My program today is about 1968. It was a year marked by astonishing and unforgettable and brutally painful events, in this country and across the world. It was a year in which so many of us thought that the world, as we knew it, was coming to an end. 2020 has been compared by some to 1968. There are differences. I read poems by Adrienne Rich, Rita Dove, Margaret Walker, Geoffrey Hill, Sharon Olds, W.H. Auden, and John Lennon/Paul McCartney. I end the program with one of my own poems.