Track List:

1-1    Alfred Lord Tennyson–    The Charge Of The Light Brigade
1-2    Alfred Lord Tennyson–    Come Into The Garden, Maud
1-3    Robert Browning–    How They Brought The Good News From Ghent To Aix (Excerpt)
1-4    Walt Whitman–    America
1-5    William Butler Yeats–    The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
1-6    William Butler Yeats–    The Song Of The Old Mother
1-7    Edgar Lee Masters–    Lucinda Matlock
1-8    Edgar Lee Masters–    Emily Sparks
1-9    James Weldon Johnson–    The Creation
1-10    Gertrude Stein–    If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait Of Picasso
1-11    Robert Frost–    The Road Not Taken
1-12    Robert Frost–    Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
1-13    Carl Sandburg–    From The People, Yes (#90)
1-14    Wallace Stevens–    So And So Reclining On Her Couch
1-15    William Carlos Williams–    The Red Wheelbarrow
1-16    William Carlos Williams–    To Elsie
1-17    Ezra Pound–    Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
1-18    Hilda Doolittle–    Helen In Egypt
1-19    T. S. Eliot–    Journey Of The Magi
1-20    Edna St. Vincent Millay–    Recuerdo
1-21    Edna St. Vincent Millay–    Love Is Not All
1-22    Dorothy Parker–    Résumé
1-23    Dorothy Parker–    The Lady's Reward
1-24    E. E. Cummings–    As Freedom Is A Breakfastfood
1-25    Robert Graves–    To Juan At The Winter Solstice
1-26    Stephen Vincent Benét–    John Brown's Body
1-27    Sterling Brown–    Strong Men
1-28    Langston Hughes–    The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
1-29    Langston Hughes–    The Weary Blues
1-30    Ogden Nash–    Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man
1-31    Stanley Kunitz–    King Of The River
1-32    W. H. Auden–    The Cave Of Nakedness
1-33    Theodore Roethke–    I Knew A Woman
1-34    Theodore Roethke–    Elegy For Jane
1-35    Elizabeth Bishop*–    Late Air
1-36    Elizabeth Bishop*–    The Fish
2-1    Robert Hayden–    Those Winter Sundays
2-2    Muriel Rukeyser–    The Ballad Of Orange And Grape
2-3    Muriel Rukeyser–    To Be A Jew In The Twentieth Century
2-4    John Berryman (2)–    #23 (The Lay Of Ike)
2-5    John Berryman (2)–    #36 (The High Ones Die...)
2-6    David Ignatow–    The World Is So Difficult To Give Up...
2-7    David Ignatow–    This Is The Solution, To Be Happy With Slaughter...
2-8    David Ignatow–    Here I Am With Mike In Hand, Shooting Down The Rapids...
2-9    David Ignatow–    I Killed A Fly...
2-10    David Ignatow–    What About Dying?...
2-11    William Stafford–    Passing Remark
2-12    William Stafford–    Serving With Gideon
2-13    Dylan Thomas–    And Death Shall Have No Dominion
2-14    Dylan Thomas–    The Tombstone Told When She Died
2-15    Gwendolyn Brooks–    The Mother
2-16    Gwendolyn Brooks–    We Real Cool
2-17    Robert Lowell–    Skunk Hour
2-18    William Meredith–    Crossing Over
2-19    Lawrence Ferlinghetti–    See It Was Like This When...
