ident Al Gore on poetry and the environment Robert Frost biographer Jay Parini with Harvard students on trauma (filmed in Vermont) Alfre Woodard on Gwendolyn Brooks and rebellion Senator John McCain on love and loyalty to comrades (filmed in Washington DC) Katie Couric on grief and self-control NBA athletes Sha

R. Ammons • John Ashbery • Margaret Atwood • W. H. Auden • Charles Baudelaire • Samuel Beckett • Elizabeth Bishop • William Blake • Eavan Boland • Gwendolyn Brooks • Robert Browning • Julia de Burgos • Paul Celan • E. E. Cummings • Emily Dickinson • John Donne • S. Eliot • David Ferry • Robert Ernst • Allen