Introduction The Power of Poetry By Dana Gioia “Fire and Ice” By Robert Frost Read by N. Scott Momaday “We Wear the Mask” By Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Rita Dove Conveying emotion, with excerpts from Hamlet Punching words Kay Ryan remembers her grandmother N. Scott Momaday remembers his parents David Mason on knowing poems by heart “Hope is the thing with feathers” By Emily Dickinson Read by David Henry Hwang “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Read by Dana Gioia “To My Dear and Loving Husband” By Anne Bradstreet Read by Alyssa Milano “I Hear America Singing” By Walt Whitman Read by Richard Rodriguez From “Annabel Lee” By Edgar Allan Poe Read by Khandi Alexander Credits
