My program today is the fifth in a series of programs that present poems written by poets living in various geographic regions of the country. My four earlier programs in this series included poets from the Southwest, the South more broadly, the Midwest, and the Mountain Region of the West. Today I read poems by poets from that part of the West known as the Pacific Region, which includes the states of Alaska, Oregon, Washington, California, and Hawaii. They are Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Jewel, Meliza Bañales, Garrett Hongo, and Clarissa Mendiola.