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Eloisa Amezcua shares her poem “Teaching My Mother English over the Phone”.

Carl Phillips reads “Effort at Speech Between Two People” by Muriel Rukeyser.

Jacqueline Woodson reads "Tobacco", from her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming.

Tiana Clark reads her poem BBHMM, responding to Rihanna's music video for Bitch Better Have My Money.

José Olivarez reads his poem “I Loved the World So I Married It”.

Sarah and Evan Gregory, of The Gregory Brothers, perform one of their favorite childhood poems by Lewis Carroll.

Sabrina Orah Mark reads her poem “The Experiments Lasted Through the Winter”.

Oliver Baez Bendorf shares his poem “Love and the Bodega”.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil reads her poem "When I’m Away From You, I Feel Like the Second-Place Winner in a Bee-Wearing Contest."

Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.