April 7, 2020
Pablo Neruda, “Keeping Still”
April 14, 2020
Jane Hirshfield, “Optimism”; Dan Albergotti, “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale”; and Eleanor Wylie, “Wild Peaches”
April 21, 2020
Dionne Brand, Thirsty; W. S. Merwin, “Thanks”; and Kei Miller, “Book of Genesis”
April 28, 2020
Thomas Centolella, “Lines of Force”; Robinson Jeffers, “Carmel Point”; and Elizabeth Alexander, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe”
May 5, 2020
Adrienne Rich, “In Those Years”; Rita Dove, “Testimony: 1968”; and Billy Collins, “Indoors”
May 13, 2020
Wallace Stevens, “Of Modern Poetry”; Wisława Szymborska, “16th May 1973”; and Tracy K. Smith, “Interrogative”
May 19, 2020
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Petition”; W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”; and Katharine Coles, “Sestina in Prose”
May 25, 2020
Patrick Anderson, “Notes from an Old Montreal Wartime”; Adrienne Rich, “Twenty-One Love Poems”; and Jericho Brown, “Crossing”
June 3, 2020
Langston Hughes, "The Bitter River"
Natasha Trethewey, "Incident"
Terrance Hayes, "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin ['I lock you in an American sonnet that is part prison']"
June 9, 2020
Jason Camlot, "After Antigone"
Avleen K. Mokha, "Work Song"
Kim Trainor, excerpt from Ledi
June 16, 2020
W.H. Auden, "Musée des Beaux Arts"
George Elliot Clarke, Exile
Jericho Brown, "Bullet Points"
Audre Lorde, "Power"
June 23, 2020
Sherley Anne Williams,"Juneteenth"
Robert Hayden, Frederick Douglass
Rabindranath Tagore, “O My Unhappy Land”