Five minutes of poetry and introspection every weekday.

In the library:

  1. The Raincoat (2019) – Ada Limón and Tracy K. Smith

  2. To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self (2019) – Brenda Shaughnessy and Tracy K. Smith

  3. Walking Home (2019) – Jay Udall and Tracy K. Smith

  4. Origin Stories (2019) – Safia Elhillo and Tracy K. Smith

  5. Wind (2019) – James Fenton and Tracy K. Smith

  6. Trans is Against Nostalgia (2019) – Taylor Johnson and Tracy K. Smith

  7. Bored (2019) – Margaret Atwood and Tracy K. Smith

  8. A Room of Her Own (2019) – Ming De and Tracy K. Smith

  9. Ozymandias (2019) – Percy Bysshe Shelley and Tracy K. Smith

    Featured in the course, " The Practice of Buddhism"

  10. To the Woman at the United Airlines Check-in Desk at Newark (2019) – Nick Laird and Tracy K. Smith

  11. Our Valley (2019) – Philip Levine and Tracy K. Smith

  12. Spring Morning (2019) – A. A. Milne and Tracy K. Smith

  13. The Boatman (2021) – Carolyn Forché and Tracy K. Smith

  14. A Room at Last (2019) – Ko Un and Tracy K. Smith

  15. Failure (2019) – Eugene Gloria and Tracy K. Smith

  16. World Word (2019) – Eamon Grennan and Tracy K. Smith

  17. Staying Alive (2019) – David Wagoner and Tracy K. Smith

  18. A world’s too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me (2019) – Connie Voisine and Tracy K. Smith

  19. Workshop (2021) – Jacob Shores-Argüello and Tracy K. Smith

  20. Cindy Comes to Hear Me Read (2019) – Jill McDonough and Tracy K. Smith

  21. Tide Pool (2019) – John Balaban and Tracy K. Smith

  22. Frequently Asked Questions #7 (2019) – Camille T. Dungy and Tracy K. Smith

  23. Morning (2019) – Adam Zagajewski and Tracy K. Smith

  24. Remember (2020) – Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith

  25. The Clock (2020) – Victoria Chang and Tracy K. Smith

  26. Weight (2020) – John Freeman and Tracy K. Smith

  27. Swimming in the Rain (2021) – Chana Bloch and Tracy K. Smith

  28. Telling My Father (2021) – James Crews and Tracy K. Smith

  29. Wake Up (2020) – Carl Phillips and Tracy K. Smith

  30. Essay on Reentry (2020) – Reginald Dwayne Betts and Tracy K. Smith

  31. A Year Dot (2020) – dg nanouk okpik and Jenny Xie

  32. Northeast Corridor (2020) – Cat Richardson and Tracy K. Smith

  33. Lincoln Town Car (2020) – Taylor Johnson and Jenny Xie

  34. Meditation on a Grapefruit (2020) – Craig Arnold and Jenny Xie

  35. Talent (2020) – Layli Long Soldier and Tracy K. Smith

  36. Song for the Festival (2020) – Gretchen Marquette and Tracy K. Smith

  37. Wedding Poem (2020) – Ross Gay and Tracy K. Smith

  38. Once in a Lifetime, Snow (2020) – Les Murray and Tracy K. Smith

  39. December (2020) – Cecily Parks and Tracy K. Smith

  40. Basic Needs (2020) – Vanessa Jimenez Gabb and Tracy K. Smith

  41. Mebble (2020) – Taije Silverman and Tracy K. Smith

  42. A Mother’s Mouth Illuminated (2020) – Threa Almontaser and Tracy K. Smith

  43. For the Woman on Main Street Stopping to Pull Up Her Pantyhose (2020) – Kristene Kaye Brown and Tracy K. Smith

  44. (First Trimester) (2020) – Craig Santos Perez and Tracy K. Smith

  45. Tyranny of the Human Face (2020) – Chase Berggrun and Tracy K. Smith

  46. To be of use (2020) – Marge Piercy and Tracy K. Smith

  47. AQUÍ HAY TODO, MIJA (2020) – Alexis Aceves Garcia and Tracy K. Smith

  48. Reports of the Dream You’re Not Likely to Recover From (2020) – Jay Deshpande and Tracy K. Smith

  49. Pigeon and Hawk (2020) – Marilyn Nelson and Tracy K. Smith

  50. i woke up and the day caught me (2021) – Kara Jackson and Tracy K. Smith

  51. Leaving Tulsa (2020) – Jennifer Elise Foerster and Tracy K. Smith

  52. At the Arcade I Paint Your Footprints (2021) – Steven Espada Dawson and Ada Limón

  53. Rehearsal For The New World (2021) – Hazem Fahmy and Ada Limón

