From Slate Magazine, T.R. Hummer reads Vachel Lindsay's poem "Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket."

From Slate Magazine, Alan Williamson reads his poem "No. 1 Piazzetta Calamandrei."

From Slate Magazine, Brenda Shaughnessy reads her poem "Inappropriate Dreams."

From Slate Magazine, Daniel Bosch reads his poem "Dream."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Walter Raleigh's poem "Nature, That Washed Her Hands in Milk"

From Slate Magazine, Chard deNiord reads his poem "Augustine's Pears."

From Slate Magazine, Patrick Phillips reads his poem "Alan the Plumber."

From Slate Magazine, Tomás Q. Morin reads his poem "Flea Circus."

From Slate Magazine, Poetry Editor Robert Pinsky reads William Butler Yeats' "On Being Asked for a War Poem."

From Slate Magazine, Joe Wilkins reads his poem "The Gospel According to Kelly, Night-Shift Manager, Forest City Fuel & Foods."