From Slate Magazine, Carol Muske-Dukes reads her poem "Addicts."

From Slate Magazine, Mark Halliday reads his poem "Slightly Tearful."

From Slate Magazine, Charles Harper Webb reads his poem "The Sound That Wakes Me at Night, Thinking of It."

From Slate Magazine, Christian Wiman reads his poem "It Takes Particular Clicks."

From Slate Magazine, Emma Jones reads her poem "Paradise."

From Slate Magazine, Frank Bidart reads his poem "Inauguration Day."

From Slate Magazine, Diane Mehta reads her poem "Morning of the Monsoon."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads "The Darkling Thrush," by Thomas Hardy

From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads his poem "The Unwritten History of Prose."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads "A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall," by Robert Herrick.