From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem “No Worst, There Is None. Pitched Past Pitch of Grief.”

From Slate Magazine, Angie Estes reads her poem "History."

From Slate Magazine, Alan Michael Parker reads his poem "After Love."

A recording of what is rumored to be Walt Whitman reading "America."

From Slate Magazine, Gail Mazur reads her poem "Late at Night."

From Slate Magazine, Josh Kalscheur reads his poem "Creation Myth."

From Slate Magazine, Nan Cohen reads her poem "The Fear of the Dark."

From Slate Magazine, Duy Doan reads his poem "History Lesson From Anh Hai."

From Slate Magazine, Mark Halliday reads Thomas Hardy's poem "Beyond the Last Lamp."

From Slate Magazine, Traci Brimhall reads her poem "If Marriage Is a Duel at 10 Paces."