Poetry featured in this episode:

Ron Koertge -- "Grand Avenue"

Emily Dickinson -- "The Bee"

Eraldo Souza dos Santos -- "What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us"

Sharon Olds -- "Rite of Passage"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Ken Stafford -- "For the Bird Singing Before Dawn"

Jack Anderson -- "A Fear of Old Age"

Maggie Smith -- "This Human Life"

Lauren Brantz -- "The Long Way Home"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Ezra Pound -- "The Tree"

Richard Eberhardt -- "On a Squirrel Crossing the Road in Autumn in New England"

? -- "Being Alone"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Ross Gay -- "Throwing Children"

Danusha Lameris -- "Night Bird"

'Stephanie' -- "Growing Up"

Edward Hirsch -- "The Widening Sky"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Dana Gioia -- "Pity the Beautiful"

Sylvia Plath -- "Lady Lazarus"

Percy Bysshe Shelley -- "Ozymandias"

Unknown -- "The Moment"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Judith Viorst -- "Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About"

George Bilgere -- "Little League"

Langston Hughes -- "Luck"

Sylvia Plath -- "Mad Girl's Love Song"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Sharon Olds -- "His Stillness"

James Wright -- "A Blessing"

Ethan Coen -- "The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way"

Poetry featured in this episode:

Marilyn Singer -- "April Is a Dog's Dream"

Craig Morgan Teicher -- "How to Play This Game"

William Carlos Williams -- "This Is Just to Say"

Derek Walcott -- "Love After Love"