2-20    Lawrence Ferlinghetti–    Underwear
2-21    Charles Bukowski–    The Secret Of My Endurance
2-22    Hayden Carruth–    Ray
2-23    Richard Wilbur–    Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
2-24    Jack Kerouac With Al Cohn & Zoot Simms*–    American Haikus
2-25    Denise Levertov–    Death Psalm: O Lord Of Mysteries
2-26    Lisel Mueller–    Monet Refuses The Operation
2-27    Maxine Kumin–    Woodchucks
2-28    Allen Ginsberg–    America
2-29    A.R. Ammons–    Still
2-30    John Ashbery–    My Philosophy Of Life
2-31    Galway Kinnell–    After Making Love We Hear Footsteps
2-32    Galway Kinnell–    Last Gods
2-33    James Wright (3)–    A Blessing
2-34    Anne Sexton–    All My Pretty Ones
2-35    Anne Sexton–    For My Lover, Returning To His Wife
3-1    Richard Howard (7)–    Even In Paris
3-2    Adrienne Rich–    Diving Into The Wreck
3-3    Ted Hughes–    Lovesong
3-4    Derek Walcott–    Omeros
3-5    Gary Snyder–    The Song Of The Taste
3-6    Gary Snyder–    Why I Take Good Care Of My Macintosh Computer
3-7    Etheridge Knight–    The Idea Of Ancestry
3-8    Sylvia Plath–    Daddy
3-9    David Ray (6)–    The Greatest Poem In The World
3-10    John Updike–    An Oddly Lovely Day Alone
3-11    Amiri Baraka–    Bang, Bang Outishly
3-12    Amiri Baraka–    Rhythim Blues
3-13    Amiri Baraka–    Shazam Doowah
3-14    Audre Lorde–    Dahomey
3-15    Marge Piercy–    Right To Life
3-16    Mark Strand–    The Poem
3-17    Paul Zimmer (3)–    Zimmer Imagines Heaven
3-18    Lucille Clifton–    Cruelty. Don't Talk To Me About Cruelty
3-19    Diane Wakoski–    I Have Had To Learn To Live With My Face
3-20    Charles Simic–    We Were So Poor...
3-21    Charles Simic–    I Was Stolen By The Gypsies...
3-22    Charles Simic–    Everybody Knows The Story...
3-23    Seamus Heaney–    Death Of A Naturalist
3-24    Al Young (2)–    Lester Leaps In
3-25    Al Young (2)–    A Dance For Militant Dilettantes
3-26    Gloria Vando–    Fire
3-27    Joseph Brodsky*–    Odysseus To Telemachus
3-28    Simon J. Ortiz*–    Sometimes It's Better To Laugh 'Honest Injun'
3-29    Erica Jong–    Ode To My Shoes
4-1    Sharon Olds–    Wonder
4-2    James Tate (2)–    The Lost Pilot
4-3    Pedro Pietri–    Puerto Rican Obituary
4-4    Anne Waldman–    Uh Oh Plutonium
4-5    Adrian Louis–    The Fine Printing On The Label Of A Bottle Of Non-Alcohol Beer
4-6    Adrian Louis–    The Sweat Lodge
4-7    Yusef Komunyakaa–    Facing It
4-8    Juan Felipe Herrera–    Logan Heights And The World
4-9    Carolyn Forché–    The Colonel
4-10    Peter Balakian–    The History Of America
4-11    Joy Harjo–    Grace
4-12    Rita Dove–    Parsley
4-13    Vijay Seshadri–    The Long Meadow
4-14    Marilyn Chin–    The Floral Apron
4-15    Luci Tapahonso–    Raisin Eyes
4-16    Luis Rodriguez*–    The Concrete River
4-17    Li-Young Lee–    My Father, In Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud
4-18    Elise Paschen–    Two Standards
4-19    Deborah Garrison–    I Saw You Walking
4-20    Elizabeth Alexander–    The Female Seer Will Burn Upon This Pyre
4-21    Elizabeth Alexander–    After The Gig: Mick Jagger
4-22    D.A. Powell–    [Morning Broke On My Cabin Inverted, Tempest In My Forehead]
4-23    Carl Hancock Rux–    Eleven More Days
4-24    John Poch–    Simon Peter
4-25    Suji Kwock Kim–    Fragments Of The Forgotten War
4-26    Kevin Prufer–    Lucky Criminals
4-27    Kevin Young (6)–    The Slaughter
4-28    Jonathan Lamfers–    Scab