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Read Rick Hilles's "A Visionary's Company"

Listen to Seduction's hit song "Two To Make It Right." Of the six songs on the 13-track Bodyguard soundtrack, Whitney Houston sings 6. Michelle Visage's group The S.O.U.L.S.Y.S.T.E.M. performs "It's Going to Be a Lovely Day" on the album.

Read Linda Bierds's poem "Ghost Trio"

Watch a live performance of Tori Amos's "Putting the Damage On." Check out the Tori-licious website Toriphoria, containing all things Amos.

Rita Dove's poem "Soup" is from her latest collection, Playlist for the Apocalypse and you can listen to her reading it here.

Read Jane Kenyon's poem "Three Songs at the End of Summer"

Read Robert Penn Warren's poem "Tell Me a Story." Watch Natasha Trethewey's final lecture in her 2-term Poet Laureateship, "The World of Action and Liability: On Saying What Happens," in which she contends with Penn Warren, violent and racist histories, and the role of poetry in social justice. (1 hour). Trethewey later published the text of the lecture under the title "The Quarrel With Ourselves."

Listen/watch Ani DiFranco's fabulous "Untouchable Face"

Watch Sandra Cisneros read her poem "After a Quote from My Father."

Read Darnell Arnoult's "Outrageous Love."

Check out the fabulous Brenda Shaughnessy's poem "Card 19: The Sun."