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 298

By Emma Must

An Evening of Russian Poetry

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 97

By Vladimir Nabokov

from "Pale Fire"

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 234

By Vladimir Nabokov

On Translating “Eugene Onegin”

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 236

By Vladimir Nabokov

The Ballad of Longwood Glen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 107

By Vladimir Nabokov

I Will Not Sing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Nādim

You City, You Boyfriend

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan

I Sit and Sew

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 22

By Alice Dunbar Nelson

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