  54. To Offer Sweet Fruit to the Ghost (2021) – John Paul Martinez and Ada Limón

  55. They’ll Ask You Where it Hurts the Most (2021) – Kwame Opoku-Duku and Ada Limón

  56. Rabbits and Fire (2021) – Alberto Ríos and Ada Limón

  57. Declassified (2021) – Mai Der Vang and Ada Limón

  58. Full Moon (2021) – Elinor Wylie and Ada Limón

  59. Little Grey Dreams (2021) – Angelina Weld Grimké and Ada Limón

  60. The Hummingbird (2021) – Blas Falconer and Ada Limón

  61. Tangerine Peel (2021) – Mary Ruefle and Ada Limón

  62. Besaydoo (2021) – Yalie Saweda Kamara and Ada Limón

  63. Golden Age (2021) – Chris Santiago and Ada Limón

  64. Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood (2021) – Erin Rodoni and Ada Limón

  65. Monday (2021) – Alex Dimitrov and Ada Limón

  66. My Empire (2021) – Kaveh Akbar and Ada Limón

  67. Marte (2022) – Gustavo Hernandez and Ada Limón

  68. Poem that Leaves Behind the Ocean (2022) – Jim Moore and Ada Limón

  69. flight training (2022) – Shayla Lawz and Ada Limón

  70. Places With Terrible Wi-Fi (2022) – J. Estanislao Lopez and Ada Limón

  71. The Wrong Question More Than Once (2022) – Matt Donovan and Ada Limón

  72. Self Portrait with Woman on the Subway (2022) – Hayan Charara and Ada Limón

  73. Halfway (2022) – Paula Mendoza and Ada Limón

  74. Every Mourning (2022) – Michael Kleber-Diggs and Ada Limón

  75. How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now (2022) – Dana Levin and Ada Limón

  76. In the Bad Days (2022) – Kevin Prufer and Ada Limón

  77. Old Growth (2022) – Natasha Rao and Ada Limón

  78. Prayer Beginning with a Line by Czaykowski (2022) – Pablo Piñero Stillmann and Ada Limón

  79. Metro North (2022) – Jason Barry and Ada Limón

  80. Now That You’ve Met God, Where to Go From Here (2022) – Anthony Aguero and Ada Limón

  81. Lament (2022) – Barbara Leyes and Ada Limón

  82. Blueberries for Cal (2022) – Brenda Shaughnessy and Ada Limón

  83. [chiasmus with all the other animals] (2022) – Brenda Hillman and Ada Limón

  84. The Years That The Days and Months Turned Into (2022) – Shafer Hall and Ada Limón

  85. I Have a Randezvous With Life (2022) – Countee Cullen and Ada Limón

  86. The Wealth (2022) – Bianca Stone and Ada Limón

  87. Other Women’s Babies (2022) – Rachel Long and Ada Limón

  88. Pastoral (2022) – Djuna Barnes and Ada Limón

  89. Morning Freight (2022) – Sophia Terazawa and Ada Limón

  90. Juneteenth, 2020 (2022) – Mariama J. Lockington and Ada Limón

  91. Summer Sorrow (2022) – Leonora Speyer and Ada Limón

  92. Slow Drag with Branches of Pine (2022) – Ama Codjoe and Ada Limón

  93. A Thousand Cardinals (2022) – Julian Randall and Ada Limón

  94. The Bats (2022) – Mark Wunderlich and Ada Limón

  95. A Personality Test (2022) – Maureen Thorson and Ada Limón

  96. I Dream of Horses Eating Cops (2022) – Joshua Jennifer Espinoza and Ada Limón

  97. Ghazal for Dogeaters (2022) – Danni Quintos and Ada Limón

  98. A Study of Beauty (2022) – Patrick Rosal and Shira Erlichman

  99. List of Things to Say Instead of “I’m Fine” (2022) – Marlin M. Jenkins and Shira Erlichman

  100. Songs For The People (2022) – Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Ada Limón

  101. Gitanjali 60 (2022) – Rabindranath Tagore and Ada Limón

  102. John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash (2022) – Robert Hass and Ada Limón

  103. Children Listen (2022) – Roger Reeves and Ada Limón

  104. Fragment (Stone) (2023) – Ann Lauterbach and Major Jackson

  105. The Freeways Considered as Earth Gods (2023) – Dana Gioia and Major Jackson

  106. How (2023) – Heid E. Erdrich and Major Jackson

  107. The Truth (2023) – Natasha Rao and Jason Schneiderman

  108. A Ruin (2023) – Paul Muldoon and Major Jackson

  109. Famous (2023) – Naomi Shihab Nye and Shira Erlichman