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This episode is a celebration of Poem In Your Pocket Day!
- Katie read Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
- Abby read Citizen Illegal by José Olivarez
In celebration of Poem in Your Pocket Day, several JMRL staff read the following poems . All of the poems are either in the public domain or were written by the reader.
- Nina read:
- The Castled Crag of Drachenfels by Lord Byron
- Thine Eyes Still Shined by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
- I Never Saw a Moor by Emily Dickinson
- Evan read:
- The Table and the Chair by Edward Lear
- Tish read:
- The Happiest Day, The Happiest Hour by Edgar Allan Poe
- Anne-Marie read:
- The Flower at My Window by Lucian B. Watkins
- Sarah read:
- Sonnet by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
- Alan read:
- There is No Frigate Like a Book by Emily Dickinson
- At The Window by D. H. Lawrence
- Thaw by Edward Thomas
- Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Chris read:
- Philia, his own composition
- Angela read:
- The Caterpillar by Christina Rossetti
- Camille read:
- Travel by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Wendy read:
- Tim K. read:
- Hope is the Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson
- Whitney read:
- Whoosh Goes the Wind, her own composition
- Glynis read:
- My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Poet and the Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll
- Amy read:
- April, her own composition
- Wyn read:
- Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
- We Never Know How High We Are (1176) by Emily Dickinson
- Fog by Carl Sandburg
- Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Day by Emily Dickinson
- Tim C. read:
- XXXV (A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky) by Stephen Crane
- Summer in the South by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Coffee by former long-time JMRL worker Jacqueline Dempsey-Cohen
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