I read a section from Snooki's book over the Madden NFL '13 soundtrack. It went as expected.

from "A Shore Thing" by Nicole Polizzi read by Joshua Kleinberg

Anastasia & Sandman by Larry Levis read by Joshua Kleinberg

SLasherFLic

from THE ETERNAL CITY (2010, Princeton University Press)

"Dead Man" by Kathleen Graber

This is the Dover Thrift Edition, translated by Constance Garnett.

fr. Notes From The Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

from "Country Music: Selected Early Poems" (1982, Wesleyan University Press)

Charles Wright - "Clear Night"

Queen Elizabeth I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_to_the_Troops_at_Tilbury

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury

To His Coy Mistress

from "The Last Nostalgia: Poems 1982-1990" (1999, University of Arkansas Press)

The Story (by Joe Bolton)

Prayer (George Herbert)

John Clare (1793-1864) once said, regarding grammar, "confound the bitch--I'll never be her slave!" That doesn't really have anything to do with this poem but I wanted to tell you.

I Am (John Clare)

Richard Hugo is basically Montana's patron saint of poetry. This poem made me feel a bunch of things when I was living there.

Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg (Richard Hugo)

This is from my friend James Tadd Adcox's collection "The Map of the System of Human Knowledge." It's a funny and heartbreaking collection of encyclopedic vignettes that keeps making me cry little toddler tears and say things in a really solemn voice for a few hours after reading.

You can check Tadd out here: http://jamestaddadcox.com/
And get the book from Tiny Hardcore Press http://www.tinyhardcorepress.com/books/current-titles/the-map-of-the-system-of-human-knowledge/

History / Natural / Uniformity of Nature / History of Land and Sea (James Tadd Adcox)

Catherine Wing teaches poetry at Kent State University. This poem originally appeared in Poetry Magazine.

Evolution Song (Catherine Wing)

This poem is from Poker, Šalamun's first collection, published in Slovenian in 1966.

You can purchase an English translation of Poker from Ugly Duckling Presse here: http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/catalog/browse/item/?pubID=88

Things (Tomaž Šalamun)

This poem is from Ariana Reines's Alberta Prize-winning book, The Cow (Fence Books). You can purchase The Cow here: http://www.fenceportal.org/?page_id=235

Dear Marguerite (Ariana Reines)

Cheryl Strayed is Sugar, the former advice columnist for The Rumpus ( http://therumpus.net ). Buy "Tiny Beautiful Things," a collection of this and other letters (including a few that never ran at The Rumpus), here: http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Beautiful-Things-Advice-Sugar/dp/0307949338

Tiny Beautiful Things (Cheryl Strayed)

Using this space to share with my friends the poems that are important to me for one reason or another. If you own the rights to any of this stuff and don't want it on here, lemme know (deathbyragtime[at]gmail).

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