MP3 Track Listing:

1 Introduction

2 The power of poetry By Dana Gioia

3 "Jenny Kiss'd Me" by Leigh Hunt Read by Kay Ryan

4 "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats Read by Anthony Hopkins

5 "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Rita Dove

6 "Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost Read by N. Scott Momaday

7 "The Good-Morrow" by John Donne Read by David Mason

8 "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll Read by David Schwimmer

9 "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by E. E. Cummings Read by David Mason

10 "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Read by Kay Ryan

11 Conveying emotion, with excerpts from Hamlet

12 "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas Read by Alfred Molina

13 "The World Is Too Much with Us" by William Wordsworth Read by Angela Lansbury

14 "Fern Hill" by Dylan Thomas Read by Anthony Hopkins

15 Punching words

16 "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley Read by N. Scott Momaday

17 Kay Ryan remembers her grandmother

19 N. Scott Momaday remembers his parents

20 David Mason on knowing poems by heart

21 "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson Read by David Henry Hwang

22 "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats Read by Diane Thiel

23 "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost Read by Dana Gioia

24 Sonnet 55 by William Shakespeare Read by James Earl Jones

25 "When I Have Fears" by John Keats Read by Rita Dove

26 "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet Read by Alyssa Milano

27 "I think I should have loved you presently" by Edna St. Vincent Millay Read by Alyssa Milano

28 "Dream Deferred (Harlem)" by Langston Hughes Read by Khandi Alexander

29 "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman Read by Richard Rodriguez

30 From "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe Read by Khandi Alexander

31 "The Unknown Citizen" by W. H. Auden Read by Alfred Molina

32 "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson Read by David Mason

33 "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning Read by Alfred Molina

34 "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold Read by Angela Lansbury

35 "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens Read by N. Scott Momaday

36 "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died" by Emily Dickinson Read by Kay Ryan

37 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot Read by Anthony Hopkins