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From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads William Carlos Williams' poem "Dedication for a Plot of Ground."

From Slate Magazine, Rebekah Stout reads her poem "This Horse."

From Slate Magazine, David Lehman reads his poem "The Escape Artist."

From Slate Magazine, David Rivard reads Edward Thomas' poem "There's Nothing Like the Sun."

From Slate Magazine, Eric McHenry reads his poem "How to Steal the Laptop of Your Childhood Nemesis."

From Slate Magazine, Terri Witek reads her poem "Tomorrow Night, Shake Me."

From Slate Magazine, Alicia Ostriker reads Shakespeare's "Sonnet 29."

From Slate Magazine, Jeffrey Skinner reads his poem "Distant Wants."

From Slate Magazine, Dean Young reads his poem "Upon Hearing of Another Marriage Breaking Up."

From Slate Magazine, Robert Pinsky reads Robert Bridges' poem "Low Barometer."

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."