Disc 1. America / Walt Whitman -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree ; The song of the old mother / William Butler Yeats -- The road not taken ; Birches ; The gift outright / Robert Frost -- If I told him : a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- So & so reclining on her couch / Wallace Stevens -- The red wheelbarrow ; To Elsie / William Carlos Williams -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley [excerpt] / Ezra Pound -- Bird-witted / Marianne Moore --
Recuerdo ; Love is not all / Edna St. Vincent Millay
next to of course god america ; anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings
To Juan at the winter solstice / Robert Graves
The opening of the Battle of Gettysburg / Steven Vincent Benet
The negro speaks of rivers ; Ballad of the gypsy ; Mulatto / Langston Hughes
Portrait of the artist as a prematurely old man / Ogden Nash
Love recognized / Robert Penn Warren
King of the river / Stanley Kunitz
In memory of W.B. Yeats / W.H. Auden.
Disc 2. I knew a woman ; Elegy for Jane / Theodore Roethke -- Rough ; Thoughts during an air raid / Stephen Spender -- My sisters, o my sisters / May Sarton -- In our time ; Despisals ; The ballad of orange and grape / Muriel Rukeyser -- The world is so difficult to give up ; This is the solution, to be happy with slaughter ; Here I am with mike in hand, shooting down the rapids ; I killed a fly ; What about dying / David Ignatow -- Scars ; It is / William Stafford -- Do not go gentle into that good night ; If I were tickled by the rub of love / Dylan Thomas -- Happiness / John Ciardi --
The old flame ; Skunk hour ; Epilogue / Robert Lowell
Crossing over / William Meredith
See it was like this when ; Underwear / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The secret of my endurance / Charles Bukowski
Thanksgrieving / Howard Nemerov
Sonnet for minimalists / Mona van Duyn
Shame ; Apology ; Love calls us to the things of this world / Richard Wilbur
American haikus [excerpt] / Jack Kerouac
Monet refuses the operation / Lisa Mueller
After making love we hear footsteps ; Last gods / Galway Kinnell.
Disc 3. The river bees / W.S. Merwin -- A blessing / James Wright -- The truth the dead know ; All my pretty ones / Anne Sexton -- Phenomenal woman / Maya Angelou -- Even in Paris [excerpt] / Richard Howard -- Driving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Omeros [excerpt] / Derek Walcott -- The song of the taste ; How poetry comes to me ; Why I take good care of my Macintosh computer / Gary Snyder -- Daddy ; Ariel / Sylvia Plath --
The greatest poem in the world / David Ray
An oddly lovely day alone / John Updike
Learning about Easter and Passover / Dan Jaffe
Bang bang outishly ; Rhythim blues ; Shazam doowah / Amiri Baraka
The story of Isaac / Leonard Cohen
Putting the good things away ; Right to life / Marge Piercy
Keeping things whole ; The way it is ; The poem / Mark Strand
Zimmer imagines heaven / Paul Zimmer
Yes Lord, he was born ; Cruelty / Lucille Clifton.
Disc 4. I have had to learn to live with my face / Diane Wakoski -- Dear John, dear Coltrane / Michael S. Harper -- We were so poor ; I was stolen by the gypsies ; Everybody knows the story / Charles Simic -- Lester leaps in ; For poets ; A dance for militant diletantes / Al Young -- Odysseus to Telemachus / Joseph Brodsky -- Ode to my shoes / Erica Jong -- Prayer ; Translator's son / Joseph Bruchac -- Wonder / Sharon Olds -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- One kiss / Tess Gallagher -- The tent people of Beverly Hills / James Ragan -- Uh oh plutonium / Anne Waldman -- The fine printing on the label of a bottle of non-alcohol beer ; The sweat lodge / Adrian Louis --
Logan Heights & the world / Juan Felipe Herrera
The colonel / Carolyn Forche
Wild gratitude / Edward Hirsch
For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash / Joy Harjo
Tia Sophia / Carmen Tafolla
This is number 26 ; I am offering you this poem / Jimmy Santiago Baca
Raisin eyes / Luci Tapahonso
The children's undercroft / Donald Revell
The concrete river ; Tia Chuca / Luis Rodriguez
My father, in heaven, is reading out loud / Li-Young Lee.
