Mark Reads to You
A podcast started so you can hear someone else’s voice while you’re being socially distant. One poem a day, just to give you a break. Enjoy!Podcasts
Alexander: Praise Song for the Day
Published: Jan. 22, 2021, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
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Williams: Of History and Hope
Published: Jan. 21, 2021, 2:12 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
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Angelou: On the Pulse of Morning
Published: Jan. 20, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 49 seconds
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Kunitz: Passing Through
Published: Jan. 14, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Hass: The Failure of Buffalo to Levitate
Published: Jan. 12, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 33 seconds
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Week 44: US Poets Laureate, Part II
Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 35 seconds
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Sandburg: Under the Harvest Moon
Published: Jan. 8, 2021, 3 p.m.Duration: 28 seconds
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Sandburg: Caboose Thoughts
Published: Jan. 6, 2021, 2:36 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 52 seconds
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Sandburg: Accomplished Facts
Published: Jan. 4, 2021, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Church: Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus
Published: Dec. 25, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 26 seconds
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Moore: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Published: Dec. 24, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 24 seconds
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Arthur: Model-Train Display at Christmas in a Shopping Mall Food Court
Published: Dec. 23, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 59 seconds
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Rossetti: In the bleak midwinter
Published: Dec. 22, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Michelson: Elijah vs. Santa
Published: Dec. 19, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Baker: A Hanukkah Prayer for a Time of Darkness
Published: Dec. 18, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Galvin: Letters Spoken in Wind
Published: Dec. 17, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 50 seconds
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Piercy: Season of Skinny Candles
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 29 seconds
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Eady: Charlie Chaplin Impersonates a Poet
Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 38 seconds
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Swenson: The James Bond Movie
Published: Dec. 10, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 19 seconds
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Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night
Published: Dec. 5, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 55 seconds
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Herrick: To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Published: Dec. 1, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 37 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 9
Published: Nov. 28, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 14 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 8
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 23 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 7
Published: Nov. 27, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 46 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 6
Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 5
Published: Nov. 26, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 4
Published: Nov. 25, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 3
Published: Nov. 24, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 46 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 2
Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 29 seconds
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Longfellow: The Courtship of Miles Standish, Part 1
Published: Nov. 23, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 2 seconds
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Week 37: The Courtship of Miles Standish
Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
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Achebe: Knowing Robs Us
Published: Nov. 21, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Achebe: He Loves Me; He Loves Me Not
Published: Nov. 19, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 37 seconds
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Achebe: The Nigerian Census
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 9 seconds
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Achebe: A Mother in a Refugee Camp
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 51 seconds
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Rios: Copper and Oranges
Published: Nov. 9, 2020, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds
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Week 35: "State" Poets Laureate
Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 57 seconds
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Dargan: A House Divided
Published: Nov. 6, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
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O'Neil: Old South Meeting House
Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 8 seconds
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Whitman: Election Day, November, 1884
Published: Nov. 3, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
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Rios: A House Called Tomorrow
Published: Nov. 2, 2020, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
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Poe: Spirits of the Dead
Published: Oct. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 2 seconds
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Week 33: Edgar Allan Poe
Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 9 seconds
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Van Duyn: The Burning of Yellowstone
Published: Oct. 24, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
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Nemerov: To David, About His Education
Published: Oct. 21, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 50 seconds
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Wilbur: Some Words Inside of Words
Published: Oct. 20, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
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Week 32: US Poets Laureate, Part I
Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Gluck: Mother and Child
Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 1 second
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Gluck: A Myth of Devotion
Published: Oct. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
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White: How to Lie to Your Mother
Published: Oct. 8, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
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Martinez: Consider Oedipus's Father
Published: Oct. 6, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
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Week 30: Wedding Anniversary
Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Carruth: Bears at Raspberry Time
Published: Oct. 3, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
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Simonds: "There was this bearcam"
Published: Sept. 30, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
