In recognition of National Poetry Month, Southeast Public Radio will air poems each weekday throughout the month of April. Poetry in the Air features a wide variety of poems, read by local poets and poetry lovers.

You can hear a new poem every weekday during Caffe Concerto (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and during Afternoon Classics (1 to 4 p.m.).

Click on the link to listen. Right-click and select "save as" to download the poem.

• "Fontanelle" by Judith Harway, read by Dale Haskell

• "Death of a Soldier" by Wallace Stevens, read by Bob Zeller

• "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop, read by Susan Swartwout

• "Wise Men in Their Bad Hours" by Robinson Jeffers, read Kyle Barnett

• "Poetry" by Pablo Neruda, read by Thomas Eaton

• "Death of a Naturalist" by Seamus Heaney, read by Dennis Holt

• "Frederick Douglass" by Robet Hayden, read by Dale Haskell

• "Testimonial" by Rita Dove, read by Mandy Henley

• "Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?" by Thomas Hardty, read by Paul Thompson

• "First Practice" by Gary Gildner, read by Thomas Eaton

• "Elegy for my father, who is not dead" by Andrew Hudgins, read by Susan Swartwout

• "Knot" by Pattiann Rogers, read by Bob Zeller

• "Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself" by Wallace Stevens, read by Dennis Holt

• "House" by Pablo Neruda, read by Kyle Barnett

• "To Dee, Dead by Her Own" by Harold Nemerov, read by Dale Haskell

• "Seaside Golf" by John Betjeman, read by Paul Thompson

• "Thanks" by Yusef Kumanyakaa, read by Thomas Eaton

• "Essay, Freshman Comp" by Maxine Kumin, read by Bob Zeller

• "Writing" by Harold Nemerov, read by Dennis Holt

• "The Workbox" by Thomas Hardty, read by Paul Thompson

• "Arabic, Jordan 1992" by Naomi Shihab Nye, read by Susan Swartwout

• "Earth Tremors Felt in Missouri" by Mona Van Dyn, read by Mandy Henley

• "Love in the Escalator" by Bob Hamblin, read by Dale Haskell

• "Aubade" by Philip Larkin, read by Kyle Barnett

• "A Blessing" by James Wright, read by Thomas Eaton

• "Grandmother's Spit" by Andrew Hudgins, read by Susan Swartwout

• "The Heart" by Stephen Crane, read by Dale Haskell

• "The Poems of Our Climate" by Wallace Stevens, read by Bob Zeller

• "The Realm of Ends" by John Koethe, read by Dennis Holt

• "A Sub-Order of Naked Buds" by Charles Bukowski, read by Kyle Barnett

• "The Washer Woman" by Veronica Volkow, read by Susan Swartwout

• "The Arrest of Oscar Wilde at the Cadogan Hotel" by John Betjeman, read by Paul Thompson

• "Reincarnation" by Wallace McRay, read by Thomas Eaton

• "My Heart Leaps Up" by William Wordsworth, read by Dale Haskell

• "Seaside Golf" by John Betjeman, read by Paul Thompson

• "Testimonial" by Rita Dove, read by Mandy Henley

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