From Kenney's terrific collection "The One-Strand River," Knopf, 2008.

"Air Sublime" by "Richard Kenney" read by Mischa Willett

Read a copy of the poem here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174395

"Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici" by "Percy Bysshe Shelley" read by Mischa Willett

From "Keep this Forever"
Tupelo Press, 2008

"Refusal to Notice Beautiful Women" by "Mark Halliday" read by Mischa Willett

"Ode to Hangover" by "Dean Young" read by Mischa Willett

"Fern Hill" by "Dylan Thomas" read by Mischa Willett

"Beauty" by "Stephen Dobyns" read by Mischa Willett

Archived episode. An early love of mine, this.

"Cypriot" by "Rosanna Warren" read by Mischa Willett

From the "Odes to Common Things" book, trans Ferris Cook and Ken Krabbenhoft.

"Ode to a Watch at Night," by "Pablo Neruda" read by Mischa Willett

A poem from Stephen Dunn's excellent book "Lines of Defense" (Norton, 2014). 
You can contact me, make requests/comments, on twitter @poemsforpeople. 
Opening music is "Juliet's Dream" composed by my friend Jon Steinmeier. 

"Nothing To Hold Onto" By "Stephen Dunn" Read By "Mischa Willett" - 5:24:16, 1.58 PM

Richard Wilbur's "Advice to a Prophet" is his greatest poem. I feel like this must be a repeat of a poem that I've read here before and lost the file because otherwise, how have I not got around to it before now? The recording quality bothers me (sorry about that). I was experimenting with new spaces and tech and I very nearly didn't post it because of that. But better a dome in Florence, they say, than a cathedral in the clouds.  

"Advice To A Prophet" by "Richard Wilbur" read by Mischa Willett

Byron's beautiful brooding vision of the end of the world, available in any edition of his works. 
Drop a line on twitter @PoemsforPeople if you'd like to say hello or make recommendations.

"Darkness" by "Lord Byron" read by "Mischa Willett"

From the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize winner, this meditation on meaning, resurrection, and immigration that playfully bounces between Star Wars and the biblical prophet Samuel.

"Endor (Disambiguation)" by "Hannah Faith Notess" read by Mischa Willett

A poem about the bravery necessary to the artistic endeavor via c19 whaling practices. Featured in Jeremiah Webster's new book "After So Many Fires," available on Anchor and Plume Press.

"Right Whale Luminary" by "Jeremiah Webster" read by Mischa Willett

This is a reading of "Ocean of Storms," the first section of PHASES (Cascade Books, 2017), read by the author.

Phases

"Ocean of Storms" from "Phases" by "Mischa Willett"

From Jennifer Maier's "Dark Alphabet" on Southern Illinois University Press, a book I recommend without reservation. Those long, interruptive clauses, the doubling, the gratitude!

"In a Power Outage" by "Jennifer Maier" read by Mischa Willett

"A Grasshopper" by "Richard Wilbur" read by Mischa Willett

Guest Reader: "Lauren Camp" reading poems from "One Hundred Hungers"

Donald Hall's elegy for dead horses, but also for a gone way of life, for appreciation, exposes the brutality of all utilitarianism.

"Names Of Horses" by "Donald Hall" read by Mischa Willett

Readings of poems classical and contemporary, selected and performed by Mischa Willett, author of PHASES.

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