Leigh Stein reads from her book Dispatch from the Future (Melville House, 2012), as part of the opening of the 2012 Poets House Showcase

Scott Hightower reads from his book Self-evident (Barrow Street Press, 2012), as part of the opening of the 2012 Poets House Showcase

Poet and essayist Katha Pollitt gives her thoughts on The Poetry Audience of the Future.

Poet Marilyn Hacker gives her thoughts on The Poetry Audience of the Future.

Poet Ann Lauterbach reads John Ashbery's poem “The Task.”

Prageeta Sharma reads three poems as part of Love in the Showcase: A Reading Celebrating Isn't It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets (Brett Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley, editors).

Martín Espada reads his poem "Blessed Be the Truth Tellers," and talks about its dedicatee, fellow poet Jack Agüeros, as part of his 25th Anniversary Passwords program on 20th Century Puerto Rican poetry.

Quincy Troupe reads and discusses "A Poem for Magic" as part of Quincy Troupe on the Craft of Poetry

Quincy Troupe reads and discusses "Forty-One Seconds on a Sunday in June, in Salt Lake City, Utah (for Michael Jordan)" as part of Quincy Troupe on the Craft of Poetry

Phillip Levine, 2011 US Poet Laureate, reads "By the road to the contagious hospital" by William Carlos Williams as part of the Poets House program Phillip Levine on The Path to William Carlos Williams.