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Matthews: The Bear at the Dump
Published: Sept. 29, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 17 seconds
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Week 29: Fat Bear Week
Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Wilbur: The Beautiful Changes
Published: Sept. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 45 seconds
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Gibb: For the Chipmunk in My Yard
Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 36 seconds
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Silverstein: Sick
Published: Sept. 19, 2020, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 13 seconds
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Wagoner: My Physics Teacher
Published: Sept. 18, 2020, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 56 seconds
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Ahlberg: Please Mrs. Butler
Published: Sept. 16, 2020, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 38 seconds
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Hughes: Theme for English B
Published: Sept. 15, 2020, 2:11 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 37 seconds
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Nemerov: September, The First Day Of School
Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 2:06 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
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Espada: Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100
Published: Sept. 11, 2020, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 50 seconds
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Graham: The Day After Labor Day
Published: Sept. 8, 2020, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 29 seconds
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Hadas: The End of Summer
Published: Sept. 5, 2020, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 15 seconds
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Trowbridge: Summers Almost Gone
Published: Sept. 4, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
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Housman: [When summers end is nighing]
Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 2:06 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 11 seconds
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Dickinson: [As imperceptibly as Grief]
Published: Sept. 1, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 30 seconds
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Gioia: Finding a Box of Family Letters
Published: Aug. 29, 2020, 2:18 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
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Lindsay: The Old Mail Coach to Belton
Published: Aug. 28, 2020, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 30 seconds
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Hernandez: At the Post Office
Published: Aug. 27, 2020, 2:06 p.m.Duration: 59 seconds
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Harrison: Mailboxes in Late Winter
Published: Aug. 26, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 57 seconds
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Stanton: To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday
Published: Aug. 22, 2020, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
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Gilman: The Anti-Suffragists
Published: Aug. 21, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
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Harper: Aunt Chloes Politics
Published: Aug. 19, 2020, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 37 seconds
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Gilman: We As Women
Published: Aug. 17, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
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Frank: The Moons Magnetic Field Once Came from an Asteroid
Published: Aug. 15, 2020, 4:33 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 1 second
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Sze: Comet Hyakutake
Published: Aug. 13, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
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Rogers: Watching the Perseids
Published: Aug. 12, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 1 second
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Scruton: Watching the Comet on Easter Evening
Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 36 seconds
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Lesemann: On An Evening of Bright Meteors
Published: Aug. 10, 2020, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 51 seconds
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Teasdale: There Will Come Soft Rains
Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 2:12 p.m.Duration: 32 seconds
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Smith: Devotion : Baseball
Published: July 31, 2020, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 31 seconds
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Evans: Old Men Watching Baseball
Published: July 30, 2020, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 49 seconds
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Blackburn: 7th Game : 1960 Series
Published: July 29, 2020, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 58 seconds
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McDonough: Were Human Beings
Published: July 28, 2020, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 58 seconds
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Hilbert: AAA Vacation Guide
Published: July 24, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 42 seconds
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Allen: If You Get There Before I Do
Published: July 22, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 37 seconds
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Grotz: Self-Portrait on the Street of an Unnamed Foreign City
Published: July 21, 2020, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
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Bancquart: [Its Been Two Thousand Years Now]
Published: July 18, 2020, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 37 seconds
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Jacob: Ballad of the Country Exile
Published: July 17, 2020, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 34 seconds
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Rimbaud: A Season in Hell
Published: July 16, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
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National Assembly: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Published: July 14, 2020, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 48 seconds
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Chenier: The Young Captive
Published: July 13, 2020, 2:10 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 20 seconds
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de Gongora: Of Human Ambition
Published: July 11, 2020, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 33 seconds
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de la Fontaine: To Promise is One Thing to Keep it, Another
Published: July 8, 2020, 2:08 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 50 seconds
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Walker: For My People
Published: July 7, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 55 seconds
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Chagall: Mine Alone is the Country in My Soul
Published: July 6, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 minute
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Service: The Cremation of Sam McGee
Published: July 3, 2020, 2:36 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 43 seconds
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Bradstreet: To Her Father with Some Verses
