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Boland, Eavan: "That the Science of Cartography is Limited" from IN A TIME OF VIOLENCE by Eavan Boland. Copyright © 1994 by Eavan Boland. Published in Great Britain in COLLECTED POEMS by Eavan Boland. Text and reading by permission of W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. and Carcanet Press Ltd.

Brooks, Gwendolyn: "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks, text and reading is used by consent of Brooks Permissions.

Chaucer -THE CANTERBURY TALES: GENERAL PROLOGUE read by J.B. Bessinger, Jr. from THE CANTERBURY TALES. Copyright © 1967 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Used by arrangement with HarperCollins.

Dickinson, Emily: #712 "Because I could not stop for death," text and reading, by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College from THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON, Thomas H. Johnson, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Copyright © 1951, 1955, 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

Dove, Rita: "Parsley" from MUSEUM, Carnegie-Mellon University Press, © 1983 by Rita Dove. Text and reading by permission of the author.

Hughes, Langston: "The Weary Blues" from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES, copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Text and reading by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

Lee, Li-Young: "Persimmons" from ROSE by Li-Young Lee. Copyright © 1986 by Li-Young Lee. Text and reading by permission of BOA Editions Ltd.

Levertov, Denise: "Tenebrae" from POEMS 1968-1972 by Denise Levertov, copyright © 1968 by Denise Levertov. Text and reading by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Pollinger Ltd. and the proprietor. Lewis, Wyndham: "The Cubist Room" by Wyndham Lewis, © Wyndham Lewis and the estate of the late Mrs. G.A. Wyndham Lewis is used by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust (a registered charity).

Moore, Marianne: Permission for text and reading of Marianne Moore's "Poetry" [© 2003 THE POEMS OF MARIANNE MOORE, Viking/Penguin] granted by Marianne Craig Moore, Literary Executor. All rights reserved.

Rich, Adrienne: "Diving into the Wreck" from THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME: SELECTED POEMS 1950-2001 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Co., Inc. Stevens, Wallace: "Sunday Morning" from THE COLLECTED POEMS OF WALLACE STEVENS, copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens and renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by Permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., Pollinger Ltd. and the proprietor.

Thomas, Dylan: "Fern Hill" from THE POEMS OF DYLAN THOMAS, copyright © 1945 by The Trustees of the Estate of Dylan Thomas. Used by permission of David Higham and Associates on behalf of the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Read by Dylan Thomas from DYLAN THOMAS READING HIS POETRY. Copyright © 1956 by HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Used by arrangement with HarperCollins.

Walcott, Derek: "A Far Cry from Africa" from COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott. Copyright © 1986 by Derek Walcott. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC. and Faber & Faber Ltd. All rights reserved..

Williams, William Carlos: "This is Just to Say" from COLLECTED POEMS: 1909-1939, vol. 1, copyright © 1938 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Text and reading by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Carcanet Press Ltd.

Yeats, W.B.: "Easter 1916" by W.B. Yeats, text and reading, draft ms. copy of poem are used by permission of A.P. Watt Ltd. on behalf of Michael B. Yeats.