Lucille Clifton
"we are running" 00:05-00:30

Amiri Baraka
"Monday in B Flat" 00:43-00:53

Coleman Barks
interview segment 01:13-01:26

Kurtis Lamkin
interview segment 02:01-02:11
"jump mama" 02:13-04:50

Stanley Kunitz
interview segment 04:59-05:15

Jane Hirshfield
"The Poet" 05:17-06:31
interview segment 06:40-07:52
"The Envoy" 07:53-09:10
interview segment 09:14-09:52

Mark Doty
"Messiah (Christmas Portions)" 11:06-15:00

Lucille Clifton
"adam thinking" 16:00-16:35
"eve thinking" 16:38-17:10

Mark Doty
interview segment 17:17-17:45
"New Dog" 18:00-20:25
interview segment 20:40-21:56
"Golden Retrievals" 22:50-24:03

Mark Doty and Lucille Clifton
dialogue 24:13-24:45

Lucille Clifton
"won't you celebrate with me" 24:45-25:28

Robert Pinsky
interview segment 25:36-27:24
"To Television" 27:24-29:32
interview segment 29:39-30:25
Q & A with students 30:26-31:05

Joe Weil
from "Painting the Christmas Trees" 31:27-31:54

James Haba
interview segment 31:55-32:24

David Gonzalez
"Cross Bronx Expressway" 32:25-33:39

Amiri Baraka
interview segment 33:40-34:10
"Wise, Why's, Y'z (Africa Section)" 34:11-35:56
interview segment 35:58-36:33
"Wise, Why's, Y'z (Africa Section)" 36:34-38:37

Marge Piercy
interview segment 38:55-39:20
from "The chuppah" 39:22-41:09

Stanley Kunitz
"The Round" 42:18-44:05
interview segment 44:16-45:02
"Halley's Comet" 45:19-47:35
"Touch Me" 47:45-49:50

Kurtis Lamkin
"those crazy beach girls" (improvised version)
49:52-53:17

Marge Piercy
from "What are big girls made of?"
56:06-57:35
interview segment 53:23-53:40 and 55:15-56:03
from "What are big girls made of?" 56:06-57:35
interview segment 57:42-58:36
from "For strong women" 58:40-59:47

Coleman Barks
from "Today, like every other day" 1:00:00-1:00:21
interview segment 1:00:50-1:01:27
"Jars of Spring Water" 1:02:35-1:04:25
"Little Miss Muffett" (by Briny Barks) 1:04:57-1:05:07
interview segment 1:05:42-1:06:12
"Justice" 1:05:23-1:05:41
from "New Year's Day Nap" 1:06:15-1:07:34
interview segment 1:07:34-1:08:23

Robert Pinsky
"ABC" 1:08:36-1:09:13
interview segment 1:09:20-1:10:18

Bob Holman
from "Rock 'n Roll Mythology" 1:10:19-1:10:34

Denise Duhamel
from "Kinky" 1:10:35-1:10:55

Samuel Menashe
"Salt and Pepper" 1:10:58-1:11:20

James Haba
interview segment 1:11:24-1:11:50

Deborah Garrison
"Please Fire Me" 1:11:58-1:12:43
interview segment 1:12:48-1:13:32
"An Idle Thought" 1:13:34-1:15:00

Lucille Clifton
"oh absalom my son my son"
1:15:35-1:16:09

Sharon Olds
"The Clasp" 1:16:13-1:17:40

Mark Doty
interview segment 1:17:49-1:18:33

W.S. Merwin
"Yesterday" 1:18:35-1:20:20

Galway Kinnell
"After Making Love We Hear Footsteps" 1:20:28-1:21:51

Paul Muldoon
interview segment 1:21:57-1:22:26
"Symposium" 1:23:10-1:24:45
interview segment 1:24:48-1:25:27
"The Sightseers" 1:27:51-1:29:10

Kurtis Lamkin
"yo body" 1:29:11-1:30:16
interview segment 1:30:16-1:31:02
"yo body" 1:31:03-1:32:06
interview segment 1:32:08-1:33:05
"the million man march" 1:33:10-1:35:43

Stanley Kunitz
interview segment 1:35:49-1:36:24

Lorna Dee Cervantes
"Summer Ends Too Soon" 1:37:01-1:38:10
interview segment 1:38:15-1:39:15
"Poet's Progress" 1:39:16-1:42:18

Shirley Geok-lin Lim
"Riding into California" 1:42:40-1:43:44
interview segment 1:43:50-1:44:30
"Pantoun for Chinese Women" 1:45:33-1:47:58
interview segment 1:48:02-1:48:38

Coleman Barks
from "Where Everything Is Music" 1:48:41-1:49:43
interview segment 1:49:45-1:51:10
"I See My Beauty in You" 1:51:14-1:54:06