Published: June 26, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 39 seconds
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Bottoms: Sign for My Father, Who Stressed the Bunt
Published: June 25, 2020, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 50 seconds
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Sherwood: The World in the Evening
Published: June 20, 2020, 2:18 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 7 seconds
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Youn: A Parking Lot in West Houston
Published: June 18, 2020, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 38 seconds
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Walcott: Bleeker Street, Summer
Published: June 16, 2020, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 50 seconds
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Smith: Summer of the Ladybird
Published: June 15, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 58 seconds
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Laviera: lady liberty
Published: June 13, 2020, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 27 seconds
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Brooks: Boy Breaking Glass
Published: June 12, 2020, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Villanueva: You, If No One Else
Published: June 11, 2020, 2:15 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Espada: The Sign in My Fathers Hands
Published: June 9, 2020, 2:09 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 16 seconds
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Hardy: How She Went to Ireland
Published: June 5, 2020, 2:22 p.m.Duration: 28 seconds
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Hardy: At Lulworth Cove a Century Back
Published: June 1, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 56 seconds
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Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth
Published: May 30, 2020, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 42 seconds
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Binyon: For the Fallen
Published: May 29, 2020, 4:54 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 20 seconds
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Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address
Published: May 25, 2020, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
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Week 11: Memorial Day
Published: May 24, 2020, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
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Zapruder: Graduation Day
Published: May 22, 2020, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 1 second
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Mazur: Poem for Christian, My Student
Published: May 21, 2020, 4:39 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 49 seconds
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Horton: The Graduate Leaving College
Published: May 18, 2020, 5:10 p.m.Duration: 36 seconds
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Kasdorf: What I Learned From My Mother
Published: May 16, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 1 second
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Nordhaus: A Dandelion for My Mother
Published: May 15, 2020, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 31 seconds
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Fogel: If I Sleep While My Baby Sleeps
Published: May 13, 2020, 2:15 p.m.Duration: 47 seconds
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Browning: My Last Duchess
Published: May 9, 2020, 2:03 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Whitman: Out From Behind His Mask
Published: May 2, 2020, 2:20 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
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Divakaruni: Tiger Mask Ritual
Published: April 30, 2020, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Longfellow: Paul Reveres Ride
Published: April 25, 2020, 4:22 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds
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Adams: The Divine Source of Liberty
Published: April 24, 2020, 4:53 p.m.Duration: 38 seconds
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Freneau: The American Soldier
Published: April 22, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 48 seconds
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Bradstreet: The Author to Her Book
Published: April 21, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 2 seconds
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Week 6: Patriots Day and Colonial America
Published: April 19, 2020, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
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Grimke: The Eyes of My Regret
Published: April 18, 2020, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 56 seconds
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Dickinson: Hope is the thing with feathers
Published: April 16, 2020, 2:01 p.m.Duration: 27 seconds
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Kalidasa: Look to This Day
Published: April 14, 2020, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 32 seconds
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cummings: [as freedom is a breakfastfood]
Published: April 13, 2020, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Week 5: Poems With Friends
Published: April 12, 2020, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
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Week 4: Easter and Passover
Published: April 5, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 24 seconds
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Whittier: What the Birds Said
Published: April 3, 2020, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
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Wood: Berkshires in April
Published: April 2, 2020, 3:37 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 3 seconds
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Browning: Home-Thoughts, from Abroad
Published: March 31, 2020, 2:15 p.m.Duration: 49 seconds
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Longfellow:The Building of the Ship
Published: March 28, 2020, 1:57 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
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Millay: Ragged Island
Published: March 27, 2020, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 14 seconds
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Carpenter: The Tourists
Published: March 26, 2020, 2:30 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 35 seconds
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Jewett: A Country Boy in Winter
Published: March 24, 2020, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
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Robinson: Mr. Floods Party
Published: March 23, 2020, 5:45 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 11 seconds
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Yeats: The Song of Wandering Aengus
Published: March 21, 2020, 5:16 p.m.Duration: 52 seconds
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Yeats: Easter, 1916
Published: March 19, 2020, 2:07 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Yeats: The Wild Swans at Coole
Published: March 18, 2020, 2:32 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 4 seconds
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Yeats: The Lake Isle of Inisfree
Published: March 17, 2020, 12:53 p.m.Duration: 42 seconds
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Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
Published: March 16, 2020, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
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Mark Reads to You (Trailer)
Published: March 15, 2020, 11:27 p.m.Duration: 45 seconds
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