My program today is part two of my consideration of 50, some of its significances, and some of its presentations. In today’s program, I present poems of mine written during the five decades – the fifty years – that I have been writing and publishing poetry and which are acknowledged in my next book – Collected Poems 1970-2020 – which is coming in March from Lamar University Literary Press. I begin with a poem published 50 years ago in the Yale Literary Magazine, when I was a twenty-year-old undergraduate, and continue by reading a poem from each of the decades that followed: from the 1980s, the 90s, the 2000s, and the 2000-teens.