My program today is the sixth in a series of programs that present poems written by poets living in various geographic regions of the country. My five earlier programs in this series included poets from the Southwest, the South more broadly, the Midwest, the Mountain Region of the West, and the Pacific Region. Today I read poems by poets from that part of the Northeast known as the Mid-Atlantic states, principally New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  I will read poems from the third Mid-Atlantic state, New York, in my next program. Poets today are Peter Balakian, Joyce Kilmer, Alicia Ostriker, Patti Smith, Craig Czury, Kerry Shawn Keys, and Patricia Goodrich.