On a balmy California Sunday, hundreds of people gathered outdoors for the final Favorite Poem event during National Poetry Month.

Many readers stepped up to the mike and shared their connections to specific poems—poems by Auden and Frost, Lorca and Langston Hughes. Local poet Carol Muske discovered a poetry lover in Mayor Richard Riordan, in actor Edward James Olmos, in a sitcom writer, a metal sculptor and a computer engineer.

The reading, sponsored by The Los Angeles Times, The Library of Congress and the Los Angeles Public Library was among the most popular venues at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books.

	This Is Just to Say William Carlos Williams and Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams Kenneth Koch Read by Lawrence Broch SureStream audio (both poems)		Puedo Escribir Los Versos (Tonight I Can Write) Pablo Neruda, translated by W.S. Merwin Read by Cynthia Rios SureStream audio (both poems)
	Untitled Tanka ["The lower leaves of the trees"] Sone No Yoshitada, translated by Kenneth Rexroth Read by Kiyoshi Houston SureStream audio