From Slate Magazine, Rosanna Warren reads her poem "Hydrangea."

From Slate Magazine, Lesley Wheeler reads her poem "Oral Culture."

From Slate Magazine, Andrew Hudgins reads his poem "Summer of '09."

From Slate Magazine, Gail Mazur reads her poem "Figures in a Landscape."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads Michelangelo's poem "When the Author Was Painting the Vault of the Sistine Chapel."

From Slate Magazine, Rafael Campo reads his poem "Resort."

From Slate Magazine, Matt W. Miller reads his poem "Tuggin'."

From Slate Magazine, Henri Cole reads his poem "Asleep in Jesus at Rest."

From Slate Magazine, Mira Rosenthal reads her poem "Morphine."

From Slate Magazine, Henri Cole reads his poem "Dead Mother."