Michaela Coplen
“Redeployment” by Michael Coplem

Drew Nieporent
“Counterman” by Paul Violi
“In Memory of Radio” by Amiri Baraka

Parker Posey
“Characteristics of Life” by Camille T. Dungy
“Sci-Fi” by Tracy K. Smith

Esperanza Spalding
“The Goose Fish” by Howard Nemerov
“Untitled [I talk to my inner lover]” by Kabir, trans. Robert Bly
“Life is Fine” by Langston Hughes

Patrick Stewart
“The Word” by Tony Hoagland
“Jaws” by Carl Sandburg
“God’s World” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Rosie Perez
“Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou
“The Bean Eater” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Tina Fey
“The Secret” by Denise Levertov
“The List of Famous Hats” by James Tate

Carrie Mae Weems
“cutting greens” by Lucille Clifton
“The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes
“A Table in the Wilderness” by Li-Young Lee

Kevin Kline
“To My Favorite 17-Year-Old High School Girl” by Billy Collins
“The Trouble with Poetry” by Billy Collins

Billy Crudup
“Believing in Iron” by Yusef Komunyakaa
“Gospel” by Philip Levine

Julianna Margulies
“When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver
“Happiness” by Jane Kenyon

Meryl Streep
“The Writer” by Richard Wilbur
“Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath